sUAS News

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has signed a cooperative agreement with NASA to perform a demonstration flight as part of the agency’s project to integrate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS). The objective of the demonstration, scheduled for 2020, is to tackle key challenges that prevent routine commercial UAS operations […]

The UAV Challenge organisers gratefully acknowledge the Bronze Sponsorship of CASA for the 2019 UAV Challenge. CASA has been a frequent sponsor of the UAV Challenge events over the past twelve years and is now firmly part of the UAV Challenge family. CASA provides a world class safety regulatory environment for civil air operations in […]

On August 31, 2019, DroneShield’s system was being utilised at the opening game of the football season at a major college team stadium. This deployment was part of the university’s efforts to provide protection against unmanned aerial vehicles. As has become common at sporting events, an unauthorised drone was flown over the stadium at the […]

Tassel Counts available for the 2020 growing season Sentera announces that its Tassel Count analytics product will be available to all FieldAgent™ customers in March 2020. Instead of forecasting yield using a small number of spot samples, the Sentera tassel count analytics tool allows users to more precisely calculate yields using tassel population data gathered […]

Dufour Aerospace is a young Swiss start-up on a mission to revolutionize mobility by developing electric and hybrid-electric tilt-wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Most of our development and testing has taken place at our headquarters in Visp (VS) and the nearby Raron airfield. In the past year, an increasing amount of work and […]

Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) has appointed Dr. Jaiwon Shin as Executive Vice President and Head of its newly established Urban Air Mobility Division. An internationally renowned aeronautics engineer, Dr. Shin will lead the company into a new era of developing smart mobility products within the aviation industry. “Having worked on cutting-edge aviation research and development at NASA for […]

Rolls-Royce has completed the acquisition of the electric and hybrid-electric aerospace propulsion activities of Siemens (formerly known as the eAircraft business), following a period of employee consultation. The timely execution of the deal, announced in June this year, underlines the fit of these activities to our strategy to ‘champion electrification’ and will help accelerate our […]

Ohh suits you sir (only some will get that) What a lovely looking thing! Project Heaviside has come out of hiding! The old aviation adage, of if it looks right comes to play here. Now, I would like to try and fly Heaviside! A view of the cockpit would be very interesting. I would like […]

DRONEDEK, LLC, manufacturer of DRONEDEK, announced today that it has been granted its 2nd patent for its DRONEDEK, mailbox of the future smart delivery receptacle. Drone delivery is on the horizon and the only thing more important than the drone is the receptacle. DRONEDEK’s platform-agnostic delivery receptacle received claims allowing for a heated and cooled […]

Not a good look for a unit preparing to roll out a national registration scheme. Spotted early this morning by Drone Stuff This Week regular and gardening guru Ian Hudson the CAA has just released advice. Let us hope the 4.1 million pound registration database has better security. I shamelessly lifted the image from Twitter, […]

Drones are saving lives, transforming the work of fire and police crews, and adoption rates are ‘skyrocketing’ – these were some of the key industry insights from Romeo Durscher, DJI’s Director of Public Safety Integration, during an exclusive interview with Heliguy at AirWorks 2019. Speaking to Heliguy’s content writer James Willoughby, Mr Durscher also set […]

Anduril Industries today launched the Interceptor drone as part of the Lattice AI cUAS (counter Unmanned Aerial System) solution to detect and interdict unmanned aircraft or autonomous drone systems. This system brings proven Anduril technology to the increasingly critical counter-done mission, providing an additional dimension of force protection for military personnel and installations or critical […]

Wing is creating a new kind of service to make food, medicine and other items available when you need them. We call it air delivery, and today we’re sharing a video about what we think it can be. Wing’s small, lightweight aircraft can deliver items in minutes. Our navigational software creates clear, customized routes to […]

FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced that it has acquired the intellectual property (IP) and certain operating assets of Aria Insights, Inc. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. Previously known as CyPhy Works, Inc., Aria pioneered the development of tethered small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS). Founded in 2008 by iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner […]

DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and image stabilisation technology, has partnered with French film director Nicolas Vanier for his new project based on a true story of men flying alongside birds. The environmentally conscious adventurer and film director known for filming in the wilderness from Siberia to Northern Canada, selected DJI drones and […]

LTE-enabled delivery of life-saving equipment and emergency medical supplies via beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) drones could see a 17-fold increase in the distance covered compared to current non-mobility-enabled alternatives. That’s just one finding from successful tests driven by health authorities in the Canadian province of Ontario, enabled by Ericsson LTE connectivity. The September 21-22 tests saw automated […]

We started Skydio with a simple goal: make drones useful by making them smart. Last year we introduced Skydio R1 which was our first step on this journey. It was widely recognized as a breakthrough in autonomous flight. It allowed us to put our software to the test in the most challenging real-world scenarios and […]

A model for other state education services agencies to follow, the cooperative purchasing contract with the New York State BOCES provides significant cost savings to school districts looking to implement the proven SkyOp Drone Training Curriculum which prepares high school juniors and seniors for in-demand STEM careers as full-service drone pilots. Canandaigua, N.Y. – October 2, 2019 – SkyOp LLC, […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded air carrier and operator certification to an unmanned aircraft system (UAS, or drone) delivery company, UPS Flight Forward. “This is a big step forward in safely integrating unmanned aircraft systems into our airspace, expanding access to healthcare in North Carolina […]

Funding will be used to help expand awareness and education for first responders using drones for good MIAMI – The Airborne International Response Team (AIRT), a Miami-based 501(c) non-profit organization that provides public safety and disaster response support capabilities with drone technology, today announced that it has received a grant from the Motorola Solutions Foundation, the […]

Sunbirds is an innovative company created in 2015 that specializes in the design, deployment, and implementation of fixed-wing professional UAVs. Sunbirds’ expertise is a large-scale aerial inspection. Sunbirds has a large number of projects, mainly in Central Africa and the Australian Bush. It supports its customers in their aerial mapping campaigns drone, from the acquisition […]

The British Gliding Association reports the sale and increase of airspace for Farnborough. It has been announced publicly today that Farnborough Airport has been sold to MacQuarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA). MIRA owns a majority percentage of AGS, a group that owns a number of airports including Southampton Airport. The sale follows very closely […]

A new report from the Connected Places Catapult (CPC) lays the groundwork for an Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) to allow commercial drone usage in the UK alongside traditional manned aircraft. The report is a result of a year-long Department for Transport sponsored project, working alongside NATS, Altitude Angel, ANRA Technologies, Cranfield University, the […]

The United States Postal Service (Postal Service or USPS) is investigating the feasibility of utilizing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or drones as delivery vehicles for mail as an integrated part of its vehicle delivery fleet, as well as to provide image and other data collection services. The Postal Service recognizes that the ability of UAS […]

Heliguy – one of the world’s leading drone suppliers – has opened in Dallas, Texas, as part of a major expansion into the USA – it was revealed at DJI’s AirWorks conference. With more than a decade of experience in the UAS industry and having established themselves as one of DJI’s largest and most trusted […]

The competition briefing for the Future Flight Challenge will take place in Birmingham followed by networking events in London and Glasgow UK Research and Innovation’s Future Flight Challenge was formerly launched on 24 August by the prime minister marking the start of a new wave of innovation for UK-based businesses working in all aspects of aviation. The Future Flight […]

Bayer and XAG has recently collaborated in Hangzhou, China to host a crop dusting drone demonstration on citrus trees. Justin Gong, Co-founder and Vice President of XAG, together with Bayer’s crop scientists and agricultural experts from China, Germany, India, and U.S., attended the joint convention, in which XAG showcased its Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) fruit tree solution based on Artificial Intelligence […]

Israeli Drone in a box startup Airobotics who have raised US$108.1 funding over 5 rounds appear to be in a bit of a pickle. A darling of UAM proponents Airobotics may be a victim of moving too soon. Regulations hamper true rollout of a fully autonomous set and forget system. I was directed to look […]

ideaForge Technology Pvt. Ltd. and Aaronia AG (Germany) announced a strategic partnership to integrate their solutions to provide end users with a complete and unique intrusion monitoring solution that can track dynamic threats, in the air or on the ground through both operating and monitoring drones via an integrated control center. By integrating ideaForge drones […]

MADISON, AL – GeoCue Group introduces their new hardware as a service (HaaS) Evergreen Subscription for their True View UAV LIDAR/Imagery Fusion Sensors to the drone industry. GeoCue Group has introduced a unique business model that provides customers access to the True View 410 LIDAR/dual camera imaging sensor under an “Evergreen” subscription pricing model. A […]

Blue Bear’s Blackstart drone completes first ADS-B equipped flights in the National BVLOS Experimental Corridor (NBEC). The Blackstart drone took off from Blue Bear’s flight test facility and successfully covered a 6km (EVLOS) round trip flight along the NBEC whilst broadcasting its position over ADS-B. The signal from the small, lightweight ADS-B transponder was picked up by a number of third […]

Washington: The Eno Center for Transportation, a non-profit charitable foundation, is asking the UAS industry for data to help them in developing recommendations to improve how UAS systems are integrated into the NAS. From now until October 18, 2019, Eno is conducting a survey of operators asking them details of their experience applying for waivers under Part […]

Yuneec and Leica Camera AG announced the beginning of a strategic partnership today. The first result of this collaboration was presented today in the form of the Typhoon H3 with ION L1 Pro camera. It is a drone equipped with a high-end 1″ sensor camera that was specially developed for sophisticated aerial photography and, thanks […]

KOREC is delighted to announce that the Drone Pilot Academy, our training partners in the provision of flight training and Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) accredited pilot training courses, have successfully launched their Operational Safety Case consultancy service to assist KOREC senseFly eBee users to attain EVLOS (Extended Visual Line of Sight) approval. A UK eBee user has already […]

The African Drone Forum, or ADF2020, has scaled up and moved to Rwanda, scheduled to take place from 5-7 February 2020. Why the change, you ask? Tanzania set the pace in 2018 with Africa’s first-ever historic gathering of drone advocates, and we thank them for their commitment for year zero and now as they pass […]

New Disaster Relief Program Will Provide Emergency Responders With DJI Drone Technology And Training DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, today unveiled a new Disaster Relief Program to support first responders in the United States with access to DJI’s industry-leading drone technology, for response and recovery efforts during and after major disasters such […]

FreeRail Project – Automated recording of vegetation near the tracks and of storm damage along the Deutsche Bahn network with autonomously operated drones (Trinity) The “FreeRail” project, which has been running since September 2019, will be funded under the Modernitätsfond (“mFUND“) funding directive with a total of EUR 2.82 million from 1 September 2019, 67% […]

Former Intel Business Operations Manager to drive creation and expansion of Aurora Technology Arts’s new drone light show business unit. Aurora Technology Arts (ATA) is proud to announce Krešimir Dulić as CCO (Chief Customer Officer) and CTO (Chief Technology Officer) for their new drone light show business unit. With more than seven years of experience and deep knowledge […]

DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, is setting a new standard for easy-to-use agricultural drone applications with P4 Multispectral, the world’s first fully integrated multispectral imaging drone designed for precision agriculture and environmental management. P4 Multispectral combines data from six separate sensors to measure the health of crops, from individual […]

Revolutionary FLIR MUVE C360 Drone-Mounted Gas Monitor Provides Faster, Safer Way to Remotely Sense Gas and Chemical Incidents ARLINGTON, Va., September 24, 2019 ― FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) today announced the FLIR MUVE™ C360, the industry’s first multi-gas detector specifically built for unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The MUVE C360 will transform how emergency response teams approach chemical, industrial, or […]

Washington, D.C. – (September 24, 2019) – Measure is pleased to announce that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has approved the use of Measure Ground Control™, a drone program management platform, for LAPD’s Small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS) Program. The LAPD will use the software to provide flight control, management, and oversight including detailed […]

UAV Turbines, Inc., a pioneer of microturbine technology, today announced the inaugural flight of its Monarch 5 engine, a first-of-its-kind microturbine propulsion system, at Griffiss International Airport. This new turboprop technology is engineered to provide mid-sized commercial and military unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) with a reliable, efficient, safe, heavy-fuel propulsion system. The Monarch 5 is […]

Research explores landscape and perspectives surrounding use of Chinese sUAS by America’s First Responders MIAMI, FL – As a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers seeks to ban Chinese drone purchases by federal agencies, new research from DRONERESPONDERS – the world’s leading non-profit organization supporting public safety UAS – examines the perspectives of America’s first responders operating […]

Company has pioneered faster radio frequency technology to take down dangerous drones El Segundo, CA (September 24, 2019) — Epirus, the only U.S. company developing software-defined electromagnetic pulse (EMP) technology designed to take down dangerous drones, recently won a new type of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile […]

Former Intel Exec to Drive Continued Expansion of Enterprise Visual Data Management Solutions; Makes Delair ‘Debut’ at Upcoming AirWorks Conference TOULOUSE, France – September 23, 2019 – Delair, a leading provider of visual data management solutions for enterprises, today announced the appointment of Baptiste Tripard to the position of Vice President, Global Business Development. The […]

Ben Marcus It’s been roughly 4 years since AirMap was founded with the mission of enabling more drones to operate more flights and deliver more benefits to society. Since then, we’ve made tremendous progress in extending digital, mobile, and automated technologies for both airspace authorities and drone operators in order to safely integrate drones into […]

How many times have we heard that the FAA needs/wants data, and every time the data comes from sources not on the payroll, it appears to contradict the urgency, money, and manpower necessary to stretch the NAS-integration dying show out for almost 30 years. Some light housekeeping and supporting information: The maps referenced in this […]

The UAV Challenge Technical Committee has now completed its reviews of the Deliverable 1 documents from teams that have entered the UAV Challenge Medical Rescue event that will be held in 2020. After some clarifications from some teams, 47 teams have been given a Go decision and progress to the next stage. Those teams have […]

The Department of Special Training of the Police Academy in Katowice, Poland, organised a seminar on: The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the Police and the way police officers deal with UAV operators who violate legal regulations. This seminar was attended by more officers from the Police Headquarters, Warsaw Police, and others from […]

The large-scale collaborative project, which is both a UK-first and a designated Government Drone Pathfinder Project, is celebrating the successful completion of the first stage of beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight trials in segregated airspace. Conducted by Wiltshire based aviation specialists, Callen-Lenz, the completion of the trials (which covered an unprecedented total distance of 688km BVLOS over a combined 640 minutes), mark a […]