Whether you buy a UAS from Lockheed Martin or Amazon, the essential components of the system are the same.

Drones, UAS or RPAs—what’s the good word?

Commercial tiltrotor could shrink fleets, reduce the need for outlying bases and lower costs for oil and gas operations.

Real-time telemetry was gathered from 22 UAS flying simultaneously at six sites nationwide.

GE tries new tooling concepts and designs for CMC components, specifically for aircraft engines.

Paris and Cairo recently finalized new defense cooperation accords, including a deal for development and construction of a military communications satellite.

The history of UAVs is a cycle of enthusiasm and indifference, success and failure, a journey from urgent requirement to frontline action to neglected storage. But that cycle has been broken, and unmanned aircraft are here to stay, in military and civil aviation.

Solid structural health monitoring for composites is the next goal of the MRO industry, and advances are being made on many fronts.