MLB Company – Quotes

"Given our wide range of locations and terrain conditions, finding a tool that would suit both research and operational monitoring is a difficult task. But MLB worked with us to understand our needs and they delivered. The Bat has a promising future serving natural resource professionals."
-- Andy Horcher, Project Leader and Forester at the San Dimas Technology and Development Center of the US Forest Service, referring to mapping flights carried out on the Big Island of Hawaii

"The UAV Applications Center has been very impressed with the performance of MLB's avionics system. The performance was based on the test flights of the APV-3 UAV in the restricted airspace at NASA Ames and in the unrestricted National Airspace at the San Bernabe Vineyard. We look forward to continuing our association with MLB in an effort to build the confidence of end users as well as the general public in UAVs."
-- Stan Herwitz, Ph.D., Director of the Clark University UAV Applications Center

"We have used MLB Bat UAVs for the past 3 years as an experiment platform for our Smart Dust research. The Bat enables us to own a fully autonomous, simple to operate, UAV system at a fraction of the cost of all other options. It has been a key factor in performing successful flight demonstrations for our DARPA program sponsors."
-- Kris Pister, CEO of Dust Incorporated and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California - Berkeley

"From my perspective, it proved exactly the contribution that mini-UAVs can make."
-- Larry Harman, Director of the GeoGraphics Laboratory at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, following a traffic monitoring service flight near Boston

"We really appreciate the support that MLB provides as a company. They work well to understand our requirements and deliver products that meet our needs. We're also satisfied with the training they provide and the durability of the BAT system, which works reliably even in harsh environments."
-- Greg Pisanich, IAV Project Manager of QSS Group at NASA-Ames Research Center, whose team flew an MLB Bat in Houghton Crater in the Canadian Arctic

"I had seen the BAT fly before and knew its capabilities. Our experiments reinforced my expectations, but I was particularly impressed by MLB's willingness to work with us to address the institutional, as well as technical issues, in our traffic data collection experiments. We think we made important progress that has made us optimistic about the future potential for traffic surveillance from mini-UAVs."
-- Mark McCord, Ohio State professor of Civil Engineering, after MLB flew a traffic monitoring service mission for Dr. McCord and the US Department of Transportation in Virginia

"We bought a Bat in 2001 to test the feasibility of using UAVs for various wildlife research applications. We were most impressed with the reliability and user-friendliness of the autonomous control system."
-- P.J. Jones, Interdisciplinary Ecology researcher at the University of Florida