sUAS News

Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus is partnering with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism to send 30 employees, including 12 law enforcement officers, through unmanned aircraft systems training from May through June. The employees will attend sUAS Commercial Remote Pilot Training and then be eligible to sit for the Federal Aviation Administration exam to become certified […]

Robot Aviation AS of Norway is pleased to announce the acquisition of UAS -Europe AB located in the Swedish Aviation Capital of Linköping. The acquisition reinforces the vision of Robot Aviation to provide its customers with long-endurance, safe and easy-to-operate a wide variety of drones UAS (drones) for Military & Commercial applications, with increasing operational […]

The Unmanned Systems Sciences Program in the College of Aviation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus has selected the Penguin C unmanned aircraft system (UAS) from UAV Factory for flight training with student operators and pilots at the nation’s largest undergraduate UAS program. “The Penguin C UAS meets our requirements as a complete system,” […]

COPTRZ has been announced as the exclusive supplier of UAV solutions to Defence Forces Ireland. The force has invested in their drone fleet with the purchase of four specialist UAVs capable of carrying both thermal and visual cameras simultaneously. The new drones will be operated by the Corps of Engineers and will aid in peacekeeping […]

Jetoptera, an aviation startup developing powerful UAVs and realistic flying cars, will present its breakthrough fluidic-propulsion system at AUSVI XPONENTIAL 2018, both as an exhibitor at the convention and as a competitor in this year’s Startup Showdown. Jetopera’s revolutionary technology has recently been demonstrated in flight, propelling an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) exceeding 55 pounds. […]

Last year in June (https://bit.ly/2JNdz16), following a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian government cleared a deal with the United States for the purchase of 22 MQ-9A Guardian surveillance drones, to be used for reconnaissance in the Indian Ocean (as both the US and India have an […]

Flock, a government-backed drone insurance startup, has unlocked its ‘pay-as-you-fly’ insurance and safety smartphone app (Flock Cover) to recreational drone pilots. Up until now, the Flock Cover app has been available to commercial and training pilots in the UK, of which over 1,000 have registered on the platform since it launched in December. Now those […]

From June 11th to June 15th, 2018, Eurosatory LAB will open its doors: a new space dedicated to emerging and innovative companies with applications in land and airland defence and security. Up to 70 French and foreign start-ups will present, for the duration of the event, their innovations and technologies to official delegations and industry […]

Sharper Shape’s Heliscope™ 2.0 launches a new generation of onboard data collection technology that brings unprecedented speed, efficiency, and productivity improvements to the utility inspection industry GRAND FORKS, ND – (April 26, 2018) – Sharper Shape, a leading provider of unmanned aerial utility inspection solutions, announced the global release of its latest product, the Heliscope™ […]

Paper Open access published in Remote Sensing on February 12, 2018. Authors: Ana I. de Castro, Jorge Torres-Sánchez, José M. Peña, Francisco M. Jiménez-Brenes, Ovidiu Csillik and Francisca López-Granados This study was carried out by researchers from the imaPing group (www.ias.csic.es/imaping) led by Dr. Francisca López Granados of the Institute of Sustainable Agriculture of Córdoba […]

Europe’s leading UTM software provider and airspace integration start-up, Altitude Angel, is expanding its senior leadership team with the appointment of key industry figureheads. Mike Gadd joins as Head of International Regulatory Affairs from the UK Civil Aviation Authority, where he was Policy Lead for UAS. Phil Binks, formerly employed at NATS as a Domain Expert in […]

What’s New: At AUVSI Xponential 2018, Intel disclosed details of Intel® Insight Platform, a digital asset management system enabling effective aerial data management and analyses. It also demonstrated Intel® Mission Control – next-generation flight planning software – and new updates for the Intel® Falcon™ 8+ system: additional payloads for greater data capture, as well as distance hold […]

Kittyhawk, the market leader in enterprise drone operations software, today announced a collaboration with Jeppesen, a Boeing Company, where the companies have started working toward being to offer digital airspace authorization directly from the FAA into Kittyhawk’s platform. Upon FAA approval, Kittyhawk’s elite enterprise customers will be able to receive digital authorization to operate within […]

Flyability announces a partnership with Exelon AeroLabs which becomes an authorized reseller of Flyability’s Elios, the collision-tolerant indoor inspection and exploration drone. After the acquisition of 15 Elios to equip each of its nuclear sites, Exelon joins forces with Flyability via AeroLabs to help the industry adopt the Elios. The story between Exelon and Flyability […]

Upcoming regulations will require unmanned aerial systems (UAS, drones) to have remote electronic identification (eID) and tracking capabilities. The UAS thereby broadcasts a unique identifier along with its position by means of radio, enabling detection, identification, and tracking of the vehicle. Reliable identification is an essential element of airspace and traffic management, and thus a […]

HAZON Solutions (“HAZON”) and PrecisionHawk today announced a strategic partnership where HAZON will serve as the preferred training partner for PrecisionHawk’s Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) waiver consulting program. “This partnership is the perfect marriage of resources between two best-in-breed companies,” said HAZON CEO and co-founder David A. Culler, Jr. CAPT, USN (ret.). “Under […]

What does it mean to deliver actionable insight from the data drones gathers while ensuring safe and efficient fleet management? Optelos has identified streamlining Enterprise operations as a priority. Their solution is aimed at making drone data management and analytics as efficient as possible, but that process is going to be easier thanks to the integration of Consortiq’s […]

Measure Australia, Australia’s largest drone service provider, has acquired Droneworx Pty Ltd, a NSW-based drone services company. As part of the acquisition, Brendon De Witts, Founder of Droneworx, has been appointed as the new Chief Pilot of Measure Australia. De Witts has over 2000 flight hours on remotely piloted aircraft systems and brings significant experience to […]

ARGUS International, Inc. is pleased to announce Skytec, LLC as the world’s first Drone as a Service (DaaS) provider to complete an ARGUS Unmanned Audit. The Platinum Rating is the highest ARGUS rating an organization operating unmanned aircraft can achieve. Only companies who have demonstrated successful implementation of industry best practices relative to their operations and maintenance […]

NovAtel is pleased to introduce several new precision positioning solutions for space-constrained applications. With enhanced positioning accuracy in a compact form, the PwrPak7D, PwrPak7DE1, and OEM7600 are ideal for automotive, airborne and other smaller unmanned systems. The PwrPak7D and PwrPak7D-E1 dual antenna, multi-frequency enclosures, OEM7600 receiver board, plus NovAtel’s new Waypoint® Inertial Explorer® Express post-processing […]

Consortiq is bringing together the tools to ensure that drone operators adhere to regulatory and insurance restrictions, via its new visionary concept, AssureTech. The benefit to drone pilots is reassurance that they have documentation of compliance if needed; the benefit to risk management officers is that an approved and agreed-upon standard of factors has been […]

Lynx VTOL is a vertical takeoff and landing drone for precision agriculture and surveying. The new VTOL design is based on the existing long-endurance Lynx airframe, but can takeoff and land like a copter thanks to four dedicated vertical thrust motors. Lynx VTOL blends the ease-of-use and flexibility of a multirotor with the endurance and […]

Since its release in 2013, the SkyRanger R60 has captured real-time aerial intelligence across 30 countries, for well over 100,000 collective hours of operation. The world’s most demanding UAS operators have come to rely on the SkyRanger when lives and livelihoods hang in the balance. With the new R80, Aeryon is pushing the small UAS […]

Leading drone InsurTech software firm Drone Software Canada Inc. (DSC), Canada’s leading provider of UAV automation software for the insurance and roofing industries has been awarded a Nation-wide Complex Restricted Standing Special Flight Operations Certificate from Transport Canada. This advanced Standing SFOC allows DSC to operate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or ‘drones’) weighing 25 kg […]

With a prototype completion date set for beginning of May 2018, Northwest UAV has completed design work and has begun prototyping their new NW-88 multi-fuel twin-cylinder engine. Using design elements from their internationally deployed NW-44 multi-fuel engine, the NW-88 engine system is set to offer the reliability and efficiency of the NW-44 to a new […]

3W-International’s performance partner, Sky Power GmbH, has introduced its engine and product concept at just the right time before the leading trade fair, Xponential 2018, in Denver. Karl Schudt, managing director of Sky Power GmbH, explains the company’s goals. You introduced a whole series of new products in April. Can you explain Sky Power’s product […]

Farmers should be cautious of drone imagery being offered by rogue operators, researchers have warned. The University of Queensland and University of New England collaborative study has shown that “off-the-shelf” drone imagery products, sold to growers for up to $4000 per farm in some cases, are unlikely to provide accurate information about the health of crops. Researcher Yu-Hsuan Tu, […]

Jetoptera’s products are named for the maximum take off thrust produced by the aircraft. At the smallest end, the Jetoptera 55 fits into the part 107 maximum of 55 lbs. In order to meet requirements for this total weight, it is powered by turbojets rather than our propulsion system. It still benefits from our novel […]

Customers Will Benefit from Faster Access to Asset Health and Increased Asset Visibility, Directly Translating to Lower O&M Expenditures Ardenna, the leading provider of automated detection and classification software for image data from infrastructure inspections and HUVRdata, the leading provider of Enterprise Industrial Asset Management Reporting and Analytic solutions to Fortune 500 Energy and Renewables […]

FLYING-CAM, the world leader in Design and Manufacturing of Unmanned Helicopter, as well as the pioneer of professional drone filming services, celebrates its 30th anniversary with a World Premiere of its latest product, the DISCOVERY, at Xponential 2018 in Denver, USA (Booth #3922). Winners of 2 Oscar Award ® and 1 Emmy Award ®, as […]

Launches iXM Metric Cameras and Motorized Lenses COPENHAGEN, April 30, 2018 ― Phase One Industrial today launched the iXM series: a breakthrough aerial camera platform driven by the world’s fastest medium-format imaging sensor. Engineered for UAV-imaging missions, the iXM 100MP is a high-productivity metric camera with a range of high-resolution lenses. The iXM is ready […]

With the evolution of the drone industry comes the emergence of heightened risks involved. Allianz Group’s specialist corporate insurer, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) announced today that it has partnered with Israel-based drone safety systems company ParaZero. Founded in 2014, ParaZero specializes in designing, developing and manufacturing safety solutions for commercial Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) operators to […]

April has been a busy month for the Flying High Team. We are working closely with the city technical leads and key organisations to shape the five use cases selected for the technical and economic feasibility studies. The team have also been visiting the cities to develop and facilitate stakeholder workshops, which will provide input […]

Such internationally acclaimed research centres and universities as Stanford University, Rochester Institute of Technology and Aurora Research Institute have studied, tested, and used in their work the drone control software UgCS (Unmanned Ground Control Software), developed by Latvian company SPH Engineering. The software was used to study coral reefs, snow depth, and species diversity as […]

Does future technology spell the end of drone training? In the second article of this series we looked at the regulatory landscape and how the trend is moving towards a light-touch approach where online assessment will be the norm across Europe and the EU for the clear majority of commercial users. Alongside the second article […]

Calling all drone enthusiasts! Are you – or do you know – someone who is using drones for the good of humanity? The FAI – World Air Sports Federation – is on a quest to find an inspirational recipient worthy of the Prince Alvaro de Orleans-Borbon Grant – a $20,000 cash injection for air sports […]

Readers and YouTube viewers will recall that New Zealand television celebrity Rod Vaughan had a forced landing on the 28th of March 2018 that ended with ZK LFD, an Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat overturning. Mr Vaughan believes he suffered a drone strike. Speaking to the New Zealand Herald Mr Vaughan and flight instructor Cliff McChesney said […]

Delair, a leading supplier of commercial drone solutions, today announced the global availability of its breakthrough Delair UX11 fixed-wing UAV, an innovative hardware-software platform that provides highly accurate images for survey-grade mapping, with onboard processing capabilities and real-time, long-range control. The platform’s enhanced centimetre-level precision along with its efficient operational characteristics make it the most […]

With over 1000 combat flight hours logged, purchase orders and deployments of Northwest UAV’s ingeniously designed NW-44 multi-fuel single-cylinder UAV engine have accelerated as of January 2018. The NW-44 engine fills an urgent need for an efficient UAV engine that performs reliably in extreme conditions and is combat proven. The NW-44’s design substantially reduces the […]

A-techsyn — manufacturer of VTOLs, fixed-wing UASs, target-acquisition drones, and communications and autopilot systems — will introduce the first VTOL equipped with one of 3W-International-performance-partner Sky Power’s engines at Xponential 2018 as part of the 3W-Interntational exhibition stand. A SP-110 FI TS based on 3W-International GmbH’s 110 ccm model is involved here. The engine can […]

Singaporean company HES Energy Systems Pte. Ltd (“HES”), a subsidiary of H3 Dynamics Group, is pleased to announce its appointment of UAV Propulsion Tech as its authorized representative for the United States of America. Based in Tampa, Florida, UAV Propulsion represents several global brands in the US market. This partnership will ensure a strong commercial […]

Ardenna will leverage the success of capabilities developed for BNSF Railway’s supplemental track inspections to address critical infrastructure inspections in other industry sectors. Hampton, VA, April 24, 2018. On the heels of its groundbreaking success with BNSF Railway in the achievement of truly automated long-range UAS supplemental track inspections, Bihrle Applied Research (Bihrle) announced today […]

Unmanned or automated electric vehicles and systems are now available with UL electrical system safety certification, as UL issues the first UL 3030 certification for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to the Intel® Falcon 8+ drone, a professional, unmanned aerial vehicle ideal for inspection and close mapping. UL recently developed these safety standards that focus on the electrical system safety of […]

Neva Aerospace has announced the availability of new models in its Athena range of the world’s first electric turbofans (ETFs) optimised for static thrust and VTOL/STOL. Unique turbofan housings further ingeniously boost thrust with no extra weight added. April 2018 saw another technology leap when Neva announced that it has boosted the maximum thrust of […]

The European Emergency Number Association (EENA), the Brussels-based public safety NGO, and DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, today celebrated how drones have saved lives in complicated rescue missions and announced they are extending their research partnership to further integrate drones into rescue operations. At EENA’s annual 112 Awards ceremony […]

Drone Con 2018 is happening in less than a month! This year’s event has a few new added benefits to aid you on your journey into the world of drones, a new world of possibilities. Covering numerous topics relating to the commercial drone industry in South Africa, the potential to learn is exponential at an event […]

It’s easy to use, it’s lightweight, it’s everything you’ve been asking for… the new DJI Mavic Pro Parachute Launcher is here and it’s ready to save your drone, people, and property below in case of a crash. With the popularity of DJI’s Mavic Pro growing over the past few years so has the demand for […]

Two of the world’s leading safety-standards developers are joining forces to help the growing number of public safety professionals who want to use drones – also known as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) – to help protect and save lives. Today, the National Fire Protection Association and ASTM International signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support […]

Drone Detection Technology Company Provides Department of Defense with Data on Airspace Risks Dedrone, the market and technology leader in airspace security, announced today a partnership with Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), a United States Department of Defense (DoD) organization focused on accelerating commercial technologies to the U.S. military. DIUx and DoD are experimenting with […]

Climate FieldView™ customers can now enjoy seamless integration of Sentera FieldAgent on-field sensor and analytics products with FieldView, as well as automatic synchronization of field boundary and other user information between platforms. The partnership between Sentera and The Climate Corporation will help growers and trusted advisors incorporate Sentera’s accurate real-time on-field data into their decision process. […]