Remote-controlled eyes already keeping watch from NZ skies
Interesting article from the New Zealand Herald
To a non-expert, it looks like nothing more than a large model plane.
But the AreoHawk is a highly sophisticated drone that its owner insists is up there with the world’s best miniature spy planes.
The craft is owned by Palmerston North company Hawkeye UAV, which is headed by two former NZ Army officers, one of whom was head of the Army’s unmanned aircraft programme. The other was until last year the manager of a security company in Iraq.
Both men are listed on LinkedIn as being involved in the “security and investigations” industry, but director Rowland Harrison says the company’s main focus in New Zealand is on 3D mapping for commercial clients such as mining companies, and local government.
According to Harrison, New Zealand is internationally renowned for its “extremely advanced, commercial miniature UAS [unmanned aircraft systems] technology”.
Hawkeye has so far received about $30,000 in government funding to help with research and development, and works closely with the Defence Technology Agency (DTA), as well as the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), he says.
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