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UAV PropulsionTech Post #6 – COTS Piston Aero Engines for UAV’s
COTS Piston Aero Engines for UAV’s: A week ago a guy thought it would be a great idea to land a gyrocopter on the Capitol lawn to deliver letters to try to change campaign finance laws. Pretty crazy...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #7 – Preparing for AUVSI
Preparing for AUVSI: AUVSI’s Umanned Systems 2015 trade show is next week (MAY 4-7) in Atlanta, GA. I have been attending this show for the past 10+ years. They used to alternate between west coast...
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UAV Propulsion Tech – Post #8 – Drones in Agriculture
Drones in Agriculture: It has been about a month since my last blog post. I have been very busy supporting the AUVSI conference in Atlanta, visiting customers and even spent a week at our vacation...
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UAV Propulsion Tech – Post #9 – What’s under the Cowling
What’s Under the Cowling: I thought I would do a post on propulsion systems in the public domain that are flying on several UAV’s today. My focus for this post will be on UAV’s utilizing Hirth...
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UAV Propulsion Tech – Post #10 – US Commercial Drone Conferences
US Commercial Drone Conferences: My UAV experience has mainly been with defense applications but I am trying to also market my products and services into the commercial drone market (agriculture,...
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UAV Propulsion Tech – Post #11 – UAV Engine Suppliers
UAV Engine Suppliers: Full disclosure at the front of this blog is I represent two companies that provide propulsion solutions into the UAV market (Orbital and Hirth) and they will be detailed in this...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #12 – Robots in the Sky – Cracking down on Drone Law
Info Graphic developed by Intella Blog. Posted with permission. Robots in the Sky: Cracking Down on Drone Law (via Intella Blog) Key UAV News for the Week: New Multi-Function Unmanned Vehicle...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #13 – UAV’s Spotted at Dubai Airshow 2015
UAV’s Spotted at the Dubai Airshow 2015: I attended the Dubai Airshow for the first time this year and walked the show with one of my colleagues from Hirth Motors. The purpose was to check out the...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #14 – 2015 Year in Review
I thought it would be good to close out the year with highlights and news from the various companies represented by UAV Propulsion Tech here in the US. These include Orbital, Volz, Hirth, MicroPilot...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #15 – The Advantages of Commercial UAV Autopilots...
I am the US rep for MicroPilot and market their autopilots to US UAV customers. I have permission from MicroPilot to re-print a white paper that is on their website titled “The Advantages of...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #16 – Global UAV/Drone Conferences 2016
As we start the new year, I thought it would be good to try to put together a list of the global UAV/Drone conferences scheduled this year. This will cover both defense and commercial conferences....
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #17 – COTS UAV Engines
Most UAV companies are looking for COTS (consumer off the shelf) engines that don’t require expensive R&D funding to fly. Hirth has been around since the early 1900’s and has been designing and...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #18 – UAV Chute Options
Parachutes can be used on UAV’s for recovery or rescue. Recovery gives the UAV manufacturer an alternative that is not runway or “catch” recovery dependent (like nets or other means to grab the UAV...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #19 – Triple Redundant UAV Autopilot
I am the US rep for MicroPilot and market their autopilots to US UAV customers. I have permission from MicroPilot to re-print a white paper they have on their website titled “MP21283x MicroPilot’s...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #20 – UAV EO/IR Gimbal Solutions
I just started representing DST Control in April of this year and market their gyro-stabilized EO/IR gimbal solutions and thermal imagers in North America. DST Control is based in Linköping, Sweden...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #21 – UAV System Solutions
UAV’s require several systems to keep them in the air and allow them to complete their mission. I have been working in the UAV business over 10 years mainly supporting propulsion systems but in the...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #22 – Highlights from InterDrone 2016
I attended the InterDrone conference that was held at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas SEP 7-9. I attended last year and supported the MicroPilot exhibit. MicroPilot exhibited again this year and I...
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I have been posting blogs on UAV Propulsion Tech for about a year and a half so I wanted to check my Google Analytics for blog post activity from JAN-OCT 2016. I summarized the results in the...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #24 – Info Graphic: The Rise of the Drone Industry
The info graphic is courtesy of The Drone Worx company out of the UK and is published on this blog with their permission. They are a hobby/commercial drone retailer. You can find out more info by...
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UAV Propulsion Tech Post #25 – Highlights from the Commercial UAV Expo 2016
I attended the Commercial UAV Expo that was held at the MGM Grand Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. I arrived on OCT 31st and supported the MicroPilot booth during the Halloween reception and...
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