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The UK’s first Protector RG Mk1 aircraft has successfully completed its first flight after coming off the production line. The latest milestone in the UK Protector programme follows the announcement in July that the first three aircraft were being manufactured following the award by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) of a £65 million contract to […]

An Airbus Zephyr high-altitude UAS broke up in-flight after encountering unstable atmospheric conditions which resulted in a series of uncommanded rolls and an uncontrolled spiral descent over remote northern Western Australia, a new ATSB report details. The Zephyr unmanned aerial system (UAS), designed as an ultra-light high-altitude pseudo‑satellite, had launched from Wyndham Airport on 28 […]

Aerospace Engineer / System Safety Engineer II Location: San Luis Obispo, CAUS Citizenship Required for this Position: YesRelocation Available: NoShift: 1st Shift Company Overview: Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. (ESAero) is a growing aerospace company in the San Luis Obispo area that provides various services which include but are not limited to: rapid system development, on-demand […]

ZeroAvia, the leading innovator in decarbonising commercial aviation, has completed the world first hydrogen fuel cell-powered flight of a commercial-grade aircraft. The flight took place yesterday at the company’s R&D facility in Cranfield, England, with the Piper M-class six-seat plane completing taxi, takeoff, a full pattern circuit, and landing. ZeroAvia’s achievement is the first step to […]

With a background in analytics and acoustic solutions, Mr. Shaun Koo, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of H3 Zoom.AI, took what he calls a “crazy” leap into building inspection and facilities management. His vision was to disrupt the industry with drones. But back in 2016 when he first conceptualised this idea, drones were not yet […]

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has developed an unmanned vehicle for the Ministry’s Weapons Development Administration, in collaboration with foreign and domestic companies. The project goal is the development of a small UAV or drone able to fly autonomously a distance of at least 8Km with a carrying capacity of 150 litres with a minimum weight […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) conducted captive carry Sparrowhawk Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) flight demonstrations on September 16-17, 2020. The Sparrowhawk aircraft is designed as an airborne launch and recovery demonstrator aircraft tailored to fit GA-ASI platforms, and is focused on Advanced Battle Management System’s attritableONE technologies. Sparrowhawk iterates on the DARPA Gremlins […]

WhiteFox, a global leader in drone airspace security, announced today that Daniel Doimo, a former President at Blackberry/Cylance and President and COO of Cylance, an AI cybersecurity unicorn, will be joining the Board of Directors. Daniel is a highly experienced global business executive. He has successfully led teams in Europe, Asia, and the United States both in start-ups and large […]

Drone taxes are coming! In late August 2020, the Parliament proposed 2 draft laws (Bills) concerning the levy for the registration of drones in Australia. The levy will initially be nil for the current financial year and afterwards could be up to $300. The levy will commence on 30 September 2020 for RPA and not […]

Emesent, a groundbreaking autonomous mapping and analytics company, today announced a new investment from In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit strategic investor that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the defence and government communities of the U.S, Australia, and their allies. The strategic investment will help power Emesent’s expansion into new industries including defence, security, and emergency response. In-Q-Tel’s […]

Rolls-Royce has completed testing of the ground-breaking technology that will power the world’s fastest all-electric plane. All the technology has been tested on a full-scale replica of the plane’s core, called an ‘ionBird’, including a 500hp electric powertrain powerful enough to set world speed records and a battery with enough energy to supply 250 homes. […]

Blighter Surveillance Systems (www.blighter.com) the British designer and manufacturer of electronic-scanning radars and surveillance solutions, has launched the latest in its range of market-leading radars, the A800 3D drone detection radar for land, air and sea surveillance. The radar’s main function is to detect and locate commercial ‘hobby’ drones in 3D space. Its optimised air […]

D-Fend Solutions, the leader in RF cyber-based counter-drone takeover technology, announced today that Michael Huerta has joined its Advisory Board. The former head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will bring his aviation safety and security industry expertise to assist in D-Fend’s rapid growth, contributing to the company’s market leadership in the counter small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) […]

IAI signed today an agreement to acquire 50% of the equity of BlueBird Aero Systems. BlueBird, a leading UAS developer and integrator in the small tactical arena, has been providing its solutions to Israeli forces and worldwide customers for close to two decades. As part of the transaction, IAI is acquiring the holdings of Piramal […]

ANRA Technologies, a leader in UAS Traffic Management (UTM), today announced the release of ANRA MissionManager™. Building upon years of experience developing and deploying its drone operations software platform, MissionManager is the only turnkey drone operations solution that integrates fleet management, compliance, risk mitigation, flight automation, data capture, and analysis into a single platform. This […]

In the past two years, UAV DACH e.V. succeeded in establishing its reputation for organizing high-quality conferences for an international audience interested in the sociological, political and technical aspects of unmanned aviation. UAV DACH e.V. is now going to continue and we cordially invite you to join us at the EUROPEAN DRONE FORUM by UAV […]

This is an excellent fully-funded PhD opportunity in the area of autonomy, navigation, and artificial intelligence, aiming to pave a way to wider implementation of autonomous systems, such as drones or self-driving cars into our everyday life. Although these systems are in use for some years, robustness of their autonomous operations, including the ability to […]

Federal Aviation Administration grants special waiver to allow civilian operations to inspect critical communications infrastructure in the U.S. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted Skyward, A Verizon company, a temporary waiver that allows company pilots to fly the Percepto Sparrow drone from their homes to inspect critical communications infrastructure near the Big Hollow wildfire in […]

Jacqueline Sharma, VP of People Operations, and Devon DiPietro, Director of Marketing Redwood City, Calif. — Skydio, the leading US drone company and world leader in autonomous flight, announced today the appointment of key leadership roles Jacqueline Sharma as Vice President of People Operations and Devon DiPietro as Director of Marketing. They join a growing team of talent that already […]

Atlanta-based drone manufacturer Sonin Hybrid has just unveiled a revolutionary 140MPH+ drone (with FAA waiver) built exclusively for first responders. The Sonin Hybrid Recruit has a fully-equipped flight time over three hours and can reach speeds over three times faster than most of the fastest commercial drones available today. As a result of its enhanced […]

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – As industries across the globe come to grips with the “new normal” of a COVID-19 challenges, drone service providers (DSP) are launching new levels of innovation across a range of public and commercial sectors. Last year, Barclays projected drones will lower costs by $100 billion across a majority of industries. The […]

IMSAR and Primoco UAV have successfully performed integration and preliminary flight testing of the NSP-7 Synthetic Aperture Radar on the Primoco One 150 UAV. Live flight tests in the Czech Republic verified the aircraft performance and confirmed flight endurance of up to 10 hours. With the SAR radar installed on the portside of the fuselage, […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has been awarded a $13.5 million contract to upgrade MQ-9 Block 1 and Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft for the Air National Guard (ANG). The procurement includes Generator Power Distribution Modules (GPDM) and kits to integrate the Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) pod, LITENING pod and other mission payloads. […]

The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) has launched a new member drone scheme with specialist broker Flock, offering easy to access and flexible cover for commercial drones such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The new scheme is underwritten by leading aviation underwriters who bring A+ rated capacity and provide […]

Barely nine months since the launch of their Drone Research and Innovation Centre, Blue Blocks Montessori School, Hyderabad has filed for a record 5 patents for Inventions in Drones designed by their young students. The slew of innovations has been made possible by young inventors to tackle new-age challenges faced by society. While many of these inventions are […]

The Drone Racing League (DRL), the global, professional drone racing property, today announced the 2020 DRL Allianz World Championship Season and their first-ever Drone Racing League Simulator on Xbox. Featuring a new competition format, new video game on console, and new ways for fans to stream the sport, the 2020 Season will kick off a new era […]

We are delighted to announce that the Fujitsu Future Support Challenge Competition has been re-opened. The competition will be running to an adjusted timeline and format taking into account limitations on face to face events. Now in its 11th year the Fujitsu Future Support Challenge Competition seeks to encourage innovative thought from across the Logistics […]

Inertial Labs Releases U-Blox Based, Low-Cost GPS-Aided Inertial Navigation System, INS-DU with Accurate Positioning and Dual Antenna Heading. The new INS-DU delivers high accuracy RTK position for Air, Land, and Marine Applications. Paeonian Springs, VA: The new INS-DU is a high performance strapdown system that determines position, velocity, and absolute orientation to any platform that it […]

Today, Matternet, developer of the world’s leading urban drone logistics platform, announced it is expanding operations to Asia through a new business partnership with Japan Airlines (JAL). The partnership is to deploy the Matternet M2 drone system in Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s new “drone logistics business development project”, and utilize the system to assess drone delivery opportunities in Japan. Through […]

MissionGO, a provider of unmanned aviation solutions that are transforming logistics, and Nevada Donor Network, an organ procurement organization (OPO) serving the state of Nevada, today announced two successful test flights carrying a human organ and tissue via an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) on Sept. 17. The first flight transported research corneas from Southern Hills Hospital […]

Mumbai, India – September 22, 2020: ideaForge, India’s largest manufacturer of drones for defence, homeland security, and industrial applications, has launched its new drone RYNO, a micro category (<2 kg) survey-grade drone designed and specialized for high accuracy mapping applications. It enables users to perform highly efficient land survey operations to develop accurate maps and 3D […]

Today​, ​photogrammetry leader Pix4D is announcing the commercial release of Pix4Dmatic: the digital photogrammetry software for accurate and fast corridor and large scale mapping. Pix4Dmatic has been created to suit an evolving demand as professionals map bigger and bigger areas around the world. Projects that would have previously been mapped by aircraft are now being […]

Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum depending on experience Contract type: Permanent We are the UK’s aviation regulator and recognised as a world leader in its field. Our activities are diverse, enabling the aviation industry to meet the highest safety standards, and we pride ourselves on our ability to adapt to the constantly evolving aviation environment. The […]

At Flock we’re reinventing commercial insurance from the ground up. We use cutting edge technology to price, insure, and mitigate fleet risks, and having soared to dominance in the UK drone industry we’ve now set our sights on becoming the go-to insurer for the connected and autonomous world. We’re doing insurance very differently. Rather than simply insuring fleets, we […]

The quick exponential growth in the market of the professional drones, sets important issues in the aeronautical and aerospace sectors. The continuous growth in the unmanned aerial platforms development creates a real expectation of an international overcrowded sky. This will not only make our daily actions be totally transformed, but also there will have to […]

Aerodyne Group is teaming up with the Middle East’s leading infrastructure provider and system integrator, Al-Babtain LeBlanc, to accelerate the adoption of drone-based solutions in the region. Aerodyne Group, a Malaysia-headquartered international DT3 (Drone Tech, Data Tech, and Digital Transformation) solutions provider and Al-Babtain LeBlanc, a leading Middle East-based system integrator and provider of telecom, […]

STIM318 is a small, tactical grade, low weight, high-performance non-GPS aided Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) with greatly improved accelerometer performance. It contains 3 highly accurate MEMS gyros, 3 ultra-high stability accelerometers and 3 inclinometers. The IMU is factory calibrated and compensated for temperature effects over its entire operating temperature range. STIM318 is a cost-effective ITAR free […]

After nearly 18 years of having fun with fellow pilots, Eagle Tree will be closing. We will continue to take orders via our webshop (for in-stock items) through September 30, 2020. Warranty service will continue through October 31, 2020. For warranty service or other inquiries, please open a web ticket with us at http://ticket.eagletreesystems.com/ or email us […]

Rome, NY –STAEREA, a company dedicated to Aerial Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing through the use of drones, has partnered with Microdrones to become a distributor in Spain. Precision agriculture and topography are two sectors that STAEREA specializes in, using drones to capture terrain variability, three-dimensional modelling, and the measurement and morphology of soils. They also […]

Amidst growing concern that recreational drones may pose a danger to manned aircraft, Kiwi drone and RC model enthusiast Bruce Simpson has come up with a valuable new piece of technology to ensure that this risk is minimised. The small hand-held device uses the ADSB transmissions from manned aircraft to alert drone and model fliers […]

Parrot’s mobile app, designed specifically for its ANAFI drone platform, delivers on the company’s legacy and promise of exceptional data protection PARIS Parrot, the leading European drone group, is pleased to announce the results of an independent data-privacy and security audit of its FreeFlight 6 mobile application for the ANAFI series of drones. The extensive […]

‘Arrow Drone Zone’ will enable automated drones and general aviation to harmoniously co-exist in a real-world environment London, UK; The Thames Valley to the west of London will be the site of what is expected to be the world’s first commercial drone corridor in open and unrestricted airspace according to plans submitted to the UK’s […]

Everdrone, a global leader in autonomous drone technology, recently announced that its drones are now being used to deliver Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to the scene of cardiac arrests in real-world emergencies – a unique first-of-its-kind project The service, currently reaching 80,000 residents in the Gothenburg area, is part of a collaboration with Sweden’s national emergency […]

With drones undoubtedly being the technology of the future, with uses in every industry, the youth of today must be educated on how to use them. However, the current issue is a lack of educational resources for those who need to learn the most: high schoolers and young adults. The solution? COM3T Drones, which is making […]

DroneView Technologies announced today that Michael Crain, a Certified Photogrammetrist, has joined the company as Director of Geospatial Services, a newly created position. Michael has spent the past 32 years in aerial mapping and geospatial services. He started his professional career at the aerial mapping firm Western Air Maps in Kansas City Kansas and then […]

In 2012, Congress passed the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112-95). Section 332 of Public Law 112-95 (codified at 49 U.S.C. 44802) directed the FAA to develop a comprehensive plan to safely accelerate the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS). As part of that plan, the FAA issued […]

CHESEAUX-SUR-LAUSANNE, Switzerland, 18 September 2020 – Ames Construction, one of the largest family-owned general contractors in the United States, has significantly improved the safety and accuracy of its surveying at a copper mining site in Arizona, thanks to innovative technology from senseFly, the global leader in fixed-wing drones. By using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Ames […]

IDSA Awards are a collection of awards presented in recognition of significant contribution to the Society or the industrial design profession, excellence in academic advancement, or personal achievement. The awards outlined here are presented annually at, or in close proximity to, the International Design Conference. IDSA’s Awards Committee, made up of IDSA members and chaired […]

AirWarden to Help Curb Increase in Drone-borne Contraband Deliveries by Providing Early Warning of Drone and Pilot Location with Low False Alarm Rate. Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) will deploy AeroDefense’s AirWarden™ Drone and Pilot Detect, Locate, and Track System at two sites and four facilities to decrease and ultimately prevent drug, cell phone, and other drone-borne contraband delivery […]

The webinar will initially review currently available propulsion technologies in the UAV/UAS/RPAS sector and then see how they stack up against existing and potential future customer requirements. It will then move onto specifically discuss why AIE believes rotary engines are the premier solution for this application. This webinar is available to limited participants only. If […]