New Video shows Hood Tech’s Superwedge HP UAV Launcher in Action

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A video produced by the Australian Army in Afghanistan shows the Superwedge HP designed and produced by Hood Tech launching a small UAV.

Hood River, OR, United States., February 12, 2013 - (PressReleasePoint) -

From:  Hood Tech Corp Mechanical, Inc., Hood River, Oregon
Date:  February 12, 2013
Subject:  New Video shows Hood Tech’s Superwedge HP UAV Launcher in Action
Contact:  Cory Roeseler, Hood Tech Corp Mechanical, Inc., 541 387-2255, cory@hoodtech.com
A new video from the Australian Army (http://airlineticketsdeal.net/insitu-scaneagle-launch-and-capture/) shows Hood Tech’s Superwedge HP in action launching a small UAV in Afghanistan.  It shows the importance of the launcher in helping to eliminate the need for a UAV undercarriage and reinforced landing gear.  The unit featured in the video, the “Australian Army’s 131 Battery, 20th Surveillance and Target Acquisition Regiment”, has flown their UAV for “more than 25 thousand hours over Afghanistan so far”.  This means that Hood Tech launchers have been responsible for thousands of reliable launches in the rugged Afghani countryside for just one unit of the Australian Army (and tens of thousands more for other members of the Coalition).
When in 2002 Hood Tech began producing UAV launchers and innovative retrieval systems for small UAVs, those innovations enabled the elimination of runways for launch and retrieval.  This freed aircraft for shipboard use, for deployment in irregular or disrupted landscapes, and for other difficult locations.  Showing their ruggedness and reliability, Hood Tech launchers have initiated tens of thousands of flights under the extreme environments of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan and aboard ships in the oceans around the globe.
Dr. Andy von Flotow founded Hood Technology in Hood River, Oregon in 1992.  In addition to the design and manufacture of launch systems, Hood Technology:

• Provides zip test services for pre-flight safety verification of experimental aircraft and components.
• Owns and maintains a silent wind tunnel for measuring UAV engine and prop noise in accordance with MILSTD1474.
• Develops, tests, and manufactures stabilized imaging systems for a variety of UAVs
• Monitors blade vibrations in industrial turbines and jet engines, a diagnostic method for predicting possible future failures.

The Hood Tech web site is:  www.hoodtech.com