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Skyfire Consulting, the country’s premier public safety UAV consultancy, announced today FAA approval for the first active emergency response Certificate of Authorization with a Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) provision for public safety as part of the FAA’s IPP program. Working on behalf of the Chula Vista Police Department with the support of the City of San […]

Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com) and TTTech (www.tttech.com) announced today that they are teaming to supply next-generation mission-critical flight computers to a leading international aerospace and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufacturer. The flight computers require a Design Assurance Level of A (DAL-A), the highest level of flight-safety certification for platform missions within civilian airspace. […]

Event 38 recently completed flight demonstrations of a custom-built aircraft that is a major milestone in a multi-year research project into structural energy storage led by Dr. Vikas Prakash at Case Western Reserve University. Event 38 founder, Jeff Taylor, had previously studied aerospace engineering under Dr. Prakash in 2008 and said, “I’m proud that Event […]

Microdrones Will Host a New Wednesday Webinar April 3rd, 2019 Rome, NY- Join Microdrones for their next Wednesday Webinar and learn how Crafton Tull successfully implemented UAV based Lidar, condensing their time on site in half and saving over 50% in the process. Crafton Tull is a civil engineering, surveying, architecture, landscape architecture, and planning […]

From the dawn of humanity we’ve needed to know where we are and how to get to where we want to go. Since the Phoenicians 3,000 years ago, mariners steered by the sun and the stars. Heavenly bodies have been the basis for navigation ever since. From its invention in the 1700s, the sextant, an […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) held a ground breaking ceremony today for a new hangar being built in El Mirage, Calif. The new facility in the high desert of southern California will be close to 150,000 square feet and be used to house and test GA-ASI’s latest Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) variant, the MQ-9B […]

All of us that had met Squishy in real life or online were shocked to hear that he recently suffered a stroke. Sean has appeared on our weekly Hangout several times and always brings a strong viewpoint! I look forward to having him back on again. A gofundme campaign to help with his medical care […]

Not much seems genuinely new in the current drone age. Most things we have seen before. But the Pterodynamics team with whom we spoke with last night on Drone Stuff This Week seem to be onto something. The wings of their eVTOL fold, and the method seems to make for really smooth transitions into an […]

UTM implementation advances New York State UAS test site capabilities Syracuse – The Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance (NUAIR), and Griffiss International Airport in Rome, New York, have successfully implemented the UAS traffic management (UTM) platform from ANRA Technologies into the New York State UAS test site. This advances the test site’s capabilities by […]

As Content & Social Media Manager, you will be mainly responsible for handling the company’s social media initiatives, defining, overseeing and implementing the production of all content. As main representative of the marketing team in the US, you will also be in charge of coordinating our off line marketing actions, liaising with press and media, […]

Listening to the cabal spokes-hyena talk about drones and aviation, it is no wonder to me why we are where we are. You have a Chinese toy company Pied-Piper calling the rats to line up behind the monopoly. The RC Hobbyist seen in the picture got his/her comeuppance as part of the Federal Aviation Administration […]

Aerial Firefighting Europe 2019 is the latest event in the expanding conference and exhibition portfolio run by Tangent Link. It follows the recent highly successful SAR conference in Australia and takes place on 19-20 March 2019 at Nîmes in France. Tangent Link prides itself in having a strategic partnership to underpin each of its conferences, […]

Introducing the Centre of Drone Excellence at Unmanned Systems Asia 2019 Singapore, March 19, 2019: Drone Solution Services Pte Ltd officially announced today the commencement of its Centre of Drone Excellence activities which will be highlighted at its presentation booth at the Unmanned Systems Asia 2019 expositions which will be held April 9-11, 2019 at […]

Well blow me down, not 24 hours after I release a video underlining the Electronic Conspicuity devices that I will permit at Vertiport Africa, the Civil Aviation Authority in the UK also seeks answers. Electronic conspicuity is in some ways another way of saying remote ID. Not exactly the same but surely we won’t end […]

Scouts can sample 100x more points and achieve better field coverage than manual methods. Sentera FieldAgent now delivers instant plant population and weed pressure reports in the FieldAgent™ mobile app, while the drone is still in flight. Agriculture professionals can obtain up to 100 times more in-field measurements versus manual scouting methods and get better […]

Let’s put this one in and revisit it next year (ed) Regulators are formulating rules that stand to affect every part of the American drone industry—and the time is now for stakeholders to make their voices heard, advise veteran aviation attorneys with the national law firm LeClairRyan. “This year is shaping up as a critical one […]

With today’s release of AvA 2.4, you have your choice: PPK or RTK+PPK. Plus we’ve added NTRIP-compatibility for RTK operations, allowing you to use your NTRIP-capable third party base station! Why PPK? We still believe that RTK is the superior solution for everyday survey-grade accuracy, but there are a few legitimate scenarios where PPK is currently […]

The Aeromapper Talon Amphibious is the only truly affordable fixed-wing UAV system that can be used for inspection and mapping with proven amphibious characteristics. The UAV system delivers high-resolution georeferenced imagery as well as the video feed from up to 30 km from the operator. After completing its mission the UAV later returns and safely […]

Agreement includes order for up to 10 aircraft, creation of aircraft test range and joint venture aircraft logistics company in a deal valued at up to $43 million. March, 2019 – Anchorage, AK– Sabrewing Aircraft Company, Inc. and the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island (ACSPI), the Unangan (Aleut) Tribe of Native Alaskans, located on St. […]

HFrom Monday 18 to Wednesday 20 March, UK-based drone infrastructure firm Skyports will be involved in giving consumers living in Vantaa, Finland, the chance to have their parcels delivered by drone in ground-breaking trials. These e-commerce deliveries will be one of the first to take place in an urban environment and in the immediate vicinity […]

To meet the growing demand for dedicated solutions in a wide range of drone enabled inspection tasks, Vertical Technologies have expanded their autonomous DeltaQuad Pro VTOL range with the DeltaQuad Pro #INSPECT. The DeltaQuad Pro #INSPECT exceeds all the specifications required for actionable inspection flights and is available with a downward facing camera sensor that […]

DroneShield has today released an ASX announcement with regards to a Memorandum of Understanding between DroneShield and Public Telecommunication Co (STC Specialized). Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Sydney, Australia; and Virginia, USA – The Public Telecommunication Co also known as STC Specialized(“STC Specialized”) and DroneShield Ltd (ASX:DRO or DRO.AU) (“DroneShield”), are pleased to release the following […]

Ofil ltd, a company that develops Ultraviolet (UV) detection systems for the power grid maintenance engineers, released micROM HD , an entirely new exclusive product designed for sUAS. micROM HD is a dual sensors UV Visible HD camera that reveals electrical faults in real time, records and transmits video of the inspected elements and with […]

Singapore, Airbus has begun shore-to-ship trials in Singapore with its Skyways parcel delivery drone. This marks the first time drone technology has been deployed in real port conditions, to deliver a variety of small, time-critical maritime essentials to working vessels at anchorage. The maiden shore-to-ship delivery flight was made to the Swire Pacific Offshore’s Anchor […]

UAVOS INC. offers its customers a simulator for testing UAVOS autopilot control capabilities of different types of unmanned vehicles ranging from 1kg to 1200kg in different weather conditions. The simulator includes special software, as well as software for the ground control station, developed by UAVOS. The simulator allows to make UAV trial flight in a […]

Addressing global challenges to achieve economic, environmental, and social sustainability requires a combination of approaches including technology driven ones. Technological advancements are progressing at a lightning speed while our ability to harness the power and potential of such technologies lag behind due to short supply of trained workforce around the globe. In many parts of […]

Embrace drone technology as an integral part of work with the DJI Flight Simulator — a professional pilot training software using DJI’s leading flight control technology to recreate the natural flying experience. We are excited to announce the release of DJI Flight Simulator V 1.4.0.0 What’s New?Free Trial Version Added one additional aircraft: Mavic 2 Pro. […]

Where: San Francisco, California – Marines Memorial Club and Treasure Island. When: April 24th and 25th, 2019 April 24th in the MMC Ballroom You will hear content par excellence from a lineup of professionals who are making drones work and not conjecture on what might be possible sometime in the distant future. Insurance and trends, […]

Quaternium startup collaborates with Benidorm Local Police to provide First Response services with a hybrid drone of 4 hr. flight time. HYBRiX drone, the first hybrid fuel-electric multirotor, with 10 times more flight time than electric drones, takes off. This innovative project from Quaternium, leading European brand of long-endurance multirotors, attracted a lot of attention […]

By Frank Frisbie and Suzette Matthews Principals, Washington Progress Group LLC FAA is taking the first significant step forward toward integration of UAS in the NAS. By Notice published on February 13, 2019 is proposing to allow small UAS under stated conditions to fly over members of the public without a waiver. Primary concern for […]

Comprehensive Communication Services (CCS), a company created after Hurricane Katrina with the sole focus of providing mobile communication platforms for First Responders during disasters, and Fortress UAV, a leading provider of drone managed services including repair, preventative maintenance and support for clients, with a focus on public safety, have partnered to provide a fully comprehensive Mobile Emergency […]

Unmanned Systems Canada conducts a student UAS competition, open to teams from colleges and universities across Canada. The competition is conducted in two phases: Phase 1 requires completion of a Design Paper specifying how the student team will comply with the requirements of the scenario, this year involving the remote inspection of a solar farm […]

Last week we had the privilege of hosting Eyeplane, a drone startup from The Netherlands which is a part of the ESA BIC network and their Norwegian engineering partners Maritime Robotics. Eyeplane proposes an innovative fixed-wing drone service by which they will be able to monitor large areas of land from the sky and warn customers in case […]

Internest, with its autonomous takeoff & landing system for rotary aircraft and Skysense, drone charging infrastructure leader, announce a key partnership to ease drone operations. Most of today’s drone operations are manually controlled by certified pilots bearing high costs and making operations complex. Internest & Skysense joined forces in providing a fully autonomous solution to […]

India’s elite surveying organization Survey of India awards India’s first survey grade hybrid UAV Trinity+ order to India’s oldest surveying instrument company API-Roter Group partnered with Quantum-Systems GmbH Germany. This cooperation is a novelty in the Indian market as the drone market is tightly regulated and several requirements for professional use have to be met. “Survey of India” takes a […]

The sensor that doesn’t compromise meets mapping without limits. New dual solution enables farming, agricultural science, forestry and environmental protection professionals to gain valuable multispectral crop insights more efficiently than with slower, smaller-coverage multirotor drones Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland, March 13, 2019 – senseFly, the leading provider of fixed-wing drone solutions, and MicaSense, a leading producer of […]

The agreement was signed today by the CEOs of both companies at the World ATM Congress in Madrid. NLR and everis ADS will work together in areas such as CNS/ATM, UTM/U-Space, simulation, and consultancy. Madrid (Spain), March 2019. – The Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) and everis Aerospace, Defense and Security (everis ADS) signed today a […]

Skyborne Technology, Inc., a developer, manufacturer and integrator of next generation manned and automated first responder communication, unmanned airship and drone aviation systems has acquired Costin Airport in Gulf County, FL for flight operations, manufacturing and unmanned aircraft systems training. Unmanned Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of unmanned systems and drones will be moving part of its manufacturing […]

Terra Drone Corporation (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, CEO Toru Tokushige), the world’s leading provider of industrial drone solutions, concluded its maiden global summit in early March with a focus on developing the roadmap for a universal drone solutions platform. The three-day summit was attended by the top executives of Terra Drone group companies from over 20 countries inAsia, South America, Africa, and Europe. The universal drone […]

1) The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), in exercise of its powers under article 266 of the Air Navigation Order 2016 (‘the Order’) as amended, exempts the remote pilot of a Control Line model aircraft1 from the requirement at article 94A to obtain permission to fly within the flight restricted zone of a protected aerodrome2 subject […]

Leading precision agriculture company Taranis today announced the launch of its updated, insights-centered platform. The company has also expanded its fleet to over one hundred manned aircraft and autonomous drones increasing reach for global customers worldwide. By 2050, food production will have to grow by 70% to feed a growing population, and farmers and agriculture retailers are […]

Madrid, March 12 – At the World ATM Congress in Madrid Unifly today presented an e-Identification and tracking solution for drones. The device works in a completely independent fashion, with its own power source and sensors for position, altitude, temperature, pressure, speed and direction. As soon as the pilot attaches it to a drone, it is […]

XDynamics is looking for a seasoned and high energy sales manager to join a fast-growing drone manufacturing startup to build up its initial retail presence on an operational and strategic level and develop its US operation and sales network. The sales manager will be responsible for developing new business opportunities and relationships with clients, closing […]

A new set of regulations intended to tighten rules on drone operators is in danger of having a disproportionately negative effect on the model flying community, according to the British Model Flying Association (BMFA) and the All-Party Group on General Aviation (APPG-GA). The broad thrust of changes to the Air Navigation Order which are supported […]

Ahead of the World ATM Congress taking place in Madrid this week, Altitude Angel is expanding its operational base with the opening an office in Vienna, Austria. The new office opening represents the first step in Altitude Angel’s international expansion, as it strengthens its portfolio of partners and projects across the globe, including Frequentis, DJI, the FAA […]

“Sometimes it takes a while to solve the hard problems,” Blanks said. “This was a hard problem, but what it shows is that it’s possible to make progress in a way that works for the industry and for the regulator. It shows a reproducible path forward.” March 11, 2019 — When Hurricanes Florence and Michael roared […]

CAA accredited NQE, RUAS, have made their RPQ-s online course available at the special offer price of £600 (inc VAT) throughout the month of March. The CAA approved online training course was one of the first of its kind and gives you the knowledge required to achieve your Permission for Commercial Operations (PfCO) and ensure […]

Sony is taking its expertise in sensing and processing technology and applying it to the agriculture business with the introduction of its Smart Agriculture Solution. The new solution allows for daily crop management and monitoring through the capture, collection, and analyzation of data in the field. It enables in-the-field operation without a network connection, unlike conventional networked […]

Air shows have been around for over 100 years, in fact, the “Grande Semaine d’Aviation de la Champagne”, or the Rheims Aviation Meeting, was held in August 1909 and is considered to be the first international aviation meeting. Starting out with the elements of aerial acts, to competing for prizes in events such as, who […]

The Alpha GCase DUO is a ruggedized portable stand-alone control station designed to operate in harsh conditions and with enormous flexibility. This ground control station has two 15“ sun-readable screens that permits two operators to work side by side, one controlling the unmanned vehicle and the other controlling the payload. Flexibility The high flexibility of […]