Avionics - April 2010

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Northrop Grumman completed a series of test flights of its Bat unmanned aircraft system (UAS), the company announced Feb. 25. Northrop Grumman acquired the Bat product line from Swift Engineering in April 2009, and has since expanded the line’s capabilities.

During recent testing, the 12-foot and 10-foot wingspan Bat were each launched from an AAI Shadow UAS launcher and autonomously operated from a single ground control station before recovery via net. Configured with a 12-foot wingspan, the Bat- 12 incorporates a German-made Hirth two-stroke engine driving a low acoustic five-blade propeller.

As a communications relay using Northrop Grumman’s Software Defined Tactical Radio, Bat has also demonstrated its capacity to provide beyond line-of-sight tactical communications relay for ground forces in denied environments, Northrop Grumman said.

The Bat UAS has been integrated and tested with new payloads and systems including a T2 Delta dual payload micro-gimbal from Goodrich’s Cloud Cap Technology, Sentient Vision Systems’ Kestral real-time moving target indicator, and short wave infrared camera from Goodrich.

In February, payload integration and testing was expanded to include the ImSAR NanoSAR-B fused with Cloud Cap’s T2 gimbal in a cursor-on-target acquisition mode.

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Standby Instrument Thales was selected to provide its Integrated Electronic Standby Instrument (IESI) for Eurocopter’s range of light and medium helicopters, including the EC135, EC145, EC155 and military derivatives, as well as for the EC175, which performed its first flight at the end of 2009. The companies made the announcement Feb. 22 at Heli Expo in Houston.

Combining sensors and display in a single box, the Thales IESI gives pilots the three main elements of information necessary to ensure a manual flight (attitude, altitude and air speed), even when other avionics functions are down. It includes a battery, providing power

NanoSAR Payload

Boeing subsidiary Insitu, based in Bingen, Wash., on Feb. 23 announced the availability of NanoSAR, a tactical syn-thetic-aperture radar (SAR) payload, for its ScanEagle and Integrator unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The announcement followed four years of development by Insitu and NanoSAR developer, ImSAR LLC of Spanish Fork, Utah.