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Smart Skies Project's plan to make skies safer
Jennifer Foreshew | March 24, 2009
THE first phase of flight tests of an automatic aircraft separation system designed to avert potential air collisions has begun as part of the $12 million Smart Skies Project.
Smart Skies is a three-year research collaboration between Boeing Research and Technology and the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation, a joint venture of Queensland University of Technology and CSIRO.
The first flight tests of the system this month involved computers at Boeing in Seattle averting a virtual midair collision between a pilotless helicopter, developed and operated by the centre, and simulated by aircraft over Kingaroy in the South Burnett region of Queensland.
More here from The Australian...
Jennifer Foreshew | March 24, 2009
THE first phase of flight tests of an automatic aircraft separation system designed to avert potential air collisions has begun as part of the $12 million Smart Skies Project.
Smart Skies is a three-year research collaboration between Boeing Research and Technology and the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation, a joint venture of Queensland University of Technology and CSIRO.
The first flight tests of the system this month involved computers at Boeing in Seattle averting a virtual midair collision between a pilotless helicopter, developed and operated by the centre, and simulated by aircraft over Kingaroy in the South Burnett region of Queensland.
More here from The Australian...
