Risk Management – Robotic UAV Aircraft Sharing the Airspace

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Someday in your lifetime, you will most likely fly on an airliner without a pilot, and for sure during your lifetime the piloted aircraft you are in will be sharing the same airspace with a robotic unmanned aerial system, or UAS, or UAV. Scared yet Well, you probably shouldn’t be, but I bet there are many aviation sector risk management professionals who are right now, I know I would be.

In fact, there was an interesting bill which just got passed in the House of Representatives in Washington DC which would allow the FAA to approve UAV testing areas, and these same areas would also have manned or piloted aircraft in them. One of the first ones is scheduled to be in Dayton OH, and another one in Maryland, also slated are Utah, and California as well. Why you ask Easy, it is estimated that unmanned robotic aircraft industry is set to become a 15 Billion Dollar industry, and these companies need places to test their aircraft. » Read more: Risk Management – Robotic UAV Aircraft Sharing the Airspace

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Updates On The Air Force AH-1Z And UH-1Y Aircraft

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This is the expert opinion of Lt. Colonel A major survivability upgrade to the AH-1ZUH-1Y aircraft, currently in the latter stages of developmental flight test here, made its first flights this week at the Bell Helicopter XworX facility in Texas. The upgrade, consisting of an integrated engine exhaust management system that then turns the hot exhaust gases out and away from the aircraft’s tail boom, quickly followed Monday’s ground run accomplishment by expanding the flight envelope from hover to 120 knots Tuesday.

The flight consisted of a six-minute hover, explained Marine Lt. Colonel David J. Anderson, the H-1 program’s assistant program manager for Systems Engineering, followed by an over-night teardown and inspection. Tuesday, after the Bell team put everything back together, we took it up to 120 knots. Bell’s Advance Programs unit has been exploring ways to improve survivability of the Cobra for several years, developing a solution by managing the exhaust flow and integrating off-the-shelf components, then turning the exhaust away from the helicopter’s tail boom. » Read more: Updates On The Air Force AH-1Z And UH-1Y Aircraft

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