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British air force tests unmanned jetliner, again
Qinetic’s UAV simulator a success as a Tornado pilot manages to control a passenger jet and three virtual UAVs
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Predator UAVs suffer 40 percent losses
Insatiable demand in the field prompts Air Force to ask for twenty-two additional craft; operator errors continue to plague UAV airspace
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Northrop receives another large Global Hawk contract
Air Force orders $287 million of the crash-prone UAVs; craft have played a major role in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Army and Air Force feud over UAV control
Bad blood brews over repeated Air Force proposals to manage the military’s medium and high altitude drones; Air Force is not being “collegial,” says one general
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Orlando airport to spend $7 million on additional security measures
Faced with mounting criticism, aviation authorities only need three minutes to approve its biggest security overhaul since 9/11; baggage screening, vehicle inspection, and voice stress analysis under consideration
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FAA seeks cockpit GPS systems to prevent crashes
Onboard navigation system will be a step back from an earlier NTSB proposal, but agency calls it “a breakthrough application”
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Elbit claims its Skylark UAV is in Iraq
Although Canadian forces in Afghanistan have found the drone unreliable, American forces find it perfectly suited to counter-terror missions
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Gait-recognition biometrics to assist other biometric measures
Biometric identification measures may be good, but imagine subjecting the 68 million passangers who pass through heathrow every year to the time-consuming facial or iris recogntion test; gait-recogntion may help
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Saab offers MANPAD defense system
Company teams up with Naturelink and Chemring Countermeasures to test an infrared decoy system; deployment possible by 2008
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DHS to test Crossmatch and Identix's ten-print scanners
Fifty of the devices will be deployed to airports nationwide to assist with US-VISIT; DHS also plans to tweak exit procedures
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ACRO shows a detector for peroxide-based explosives
Peroxide-based explosives are nearly impossible to identify because they do not contain nitro groups and are colorless; ACRO offers a solution
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Israelis look to break solar UAV record
Technion researchers intend to exceed 190 kilometers of uninterrupted flight; control problems, however, continue to plague the industry
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DAE interested in acquiring U.S. defence companies
DPW waded into a firestorm last year when it acquired management rights in major U.S. seaports; now DAE is risking a similar firestorm as it tries to buy into the U.S. aircraft maintenance and service sector
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Lockheed stumbles out of the UAV gate
Polecat crashes in the Nevada desert, but at least the self-destruct mechanism works okay
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TSA strikes back at dope smuggling employees
Agency sends 160 officers to Florida after drug runners infiltrate Orlando airport
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