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Thou hast been mandated integration by Congress in 2012. The US Congress passed a law that states that the FAA would fully integrate drones into the NAS by September of 2015. Has this happened? No! So everything else that is not directly meeting the existing law is, in my estimation, not inclusive. From the FAA […]

Parrot, a leading European drone group, is pleased to announce today that it has teamed up with three leading UAV training organisations to launch the Parrot Certified Training Programs for professional users across the public safety, enterprise, government and defence verticals. Graduates of the program will receive a Parrot Professional Pilot Certificate, specialty education, training, and experience to make […]

High Eye, the manufacturer that produces the Long-Range VTOL UAV called the Airboxer®, signed a multi-year contract with UAV Navigation. The agreement includes the VECTOR-600 premium autopilot that meets ISO9001:2015 standards and which is compliant with MIL-STD-810F (vibration,acceleration, humidity, rain, temperature, etc.) and with MIL-STD 461F (EMI).“At UAV Navigation we are very proud to be […]

Chris Wilson joins WhiteFox as CEO, and Jef Graham has been appointed as Executive Chairman. WhiteFox Defense, the trusted global leader in drone airspace security, has appointed Chris Wilson as their new CEO and Jef Graham as their new Executive Chairman. Luke Fox, Founder, Chairman & CEO of WhiteFox, will transition to the position of […]

Flying drones over long distances or scanning large areas is always challenging. One of the biggest problems is the limited drone communication range. Of course, a drone can fly along the route pre-developed in UgCS, but receiving drone telemetry or sending commands over long distances is not always possible. For DJI, one of the most […]

Draxxon releases the industry’s first fully-electric towable mobile command center, powered by a Volta Power Systems lithium-ion power system. Volta Power Systems, a leading supplier of auxiliary advanced energy systems, partnered with specialty vehicle manufacturer Draxxon on their DX-816 fully electric towable command centre, the first of its kind in the industry. The DX-816 centre […]

SoftBank Corp. (“SoftBank”) and its subsidiary HAPSMobile Inc. (“HAPSMobile”) developed a new global model that can estimate radio wave interference at high altitudes and enable the design of network area coverage for High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) stratospheric-based wireless communication systems. The new model was added as a part of a revision to the International […]

Partnership to explore utilizing Honeywell’s IntuVue RDR-84K detect-and-avoid radar system on Airflow’s industry-first eSTOL aircraft Airflow, Inc., an aerospace company building a next-gen electric Short Takeoff and Landing (eSTOL) aircraft, today announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Honeywell International Inc. to explore integrating Honeywell’s IntuVue RDR-84K radar system onto its aircraft. By executing on […]

Autonomous Last Mile Resupply – a challenge everyone faces in diverse operational conditions. We at Fleetonomy.ai have experimented this together with Thales Defence, GRIFF Aviation AS, Avartek, HIPPO Multipower and Domo Tactical Communications (DTC) using autonomous unmanned aerial and ground vehicles e.g. UAVs and UGVs for tactical resupply missions. In the featured video a mobile […]

Flytrex, a leader in on-demand drone delivery for food and retail, today announced the expansion of its drone delivery service to Holly Springs, North Carolina. In partnership with Causey Aviation Unmanned, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), The Town of Holly Springs, and Kite Realty Group Trust (NYSE:KRG), Flytrex has begun delivering food […]

Skyfire Consulting (Skyfire) (skyfireconsulting.com), the most trusted and experienced public safety UAS consulting group, today announced it has teamed up with Parrot, the leading European drone group, to offer its world-class drone training as one of the first Official Parrot Certified training partners for professional users across the public safety, enterprise, government and defence verticals. In […]

• Agnostic to drone hardware & software, DBX opens to aerial analytics from around the world• UTM-ready & 5G-enabled, DBX is the first real step towards larger UAM vertiports of the future SINGAPORE, PARIS, AUSTIN – October, 2021 – H3 Dynamics announces the launch of DBX-G7, a brand new vertiport system for autonomous drone operations. […]

Aeroporti di Roma, Aeroporto di Venezia, Aeroports de la Cote d’Azur and Aeroporto Guglielmo Marconi di Bologna together for the building and management of vertiports Urban Blue, a project focused on sustainable mobility set up by Aeroporti di Roma, Aeroporto di Venezia, Aeroports de la Cote d’Azur and Aeroporto Guglielmo Marconi di Bologna has been […]

San Jose, California (USA), October, 2021: In collaboration with FlytBase, Miami-based autonomous drone dock manufacturer Hextronics are releasing HexTruck — avehicle-mountable drone hangar for automated mobile inspection and public safetyoperations — on Thursday, October 28, at 11:00 CST. To learn more and to register for the event, visit https://flytnow.com/flytlaunch/hextruck/ The New & Improved Hextronics Global […]

Madrid, Spain: Altitude Angel, the world’s most trusted UTM (Unified Traffic Management) technology provider, chose the CANSO Executive Summit taking place in Madrid to announce Dublin Airport is to become the latest airport to date to deploy its next-generation airspace management solution – GuardianUTM Enterprise Launched in March of this year, GuardianUTM Enterprise is an […]

Allen Geomatics helps compare the differences between traditional and Drone LiDAR surveying methods Rome, NY- Down to Earth, a surveying reality series, heads into the woods of North Carolina to compare traditional and drone surveying methods on a 15-acre design survey for a development project. In these 4 informative episodes, Allen Geomatics, a land surveying, […]

TYLÖSAND, SWEDEN (October 25, 2021) – Today, Aerit completed Sweden’s first commercial beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) food delivery in collaboration with Region Halland using its autonomous drone the Nimbi. The delivery flight began at Hygge, a local cafe near Tylösand beach, where a freshly made galette was winched into the Nimbi waiting at […]

Here in the United States, October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month —our yearly reminder to lock our work computers, avoid clicking on suspicious links, and refrain from sharing (or re-using) our passwords. Of course, cybersecurity isn’t just something we need to think about in our personal or professional lives—it’s a core issue impacting national security, and the safety […]

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Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) (“Red Cat” or the “Company”), a hardware-enabled software provider to the drone industry, announces today that its TEAL Drones subsidiary has opened its new U.S.-based manufacturing facility located in Salt Lake City, Utah. “After closing the Teal drone acquisition less than two months ago, our investment to scale production of the […]

During the Geospatial World Forum – taking place in Amsterdam from October 20-22 this year- geospatial best practices from around the globe are being recognized. RIEGL is proud to announce that the RIEGL VUX-120 UAV-LiDAR Sensor for Corridor Mapping has been awarded with the Geospatial World Innovation Award 2021! On October 20, 2021, in course of the Geospatial World Forum Gala […]

Mesa and Flirtey are initially focusing on the last-mile food delivery industry, enabling Mesa to expand beyond the global airlines market and into the global foodservice market. The immediate goal of the partnership is to conduct commercial drone deliveries in the last-mile food and beverage market in the U.S. The parties plan to expand the […]

The competition aims to educate people on drone permissions required to fly across towns, cities, and the UK countryside. New research by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) revealed, 80% of drone users are aware that approval is needed to fly a drone in a town or city in most cases – compared to only half […]

DroneCAN is the primary CAN protocol used by the ArduPilot and PX4 projects for communication with CAN peripherals. It is an open protocol with open communication, specification and multiple open implementations. Relationship with UAVCAN DroneCAN was created to continue the development of the widely used UAVCAN v0.9 protocol. This protocol has proven itself as robust and feature-rich […]

While orbiting south of the runway in preparation for landing, both the unmanned aircraft’s engines shut down unexpectedly. The External Pilot on the ground, who was visual with the aircraft, took control and landed it without further incident. The dual-engine shutdown was likely to have been caused by an on-aircraft data error. Various safety actions, […]

Snowdonia Aerospace LLP is delighted to announce that our Connected Places Catapult (CPC) Drone Technology Research & Innovation Grant (D-TRIG) project, “Dragon’s Roar” (“Rhuo Ddraig”), has been selected as the winner of the Chief Scientific Advisor’s Innovation Award for Social Impact at the recent UK Department of Transport (DFT) Innovation Expo. “Dragon’s Roar” is a collaboration […]

Elroy Air, the Aerospace and Logistics company developing the world’s first end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo system, today announced that Grant Newman has been appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer, effective September 28, 2021. Mr. Newman has an extensive background in finance and aviation. He recently served as SVP, Strategy […]

Associated Elements provided by physical and digital infrastructure will support advanced UAS ecosystems. New FAA guidance addressing requirements for these elements present a path forward to scalability and highlights associated challenges. A recent FAA Aviation Safety Memorandum (“Memo”) confirms what ResilienX and other industry experts have long understood; integrating UAS into the national airspace (NAS) is […]

Melbourne, AUSTRALIA: Swoop Aero has strengthened its partnership with Australia’s largest independent aerospace composites business, Quickstep Holdings Limited, after accepting a strategic investment as it prepares to significantly scale up manufacturing in 2022. With demand for reliable, sustainable, and scalable drone logistics increasing across the world, the investment from Quickstep is part of a strategic […]

I’d love to report that the usual suspects put a few points on the board this yer, butalas, I cannot. I know there are some of you already calling me Debbie downer andor negative as the “experts” at the Commercial Dog and pony expo are saying BVLOS(Beyond Visual Line Of Sight for the Best Buy […]

KELDAR V-200 successfully demonstrates its naval capabilities performing day and night search and rescue missions from Finnish ship Turva using fully automatic take-off and landing (ATOL) as part of the ongoing Finnish Border Guard Valvonta2 project UMS Skeldar’s V-200 has successfully completed five-day long surveillance flight trial demonstrations aboard the OPV Turva as part of the Valvonta2 project led by the Finnish Border Guard and funded by the European Maritime and […]