Media Coverage

  Articles from the Canadian Forces

• A New Definition of Chair Flying: My Tour with TF Erebus (24 Apr 10)
• Task Force Erebus: Providing Essential Support to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan (24 Jun 10)
• All-day flight is no poisson d’avril (27 Apr 10)
• Canadian Heron UAV Detachment milestones: 5,000 hours flown (23 Jan 10)
• Greenwood personnel return from UAV mission in Afghanistan (31 July 09)
• Learning to fly the Heron (July 09)
• New capability in Afghanistan will help save lives (8 May 09)
• Canadian Heron reaches Initial Operating Capability (11 Feb 09)
• Helicopters & surveillance aircraft leave for Afghanistan (29 Dec 08)
• Heron to provide high-tech top cover (10 Dec 08)

  Articles about NANKEEN

• Air Force Heron Detachment deployed to Afghanistan assisting Australian soldiers on the ground (5 Aug 10)
• Heron Eyes in Afghan Skies (18 Feb 10) pp 1 & 2
• Australia launches Afghan operations with Heron UAV (14 Jan 10)
• First RAAF Heron UAV to be delivered (16 Dec 09)
• RAAF contracts for Heron UAV services (18 Sep 09)
• Air Force gets UAVs (17 Sep 09)
• Air Force to Begin Operating Its First Unmanned Aerial System (7 Sep 09)

  2008 Media Coverage

• Israeli-Built Drone Impresses
  Red Deer Advocate
• MDA's Heron Dips Toes into UAS Marketplace
  Brett Davis (http://www.auvsi.org/publications/)
• Drones Ready to Tackle Different Fields
  Business Edge
  March 21, 2008
• New UAV Takes Off at Suffield
  Tenille Tellman