Sky is spending $1m (£757,000) to bring live drone racing to UK viewers. The satellite broadcaster is making the investment in the Drone Racing League (DRL) to bring competitive flying to its new Sky Sports Mix channel. The league specialises in "first person-view" drone racing, which features pi...
The 'Shahid Nazeri' is a new, long-range catamaran. But it's mostly for show. How, exactly, can a smaller nation compete militarily with a superpower? For Iran, whose relationship with the United States has vacillated between outright hostility to at most lukewarm diplomacy since the overthrow of...
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Tiangong-2 will be home to two astronauts for 30 days In 2011, Congress ruled that China is not allowed on the International Space Station because of "national security" concerns. Undeterred, the People's Republic decided to build its own. Tiangong-1, which launched in 2011, was the first step in...
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Drone Delivery Canada Announces New Flight Achievements
// Aero-News Network
GPS-Guided Payload Pickup And Drop-Off Capability Successfully Achieved Drone Delivery Canada CSE – FLT, says it has advanced its commercial testing, and reports it has achieved positive results on its payload pickup and drop off capabilities utilizing its proprietary semi-autonomous autopilot system which enables automated take off, landings, waypoint navigation and pre-programmed maneuvers to occur.
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NASA backs X-plane development of twin-hull Aurora D8 airliner
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

In February, NASA announced that it wanted to use its New Aviation Horizons program to revive the famed X-plane that did so much to advance post-war aviation. Now the agency has awarded a six-month US$2.9 million contract to Manassas, Virginia-based Aurora Flight Sciences to develop a scaled demonstration version of its Aurora D8 subsonic commercial airliner. Described as "changing the paradigm," the D8 is designed to significantly improve airliner performance by 2027.
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