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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. […]

ARA Robotics, a Canadian UAV technology leader, is proud to unveil SKYMATEtm SKYMATEtm is a revolutionary commercial flight controller built for multirotor UAV configurations, dedicated to industrial applications such as 2D/3D aerial inspection and mapping. With many years of flight validation in harsh Canadian weather, ARA Robotics has proven its product’s reliability across multiple recognized companies, including […]

In a groundbreaking demonstration on 17 April 2018, Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER® S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS) and Airbus Helicopters’ manned H145 successfully completed a series of Manned Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) flights. Level 5 interoperability was achieved by providing the user onboard the manned aircraft with full command and control over the UAS and its payload, including […]

Latest upgrades of the SPH Engineering’s drone swarm management software UgCS DDC enables almost any drone and entertainment industry professionals to set up a drone swarm show in weeks. The UgCS DDC provides tools to incorporate drones equipped lights and other show elements into stunning outdoor shows synced to music or live performances. UgCS Drone Dance Controller […]

Kespry, the leading drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider, today announced it has been selected as a recipient of the John Deere Supplier Innovation Award for 2017 for the Construction and Forestry division. The Innovation awards are part of Deere & Company’s Achieving Excellence Program. The California-based company received the honor for demonstrating innovation in a product […]

GNSS receiver manufacturer Septentrio today announced the launch of the next generation AsteRx-i at IEEE/ION Position Location and Navigation Symposium in Monterey, US. The AsteRx-i combines Septentrio’s latest compact, multi-frequency multi-constellation GNSS engine with an external industrial grade MEMS based IMU. It can deliver accurate and reliable GNSS/IMU integrated positioning to the cm-level as well […]

DroneDeploy, a drone software startup, and leading drone data platform today launched the Drone software ”DroneDeploy Cloud Service” in Japan and SoftBank C&S will be the distributor. As the only drone cloud software to be distributed by SoftBank C&S, the partnership brings DroneDeploy’s best-in-class software solutions to the Japanese commercial technology market. With DroneDeploy as an industry […]

Posting on LinkedIn, Jonathan Evans has announced that he is stepping down as vice president of Skyward. My focus and my passion has always been the future. Leading Skyward to the next great milestone—and the next and the next—is what gets me up in the morning. And so it’s my great honor to share that […]

Every year people ask what separates the Small Unmanned Systems Exposition from all the rest, what we showcase here is the future. No platitudes or hype just information focused on building businesses and creating jobs. The companion journal is a compendium of articles from Speakers, sponsors and other contributors who have a message of value […]

DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, Monday released the results of an independent report scrutinizing DJI’s data practices that concludes DJI drone users have control over how their data is collected, stored and transmitted. The report analyzed drones and software independently obtained in the United States late last year, and […]

NATS, the UK’s leading air traffic control provider, and Sky-Futures, a world leader in commercial drone-based inspection services and training are holding the official launch of their new partnership on 15th May, 2018. The partnership will change the landscape of drone training in the UK. NATS’ unrivalled airspace and aviation expertise together with Sky-Futures’ industry-leading […]

The CUAS industry is plagued with problems from the illegal nature of rogue drone pilots to the fact that the equipment is illegal to use for civilians to protect their assets, the industry has many problems. Illegal Operations CUAS equipment is currently illegal to use for civilians and asset owners, people who own venues for […]

Zurich, 24 April 2018: Wingtra, the Swiss professional VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) drone manufacturer, appointed Cyril Halter as the new COO. Cyril Halter will be taking over Wingtra’s operations with a focus on the industrialisation and the ramp up of production to enable forecasted triple digit growth over the next years. Cyril Halter commented […]

DroneShield Ltd (ASX: DRO or DRO.AU) (the “Company” or “DroneShield”), a publicly-traded leader in the emerging industry of drone security solutions, has announced that its products were utilised by the Australian Defence Force for the protection of the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit 2018 in Sydney. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is the premier regional […]

Concurrent with its showing at the Navy League Sea, Air and Space Exhibition in Washington DC this past week, IXI EW, LLC announced today that they have entered into a Product Development and a Licensing Agreement with T-Worx Holdings, LLC (www.tworx.com) based in Ashburn, Virginia. The Product Development and Licensing Agreement provide for the integration of the IXI […]

Aleks Kowalski – Consortiq Does future regulation spell the end for drone training? In the first article of this series, we looked at the background to where we are today and that commercial and economic drivers, from both industry and government, demand drones to be operated beyond existing legislative capabilities. In the next 2 articles, […]

System to provide real-time beyond visual line-of-sight for unmanned aircraft and drone operations Panama City, FL April 17, 2018: DeTect, Inc. (www.detect-inc.com) announced today that it has completed commissioning of a HARRIER GGround-BasedSense-and-Avoid (GBSAA) radar at the Rozas Aerodrome in Lugo, Spain. The system, supplied to Babcock Mission Critical Services España, will provide beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) […]