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Urban Aeronautics Ltd., a leader in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with U.S.-based Hatzolah Air to develop, produce, and market its CityHawk aircraft for emergency medical service (EMS) applications, company executives announced. CityHawk is a revolutionary VTOL with a uniquely compact footprint and no external wings or rotors, resulting […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), announced that it will engage Canadian companies to participate in the development and success of the MQ-9B SkyGuardian® RPAS. Companies with an interest in participating can apply using GA-ASI’s web-based participation request form. “GA-ASI is always looking to build on our […]

Working within a fun and knowledgeable team to research, design, develop and test Aerospace technologies and product prototypes. The work is centred around the interesting subject of drones and Software Defined Radios (SDR) systems. Do you have what it takes?• General willingness to ‘get your hands dirty’ at building and testing systems• Excellent communication skills• […]

REDWOOD CITY /SOFTWARE – TEST /FULL-TIME Skydio is seeking an enthusiastic flight test engineer to help ensure that the units we are shipping to customers are of the highest quality. This role requires a rigorous approach to field testing complex systems and their capabilities across a wide spectrum of environmental and operating conditions. How you’ll […]

We are currently recruiting for Drone Pilots / Flight Operations Engineers to join our mission to transform how we move essential goods around our communities. If you currently hold your multi-rotor and/or fixed-wing PfCO and are looking for a new challenge, please email careers@skyports.net along with your CV and tailored cover letter. The successful applicant will be highly enthusiastic […]

Sanari Capital, backed by leading institutional investor 27four, is pleased to announce its R25 million (USD 1.5 million) investment in LightWare LiDAR, a South African company supplying world-class microLiDAR sensor technology to leading global companies. Established in 2012, LightWare gives ‘eyes to machines’, designing and manufacturing the world’s smallest and lightest precision LiDAR systems for […]

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK and OSS, NETHERLANDS August 18th, 2020 – Phase One Industrial, a world-leading provider of medium- and large-format metric cameras and imaging solutions for aerial applications, has signed an agreement with Acecore Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for cinema and creative, industrial, and security markets. Together, these companies’ high-end […]

Mast Farms LLC is using Quantix Mapper and Pix4Dfields to create variable rates for Pix application on their cotton farm. Cotton is one of the most important crops grown in the United States and a staple of the fashion, personal care, and beauty industries, just to name a few. Once harvested, very little goes to […]

LiDAR USA integrates and manufactures high-performance LiDAR systems and mapping software on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground vehicles that are used for surveying and mapping. When looking for a high-performance and cost-efficient inertial measurement unit to pair with its wide range of offerings, finding a scalable and proven solution to meet their customers’ needs […]

The Morrison Government is investing up to $1.3 billion in a new Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) development program to enhance situational awareness across Australia’s vast maritime environment. The Maritime UAS Continuous Development program will ensure Defence maintains leading-edge maritime surveillance capabilities. Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC said Defence requires leading-edge maritime […]

At just 23.5 pounds, this ultra-lightweight Group 2 aircraft is launchable by hand or bungee and provides up to 6.5 hours flight endurance, delivering Group 2 capabilities in a Group 1 footprint while stowed efficiently in a two-case mission packout. Puma LE is All Environment and provides an operational range of 60 km in land […]

Observing an increasingly growing demand of unmanned device applications during Australia’s winter cropping season best seen in decades, XAG is on track to deploy drones to help farmers take the pressure off chemical use and preserve water. Faced with the expanded size of sown areas in Australia, XAG works with millennial drone entrepreneurs from Queensland to provide autonomous spraying solutions for the difficult-to-access field areas of horticulture crops, including […]

Jamming activity will take place 17 – 28 August 2020, affecting airspace above Wales and the SW of England. The activity may affect GNSS navigation and precision timing devices including electronic situational awareness devices and UAV’s (drones). Jamming may impact GNSS signals up to 40,000FT AMSL within 62NM of N52° 00’ 53”, W003° 38’ 31” (Sennybridge). During the trials […]

New Delhi, Delhi, India Soon you might be able to order food from your favourite restaurant 30 km away and get it delivered to your home via a drone in less than 30 minutes. Until now drones were mostly being used for videography and surveillance. But a recent change in Govt. regulations will now allow long […]

Elbit Systems’ THOR, a multi-rotor Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) mini Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), successfully completed a series of environmental qualification tests ahead of the delivery of more than a thousand of units to an army in Southeast Asia. As announced on October 6, 2019, the Company was awarded a $153 million contract to provide a networked multi-layered […]

Unmanned vehicles are growing and developing new capabilities at a rapid pace. After just a few steps, your utility work could become significantly easier and more reliable than it is now. Here is UVT’s guide to scaling utility drone operations. Your Questions Answered “Why would I use drones if I can keep doing things the […]

Ishveena Singh Save precious processing time and improve the accuracy of your drone survey with DJI Terra, now 400% more efficient than before. Whether it is to perform detailed inspections on complex assets or monitor the work at a construction site, drones are increasingly being adopted by various industries to capture high-resolution data in a […]

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. announced today that the county has been awarded an $897,000 task order for Advanced Air Mobility development through a NASA contract with its UAS Test Site at Griffiss International Airport. The county’s UAS test site in Rome—one of just seven sanctioned by the FAA in the U.S.—will conduct research […]

A premium thrust stand which measures all you need to know about your propulsion system. Record thrust, torque, voltage, current, motor rotation speed, and vibration. The Series 1585 is a new and improved version of the Series 1580. It has a better dynamic response, a higher power capability, and a better electrical noise immunity for […]

All ALTI aircraft are designed to fly various payload options, such as the the NextVision NightHawk2 dual sensor gimbal system, ideally suited for security & surveillance applications. The NextVision NightHawk 2 is a lightweight camera with great capabilities and features, such as smart object tracking, thermal imaging, video recording and more. Other features making this […]

Who doesn’t love safety, transparency, and or fairness? As we all know, any one of these concepts could very well be my middle name. Here I was trying to get the summer heat off of my mind and started thinking about a beautiful cool glacier. The association immediately got me thinking of FAA rulemaking, and […]

Full-time position – Starting date: asap – Location: Darmstadt/Germany Do you want to shape the future of aviation? Do you share our vision of saving and improving lives through technology with a purpose? Then join our ambitious team of young talents and experienced professionals! We at Wingcopter design innovative, high-performance drones that are operated all over […]

Tactical Radio to Provide LPI/LPD Enhancements to the Warfighter Silvus Technologies, Inc. was recently awarded OPTION funding under a Research & Development project by the U.S. Army’s C5ISR Center located at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The contract worth over $2M is entitled “Protected Communications for Manned/Unmanned Teams” or PCM. The project is intended to develop […]

Nevada, USA – Fireworks by Grucci, the latest partner company to invest in Verge Aero’s high performance drone show technology, recently completed a project with a difference for YouTube superstar MrBeast when he decided to have a little fun with some serious fireworks in the Nevada desert. MrBeast – real name Jimmy Donaldson – is a YouTube phenomenon, attracting […]

AlphaLink Engineering GmbH and DiAvEn join forces to enable large-scale delivery of medical equipment. Both companies signed a strategic cooperation agreement last Friday, August 05. As part of the cooperation, the Labfly drones will be equipped with AlphaLink’s backup system for BVLOS flight. First target to perform BVLOS flights for fast and secure medical transportation will be the German capital region Berlin, where […]

Aeroseeder is one of the early adopters of UAVenture’s AirRails autopilot which enables their drone to fully autonomously distribute environmentally friendly cover crop seeds accurately and efficiently with their unique drone design. Aeroseeder will soon be making complete ready-to-fly systems, capable of delivering 40 lbs / 18 Kg of seed per flight, available to farmers and service providers […]

Between flooding, gale force winds, lightning, and hail, extreme weather is the number one cause of PV insurance claims, accounting for roughly 50% of the total. It is therefore critical for operations and maintenance (O&M) teams to deploy immediately on site afterwards, and the speed and flexibility of aerial inspection allows operators to quickly get their […]

The ability of Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus to fly unmanned aircraft systems beyond visual line of sight is expanding. The campus’s Applied Aviation Research Center has received a new waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration that permits K-State Polytechnic to fly unmanned aircraft beyond visual line of sight, or BVLOS, in all Class G airspace nationwide. Class G […]

DroneDeploy is the enterprise-grade drone data platform for managing complex job sites. Trusted by brands globally, our software automates everything from flight to insight, making the power of aerial data accessible and productive for everyone. We’re transforming data collection across a variety of industries, including agriculture, oil & gas, construction, solar, and utilities, so teams […]

With the constant need to overcome the challenge that is the African landscape we now had to break from convention yet again – by implementing outer wing sections on our UAVs that can lower during take-off and landing! After intensive research into what a UAV would need to be able to do in the challenging […]

The landmark first drone-in-a-box to have an integral ASTM approved parachute sets a precedent for drone safety as part of an ongoing collaboration with the FAA Modi’in, Israel August, 2020. Percepto, the global market leader for autonomous industrial drone solutions, today announced that its on-site autonomous drone, the Percepto Sparrow, is the first on the […]

VectorNav Technologies, the world leader in embedded navigation solutions, introduced today a groundbreaking new line of inertial products: the VectorNav Tactical Embedded. Featuring a tactical-grade IMU and a multi-band GNSS receivers, the Tactical Embedded delivers milliradian attitude accuracy and centimeter-level positioning capability in a miniature 15 gram package. VectorNav’s Tactical Embedded line delivers unprecedented size […]

Bigfork, Montana –– Today uAvionix announced the release of pingRX Pro, a new Detect and Avoid (DAA) ADS-B Receiver for professional Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). pingRX Pro detects private and commercial aircraft operating on 978MHz and 1090MHz. The received aircraft identity, position, and altitude are visualized on a moving map in real-time allowing the UAS operator […]

Social distancing does not have to mean social isolation! Tuesday, August 25, 2020 The world-wide response to COVID-19 has changed the way we go about everything in our lives – from work, to recreation and to our day-to-day tasks. Outbackhubs is the place were you can make the most of this time to develop your […]

New Puma Smart 2500 Battery extends Puma LE’s flight time by nearly 20 percent with up to 6.5 hours of endurance, delivering longer time on station, greater range, and maximizing its multi-mission capabilities Now compatible with Puma 2 AE, Puma 3 AE and Puma LE, the Puma Bungee Launch System (BLS) expands aircraft launch options […]

The Civic Air Transport Association (www.CIVATAglobal.org) starts work today supporting rural and city authorities to assess, manage and adopt increasingly complex unmanned air system (UAS) services by creating a knowledge transfer community of governing bodies and the aviation industry. “CIVATAglobal is the global trade association of the advanced air mobility (AAM) and urban air mobility […]

When Taras Wankewycz, founder and CEO of H3 Dynamics, started the company five years ago, he saw endless applications for DBX, an autonomous deployment platform for various forms of ground robots and drones. These shelter systems could be installed at various remote industrial sites, even on building rooftops across mega-cities, so that locally based scanner […]

Cyberhawk, the global leader in drone-based inspection and creator of iHawk, a cloud-based asset visualization software, today announced that it secured a contract with a major California-based utility for the provision of UAV services. The contract, which was secured earlier this year through a competitive tender process, will see Cyberhawk support the utility’s critical wildfire prevention […]

Alpha Unmanned Systems, SL, leading manufacturer of small tactical helicopter UAVs worldwide, is pleased to announce the global release of its new Alpha 900 helicopter UAV. Built upon the successful Alpha 800 platform, the new Alpha 900 is larger, flies longer and can carry more payload than ever before. Available in two formats, Long Endurance […]

Written by Darshini Babu Ganesh Information contained in this article was provided Mr. Mark Page and Dr. Ronald Pandolfi “It’s surely our responsibility to do everything within our power to create a planet that provides a home not just for us, but for all life on earth”, says Sir David Attenborough, an environmental conservation broadcaster […]

Edmonton International Airport is a Canadian leader in the integration of and use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS also commonly called drones) at airports. Safety and security is our first priority and all drone operations at EIA are carefully managed in partnership with federal regulators, Transport Canada and Nav Canada, as well as the […]

Blue Bear is pleased to announce the addition of a new Satellite Communications (SatCom) capability to its Centurion Multi-Domain Fractionated Swarming Command and Control, (C2) System. Centurion allows users to control single, multiple or swarms of drones, from anywhere in the world, using a single command centre, or via multiple, localised, field deployed locations. Centurion […]

Louisa Smith This week I spoke at The Journey Towards Autonomy in Civil Aerospace event organised by the Aerospace Technology Institute, addressing the challenges of fully automating ATM. We tend to think of autonomous things as being about self-driving cars or machines doing things without any human input, but automation is something we are now becoming used to in our everyday lives. From our phones making suggestions for us, to our TVs automatically recording […]

The Air League will be hosting it’s 5th instalment of Leaders, Pioneers and Professionals on the 11th August 2020 at 17.00 via Facebook Live. This episode will feature Sion Roberts and Kevin Taylor who will give us an overview of the usage of drones across various industries, especially in Policing where dedicated drone units are […]

Register for the next Lightware webinar and stand a chance to win. The SF000 is an ultra-small and light laser rangefinder designed for size and weight constraint applications. Using a time-of-flight system to make very fast, accurate distance and speed measurements. Accuracy is not affected by the colour or texture of the surface, nor the […]

Aerial thermography inspection is the most efficient way for solar PV operations and maintenance (O&M) teams to identify and repair malfunctioning solar modules. Aerial inspection is nearly 10 times faster than traditional inspection methods and provides high-quality actionable insight that can be used to maximize site performance. While it is well established that aerial thermography […]

The President has approved an update to the policy governing the international sale, transfer, and subsequent use of U.S.-origin Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). This policy updates and replaces the previous policy announced in April 2018. With this change, the U.S. government is invoking its national discretion on the implementation of the Missile Technology Control Regime’s […]

Maverick Drone Systems, a leading distributor of innovative drone systems based in Savage Minnesota, has announced they are now offering Microdrones integrated systems as part of their sales products. Becoming a distributor allows Maverick Drone Systems to provide advanced Microdrones solutions that encompass all necessary components for enterprise operations. Adam Shaw, CEO & President of […]

MDH Pty Ltd is one of Australia’s largest beef cattle operations, and its history dates back to 1827. Nowadays, the family owned and operated business runs 175,000 head of cattle across 3.5 million hectares in outback Queensland. MDH is well known for strongly supporting and leading research and development within the beef industry. Monitoring huge […]

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used to inspect the runway at Cranfield Airport remotely for the first time. The flights make use of ‘drone-in-a-box’ technology with the aim of enabling routine inspections to take place with UAVs that can be automatically deployed, recovered and recharged without the need for an on-site pilot. In the future, drones […]