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Air Drone Inc. was formed to continue the development that Airstar International, Inc. (AirStar) began in 1988 with the design and manufacturing of cutting edge remote controlled UAV helicopters for the US Navy, US Army and Northrop Grumman.
AirStar’s amazing aerial photography achieved world notoriety in Hollywood’s Movie industry with Schwarzenegger and George Lucas productions, which grew into UAV aerial surveillance systems for government agencies and UAVaerial delivery systems for Environmental Protection Agency compliance.
In 2003 AirStar built an experimental ducted fan UAV VTOL with the US Navy and sister company, Roadable Aircraft, based on the successful Hiller flying platform ducted fan configuration with major advances fusing 21st century computer aerospace technology.
Air Drone, is a new company dedicated to the cutting edge of VTOL UAVs, but its civilian mother company AirStar has been an innovator and world leader in Unmanned Air Vehicles and Remote Controlled Vertical Take Off and Landing technology for over 20 years in the design, engineering, development, production and sales of cutting edge remote controlled (RC) unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) for international government and civilian surveillance services, US military, fire and rescue departments as well as aerial photography and laboratory / product data testing.
Air Drone’s parent company, the Mundus Group announced the strategic partnership with Airstar co-developer will be co-building the next generation of UAV s under the Mundus Group’s new divisions, Air Drone Inc and Air Intel Systems as a dedicated aerial surveillance systems and services provider for military and government agencies. |
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| In 2003 AirStar International and Roadable Aircraft Inc entered into a relationship to build a secret unmanned air vehicle at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division. |
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Pictured below is the AirStar RAI co developed, built and flight tested UAV. This UAV was Air Drone’s first prototype and was completed while engagedin a 3 year CRADA, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the US NAVY at Point Mugu Naval Air base, California between 2001 and 2004, which ultimately culminated in a US patent for RAI’s VTOL Flying Car using 16 counter-rotating propellers within a ducted fan enclosure.
In order to gain data for the control systems of the larger Roadable Aircraft Inc manned vehicle, which uses an 8-foot ducted fan and is turbine driven (Pictured Below). It was an RAI decision to build a smaller less expensive 6 ft -5" ducted fan unmanned air vehicle to testthe control systems. AirStar built the duct and remote controls with RAI project supervisor Robert McBride and RAI Coordinator Keith Field assisting. |
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| Above: Roadable Aircraft patented technology 2 manned 8 ft ducted fan V1 Flyer VTOL co developed with US Navy (US Patent 6.457,670 B1 Counter Rotating Ducted Fan VTOL Flying Car) currently under production as VTOL V1 Flyer KIT. |
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