By Vince Horiuchi| The Salt Lake Tribune
An alliance made up of Utah universities and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development is making a bid to turn part of the state into a testing ground for “unmanned aerial systems.” You may know them as drones.
But officials from the Mountain West Unmanned Systems Alliance stress it’s not military drones that would be buzzing around Utah’s airspace if they were awarded the contract from the Federal Aviation Administration. The devices are drones that help people, not blow up villages.
“Think of an aircraft that can fly in [conditions] not safe to be in,” said GOED spokesman Michael Sullivan. “Like fighting a forest fire or going into a fire and seeing what’s going on.”
Marshall Wright, GOED’s director of business development for aerospace and defense industries, said these unmanned aircraft could be used for precision farming such as applying pesticides more efficiently or mapping out urban infrastructure.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/56095188-79/utah-unmanned-drones-alliance.html.csp
Comments
Nice publicity for Mauricio! :) Thanks Gary, his airframe took a lot of time to desing and execute, I was able to see it in person a couple time and they are great platforms.
I am sure he will appreciate the links!
Dany
Its better than the Predator image that they all use, so yes a stock image.
Are they actually using the Aeromao system, or you just used it as a stock photo?
Tnx Gary,
Yes that's the photo I used for it, its Aeromapper http://aeromao.com/aeromapper_uav
Nice and simple looking airframes. Any Idea about the source for these airframes?