LATEST NEWS

History-making Hurricane Noel Flight

Hunt Valley, Maryland, November 12, 2007

AAI Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Industrial Corporation (NYSE: UIC), announced today that its Aerosonde unmanned aircraft completed a history-making flight into Hurricane Noel on Friday and Saturday, ...more

DSTO Dewstat Trial

El Paso, Texas, USA. September 2007

Aerosonde support for Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) participation in the field trial by providing flight services.

Simultaneous flights of up to five Aerosonde aircraft that are carrying ...more

NATO UAV Standard of Interoperability

Australia lifts lid on joint UAV airspace deconfliction programme with Singapore
Flightglobal.com, March 26, 2007

Australia and Singapore have conducted a trial of collision-avoidance technologies for swarming UAVs with a 97% success rate claimed for ...more

Hurricanes R' Us

National Hurricane Centre (NHC), Miami, Florida, USA
September 2006. Finalised Oct 10, 2006

As an Aerosonde heads into the hurricane following its launch from Naval Air Station Key West, control will be transferred to our Ground Control ...more

AUVSI 2006

"This years AUVSI was held at the Gaylord Palms resort in Orlando, Florida. The event ran over three full days and was attended by over 4000 attendees from around the Globe. The briefing sessions were ...more

Successful flight of a MicroSpectrometer Payload

July 28, 2006
by Ben Simko (summer Intern Aerosonde Wallops)

NASA conducted a successful flight of a MicroSpectrometer Payload on an Aerosonde UAV. The Aerosonde UAV was picked as the UAV of choice due to its Exceptional ...more

Aerosonde acquired by AAI Corporation

HUNT VALLEY, Maryland, June 22, 2006

United Industrial Corporation (NYSE: UIC) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary AAI Corporation has acquired privately-held Aerosonde Pty Ltd. and Aerosonde North America, Inc. in stock purchase transactions for an ...more

Aerosonde Mk4 UAV Sets New Endurance Mark

5 May 2006

Flying from the Aerosonde test facility in western Victoria, a Mk4 Aerosonde UAV today set an unofficial1 world endurance record of 38 hrs and 48 minutes. The current official record is 30 ...more

Mid-Atlantic Institute for Space and Technology (MIST)

Wallops AFB, Virginia, Feb 8, 2005

Aerosonde North America today announced its acceptance as a corporate member of the Mid-Atlantic Institute for Space and Technology (MIST). MIST is an established bi-state (Maryland and Virginia) Not?for?Profit Association, ...more