Tag Archives: Aviation

Harrier and Jaguar | Fiona Banner

Jaguar, 2010, polished Sepecat Jaguar aircraft © Tate Photography / Andrew Dunkley and Sam Drake

Decommissioned fighter planes in the incongruous setting of the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain by Fiona Banner.

Fiona Banner is best known for her ‘wordscapes’, written transcriptions of the frame-by-frame action in Hollywood war films. She has long been fascinated by the emblem of the fighter plane. Her compulsion to grasp the uncomfortable resonances of these war machines has produced a growing archive of material. From pencil drawings to newspaper cuttings and Airfix model collections of all the fighter planes currently in service, the modesty of her works often contrasts with the heroic connotations of her subject… more

Harrier, 2010, BAe Sea Harrier aircraft, paint © Tate Photography / Andrew Dunkley and Sam Drake

Aircraft, Airfix, Andrew Dunkley, Art, Aviation, BAE Sea Harrier, Carrier-based aircraft, Decommissioned, Fiona Banner, Harrier Jump Jet, Inspiration, Installation, Jet aircraft, Joseph Duveen 1st Baron Duveen, Military aircraft, Sam Drake, SEPECAT Jaguar, Tate, VTOL aircraft

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Quadrocopters are coming …

Under - Industrial Design, Inspiration, Technology

Control of multiple quadrotor robots to cooperatively transport a payload

Every now and then we get to see a video of these quadrocopters from the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab performing new precise manoeuvres in a cooperative logic. The technology becoming mature as the time is passing and the practical use of such devices (or systems) in future is not very far – military or civilian.

Cooperative Grasping and Transport using Quadrotors

Micro Autonomous Systems Technologies (MAST) is a collaboration with University of Maryland, University of Michigan, BAE Systems and Army Research Laboratories. Our vision is to develop Autonomous Multifunctional Mobile Microsystems (Am3), a networked group of small vehicles and sensors operating in dynamic, resource-constrained, adversarial environments. While individual units may be specialized, Am3 will be multifunctional because of its heterogeneity, the ability of individual units to automatically reconfigure and adapt to the environment and to human commands, and its distributed intelligence.