Australian aviation videographer Ross Stenhouse has posted a video of the ScanEagle briefing and demonstration that I and a group of journalists received a couple of Tuesdays ago in Toogoolawah, Australia.
The Boeing/Insitu ScanEagle, designed by Aerovel founder Tad McGeer, has become by far the most popular unmanned aircraft system in the size class beneath the AAI RQ-7 Shadow.
ScanEagle solves the problem of runway dependence for small UAS using a catapult launcher and a clever recovery method, in which a wing-tip hook snags a wire suspended from a crane. Witnessing ScanEagle's moment of recovery was actually worth a roughly 4-hour bus ride into the Australian bush in a cramped bus full of increasingly cranky aviation journalists!
The Boeing/Insitu ScanEagle, designed by Aerovel founder Tad McGeer, has become by far the most popular unmanned aircraft system in the size class beneath the AAI RQ-7 Shadow.
ScanEagle solves the problem of runway dependence for small UAS using a catapult launcher and a clever recovery method, in which a wing-tip hook snags a wire suspended from a crane. Witnessing ScanEagle's moment of recovery was actually worth a roughly 4-hour bus ride into the Australian bush in a cramped bus full of increasingly cranky aviation journalists!
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