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AAR (NYSE: AIR), a leading aviation services provider to commercial airlines and governments worldwide, has announced the integration of Donecle drone technology into its award-winning maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) operations. AAR´s Miami MRO facility is the first in its global network to use the fully automated drone technology to drive operational and cost efficiencies, where […]

The Science and Technology Committee’s report states ‘It is vital that the Government respects recreational drone user and model flying communities and ensures that any further regulation or legislation does not dissuade people from joining such communities.’ This is absolutely crucial and we completely agree. Apart from being a hobby enjoyed by over a hundred […]

Rome, NY –PRECISION PRODUCTS, the leading supplier of data capture and positioning technologies to surveying and engineering professionals throughout Southern Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, is becoming a Distributor of Microdrones. Available immediately, Precision Products is offering Microdrones Integrated Systems that come with everything a commercial user needs to get started using drones for surveying and […]

After five years of running Skylogic Research and the Droneanalyst blog, I’ve decided to take a sabbatical so I can discern the next adventure. Looking back, it has been quite a journey. Honestly, it’s been a lot of fun to be involved in the formation of the commercial drone industry. When I published my first […]

Oklahoma State University (OSU) and Vigilant Aerospace Systems (Vigilant) conducted a demonstration flight utilizing OSU’s 13-mile beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) corridor east of Stillwater, Oklahoma. The demonstration was used to evaluate BVLOS capabilities and to demonstrate Vigilant’s latest FlightHorizon software which provided airspace situational awareness throughout the flight. The flight was the first full exercise […]

For the first time, a VTOL fixed-wing features corridor mapping, enabling coverage of tens of kilometers/miles in just a few flights. The new corridor mapping feature in the latest (1.10) Wingtra software release enables fast, efficient coverage of long, narrow stretches with either of WingtraOne’s RX1R II or QX1 payloads. With the touch of a few buttons, […]

uAvionix Corporation today announced it has acquired AeroVonics LLC, an award-winning startup avionics company based in Albuquerque, NM. uAvionix Corporation will incorporate the AV-20S Multi-Function Display (MFD) and the AV-30 Primary Flight Display (PFD) products into their existing, low-cost and easily-installed product line. The acquisition marks uAvionix’s first foray into advanced digital cockpit displays for the General Aviation (GA) market. […]

A sold out crowd of over 450 attendees representing all 58 California Sheriff’s Department Search and Rescue teams as well as California National Guard and CAL OES (California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services) were treated to three days of intense training, seminars and demonstrations in all facets of search and rescue. The SAREX 2019 event was headlined […]

HUNTSVILLE, AL – The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Information Sharing Analysis Organization, Inc. (UAS ISAO), an Alabama-based 501(c)6 organization fostering stakeholder collaboration within the public safety unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) sector, and DRONERESPONDERS, the world’s fasted growing non-profit program supporting public safety UAS, today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and collaboration. The MOU, […]

By Douglas Spotted Eagle First and foremost, there are exceptionally capable counter-UAS solutions available from developers and manufacturers with great integrity. This article is not about them. This is about the “jump on the bandwagon to capture bucks by generating uninformed fear” businesses that are cropping up like weeds in a concrete parking lot. Otherwise […]

McMinnville, OR: The Northwest UAV NW-44 Heavy-Fuel Engine has reached the noteworthy milestone of logging over 21,000 operational hours. With an innovative design that focuses on maintainability, Northwest UAV’s NW-44 UAV Engine has developed a reputation for being the UAV industry’s reliable, cost-effective propulsion solution. Purpose-built for small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that require high […]

Altitude Angel, the world’s leading unmanned traffic management (UTM) technology provider, has showcased to the European Commission the market-leading technology it deployed during the recent Gulf of Finland project at Digital Transport Days 2019. Hosted by INDanube, Digital Transport Days 2019 is taking place 7-9 October in Helsinki, Finland. The conference, which offers a European viewpoint […]

Hoverfly Technologies Inc. (“Hoverfly”), the manufacturer of the LiveSky tethered drone, announced today that it has been awarded a $10 million sole-source contract by a U.S. government agency. LiveSky provides aerial monitoring and communications relay solutions for national defense, intelligence, and homeland security customers. The sole-source contract has an initial ceiling value of $10 million and […]

We need your assistance in an urgent matter. Late last week, the FAA unexpectedly informed us that, contrary to earlier commitments to AMA, the agency is planning to limit all recreational model aircraft operations to 400 feet in controlled airspace – with no exceptions. Additionally, the FAA is proposing restrictions in uncontrolled airspace to altitudes that […]

As you read this, the ASTM proposed standard for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) remote identification (RID) is up for F38 Committee vote for the second time this year. It has until Oct 16 to be voted on by committee members. I’m going to vote against it, again. I don’t want to be one of those […]

3DroneMapping has recently opened its doors in Uganda. This strategic move is to supply the growing demand for affordable and high resolution aerial surveys in East and Central Africa. Assisted by our partners in East Africa, we have been able to offer much-reduced site establishment costs as well as far quicker response times for our […]

Airspace security technology company launches consultancy, Dedrone Defense, providing authorized customers a complete, detect and defeat system to protect themselves against adversary drones Dedrone, the market leader in counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) technology, today announced the purchase of DroneDefender from Battelle. This purchase includes all assets and intellectual property associated with DroneDefender. With this acquisition, […]

Across the world, the Military, Public Security, Humanitarian and Intelligence Agencies are being constantly deployed. The global scene is becoming more complex and not a day goes by without the media reporting the appearance of a climate disaster, an attack, a violent demonstration or a large-scale operation. To deal with these troubles, the industrial sectors, […]

Septentrio and CORE partner up to develop a GPS/GNSS receiver which will make use of Japan’s Centimeter Level Augmentation Service (CLAS). CLAS corrections are broadcast directly via QZSS constellation to enable high-accuracy positioning across Japan. Tokyo, Japan and Leuven, Belgium – October 8th, 2019 – Septentrio, a leader in high-precision GNSS technology, and CORE, a leading Japanese system integrator with extensive experience in GNSS, are pleased to announce an […]

Women And Drones, the leading organization dedicated to driving excellence in the unmanned industry by achieving equity and participation of women in all disciplines and across all employment sectors, today announced a new strategic alliance with DRONERESPONDERS, the world’s fastest growing non-profit program promoting public safety UAS. Together, the two organizations will promote awareness, training, […]

DroneShield Ltd (ASX: DRO or DRO.AU) (“DroneShield”), a publicly-traded leader in the emerging industry of drone security solutions, has previously announced a partnership with BT Group Plc (“BT”), the largest telecommunications company in the UK. The partnership, whereby having selected DroneShield as its counterdrone solutions provider, BT is now offering counterdrone solutions to its entire UK customer […]

Echodyne, the manufacturer of innovative, high-performance, small electronically scanned array (ESA) radars for government and commercial markets, announced today that its EchoGuard radar has been selected by Security Radar Integrators (SRI) as its preferred 3D radar sensor for C-UAS security solutions. The radar is recognized in the industry as the best-performing sensor in its class and is a critical […]

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced the OV12D, a 1.4 micron 12 MP image sensor with selective conversion gain (SCG) for the optimum balance between low-light image quality and high dynamic range (HDR). The OV12D features a large 1/2.4″ optical format, on-chip 4-cell remosaic color filter, high speed […]

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 […]