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Posted by Gary Mortimer on March 30, 2011 at 3:50pm

This is the sUAS flying over the nuclear plant in Japan, does anyone have info on it, I am struggling.

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Krzysztof Bosak April 1, 2011 at 10:05am

Looks like taking off from emptied motorway. Rare luxury these days.
Art March 31, 2011 at 7:46am

B Type Machine II
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Gary Mortimer March 31, 2011 at 5:51am

Brilliant, thanks Jiro
Jiro Hattori March 31, 2011 at 5:17am

The actual manufacturer might be " Fuji IMVAC ". http://www.fuji-imvac.co.jp/uav_jisseki.htm

Detail specification of the air craft is like here. http://www.fuji-imvac.co.jp/uav_bgataki.htm

The flight control system looks like professional grade. http://www.fuji-imvac.co.jp/uav_FCC.htm
Jiro Hattori March 31, 2011 at 5:06am

You can access at following URL. http://www.yamazaki-k.co.jp/airphoto/

The video took by this UAV is here. http://www.yamazaki-k.co.jp/airphoto/UAV-FL.wmv

They said that their own development.

We can not get detail information about the company.
Whooper March 31, 2011 at 4:53am

here's the company website

http://www.yamazaki-k.co.jp/airphoto/
Yuan Gao March 31, 2011 at 3:32am

Such similar image searches do exist, but they're not as useful as you would want them to be

http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/

http://www.gazopa.com/

http://www.tineye.com/
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Gary Mortimer March 31, 2011 at 3:23am

It has the look of a well made Japanese product, and the writing on it would seem to confirm its local. Still struggling. Wish I could drop the image into google and then it go off an find all similar based on the picture.
Whooper March 31, 2011 at 2:17am

it appears to say the place name in English "Niigata Miyoko"
Yuan Gao March 31, 2011 at 12:35am

There is some text on the tail that might also help

Source: http://www.canada.com/news/decision-canada/Harper+promises+break+sm...

Gallery: Earthquake and tsunami in Japan

An earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter Scale and resulting tsunami struck Japan March 11, 2011.

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