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When I worked directly with the FAA as a customer, one thing I learned the hard way is that seemingly common sounding words or phrases have very specific (and sometimes loaded) meaning when spoken within the context of the FAA or aviation. I have a feeling that Performance Based Navigation (PBN) is probably one of […]

Pro S3 is pleased to announce the release of the Venture T lines of mutirotor UAVs. Venture T offers unique capabilities concentrated in a single package, designed specifically for UAV training schools. Mr. Daniele Camatti CEO of Pro S3 says “UAV training activities requires specific performance characteristics not usually available in a standard commercial drone […]

DJI, the prominent pioneer in state of the art unmanned aerial photography equipment, has its sagacious eyes set on the North American Market, aiming to rattle the entire drone business in 2017. San Francisco residents are going to embrace an extraordinary month of February: the very first DJI authorised store, Magic Sky, will go into […]

On Tuesday, February 14th, I gave a presentation on drone applications to a room full of First Responders as guests of the Consumnes River Fire Department. Most of the material presented was focused on SAR and firefighting, but we covered some other safety and law enforcement topics as well. Before we go any further, I […]

FreeBird One is a unique and high-performing commercial UAV that could make a solid addition to an existing product portfolio, or offer a company using or planning to deploy a fleet of drones a proprietary vehicle that could differentiate its drone capabilities. Structurally-enclosed SurroundFrame carbon fiber airframe (able to withstand in-air collisions) Weatherproof (rain, snow, extreme […]

Cyberhawk Innovations, leader in aerial inspection and survey using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), is offering to drone enthusiasts a rare opportunity to become part of one of the world’s fastest growing industries. Headquartered in Livingston, and with bases in Houston, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, Cyberhawk carried out the very first UAV inspection in […]

Stemme AG and S-PLANE Automation (Pty) Ltd today announced an agreement to integrate S-PLANE subsystems into the ECARYS ES15 aircraft to create an Optionally Piloted Vehicle (OPV). A comprehensive solution is offered, including the Ground Control Station, suitable for a variety of mission profiles. The OPV is a highly versatile vehicle, combining the benefits of […]

Glad that your teams are pumping out those drone delivery patents left right and centre. It will certainly be easier to stomp on any great ideas should anybody come out with anything close to what the dream factory bangs out. I was also very pleased to see that you picked up on my print your […]

Karma Vista Winery is utilising Great Lakes Drone Company to provide aerial data management and consultation for the 2017 growing season. Joe Herman, owner of Karma Vista Winery is excited about how this technology can redefine how they manage their fields this year. The data collected by regular drone overflights will provide them with real-time […]

Vigilant Aerospace has completed beyond line-of-sight flight testing of its new FlightHorizon collision avoidance system for drones at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in the Mojave desert. FlightHorizon is flight safety software that provides drone pilots with the ability to detect-and-avoid other aircraft. It is based on a NASA patent and prototype exclusively licensed by […]

A weighty and informative report from ORNL penned by Richard Lusk and William Monday. The report is crammed with information useful for any commercial UAS operator. It includes checklists as well. Always good to see other people’s thinking on that subject. The introduction is bang on as well, top notch, if you are a serious […]

The UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) industry includes a variety of aircraft and platforms necessary to accomplish a growing number of mission profiles and applications. There is a lot of interest in small (under 55 lbs.) platforms for commercial applications and for hobbyist, but there is also a growing demand for larger aircraft that carry larger […]

Crown Prince of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, honoured the winners of UAE Drones for Good Award and UAE AI/ Robotics Award for Good. Sheikh Hamdan was briefed on a number of hi-tech projects presented by the participating teams that offer applied innovative solutions in economy, humanitarian and scientific […]

Santa Fe– To protect facilities that are critical to the public’s welfare, it would be unlawful to fly an unmanned aircraft- commonly referred to as drones- within 500 feet of these installations. Drones would be banned from around facilities such as power plants, chemical storage facilities, and petroleum refineries under SB 348. The bill also […]

Intel may have used a Yuneec based platform, a company they have bought into, to drop a basketball for the Verizon Slam Dunk challenge. Yuneec seems to be the ugly step child of the Intel Drone group. We have not really heard much of the company recently. They were heralded as a DJI beater, that […]

Enough people must have saved enough money to buy big motors and batteries. Man carrying multirotors are popping up (see what I did there) everywhere. The Scorpion 3 has just been launched by Russian company Hoversurf. It looks um interesting in flight. Not sure I would want such a large prop near my legs. Sensibly the Hoversurf […]

Researchers at Utah State University last week unveiled their newest platform of unmanned aerial vehicles. The new ‘BluJay’ line of all-electric aircraft is used for research in agriculture and water resources engineering. “This aircraft represents the latest improvements in UAV technology,” said Dr. Mac McKee, director of the Utah Water Research Lab. “It can stay […]

In the modern age of solar 4.5 MW is not a big power plant, generally occupying less than 50 acres of land. But from the perspective of a field technician, size is all relative. A Needle in a Haystack “A plant that size has about 18,000 panels,” says Rick Lavezzo, the owner of ArrayCon, one […]

Land O’Lakes, Inc. is seeking proposed solutions that enable scalable, autonomous drone usage in precision agriculture (the “Solution(s)”). While drone technology is one of the hottest topics in the agriculture industry today, current solutions have not yet evolved to make drones a valuable or cost effective tool for farmers. Land O’Lakes, Inc., a farmer-owned cooperative, […]

Yesterday while scrolling through my Facebook feed I ran across this little gem of a post by Matt Gleason featuring a 3d printed micro quad, Mega Whoop, while there are sure to be others out there this is the first I’ve seen posted publicly in the 3d printed groups also now offered on thingiverse the […]

A new modular open source drone, UAV and AI brand, Gizmowl, based on the white owl theme is seeking support from makers and 3d printers. In drones and artificial intelligence technology development, a new and potentially popular brand has arrived on scene. It’s called the BSM Gizmowl and it hopes to carve out a Khan […]

DJI, the world’s leading maker of unmanned aircraft systems, and the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA), the nation’s leading voice for aircraft modellers, are launching a joint program to promote safe and responsible drone operations, train public safety officers to use drones effectively, and support educational outreach efforts. DJI and the AMA will collaborate on […]

This week MultiGP Drone Racing (www.mulitgp.com) announced the 2017 MultiGP International Open, being held at the AMA National Headquarters in Muncie, Indiana, August 9-13, 2017. This one of a kind event is an open invitation connecting the global FPV community, which is one of the fastest growing sports communities in the world. The MultiGP International […]

What is the difference between an Insurance broker and an insurance underwriter? As an Insurance Broker and a consumer representative, that is a question we’re asked by many insureds at the beginning of their search for insurance. We know that many Insurance Underwriters are asked the same thing. There is no question that the Consumer’s […]

The micro-UUV is a flexible and affordable tool ideally suited for developers of autonomy and behaviors, power systems, subsea sensors, and new payloads. With a base system price under $15,000 it opens affordable UUV operations to any organization with undersea survey or science requirements. The micro-UUV has been delivered with sonar payloads, acoustic comms, 360 […]

Building on its strategy to drive innovation and adoption for IoT services in high-growth markets, Verizon today announced that it has purchased Skyward, a private company based in Portland, Oregon. Skyward brings drone operations management to the Verizon IoT portfolio, simplifying drone operations and management for organizations of any size. Terms of the transaction have […]

UAVenture has partnered with Flyingwings to develop the Falcon Vertigo, the first in a range of ready-to-fly hybrid vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones. When ordered together with the AirRails flight control system the Vertigo will be pre-tuned and ready-to-fly providing evaluators with a fast track way of trialling hybrid VTOL technology and seeing how […]

Microsoft wants to interrogate your mistakes. Arriving on GitHub today AirSim a free drone simulator that learns with you. Feeding back meatware control moves into robot control Artificial Intelligence algorithms. Our goal is to develop AirSim as a platform for AI research to experiment with deep learning, computer vision and reinforcement learning algorithms for autonomous vehicles. For […]

Sentera today announced its ability to convert a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone into a precision scouting tool that collects TrueNDVI crop health data, just in time for the 2017 growing season in the northern hemisphere. By integrating the ultra-lightweight, super-precise Sentera NDVI Single Sensor onto the Phantom 4 Pro platform, agronomists and growers realise […]

BIRD Aerosystems unveils the Aeroshield POD: an integrated solution that supports the installation of the Airborne Missile Protection Systems (AMPS) on VIP wide body aircraft. Exposed by the company for the first time, the Aeroshield POD is fully operational and was already sold to many customers. BIRD Aerosystems specialises in the developing and deploying of […]

Sky-Futures, a global leader in innovation with drone-based technology, has been awarded a 3-year contract to inspect Eni facilities globally. Eni, one of the largest operators worldwide in the Energy Sector, operates in 66 countries. This global contract is the first of its kind between a drone-based technology business and an international oil and gas […]

Cyberhawk is the recognised world leader in the provision of industrial inspection and land surveying solutions using Remotely Operated Aerial Vehicles (ROAV) & Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Our customers include Oil & Gas, Utility and Renewables companies, both onshore and offshore, in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia.Cyberhawk provides highly differentiated services that offer […]

We at Kespry believe in a future where commercial drones are used in construction to cut costs, in agriculture to increase yields and reduce chemical use, in search and rescue to save lives, in the clean energy sector to improve the efficiency of solar and wind energy, and in a myriad of other yet-to-be-discovered sectors. […]

The emerald golfing greens have seen better days. According to the US National Golf Foundation, the number of players has almost steadily declined from over 30 million in 2005 (pre-recession), to 24.7 million today. 680 US and 158 Canadian courses have closed. “Golf course owners are working smarter to manage resources like water and labor […]

Dropping packages by parachute! Gosh, novel and original thinking from Amazon. What will they come up with next! Amazon was granted a patent yesterday by the US Patent Office. Something tells me I have seen it before. But it’s not just parachuting packages. It’s guiding the package as it falls towards it’s delivery point. A drone […]

There might be nine million bicycles in Beijing, but this week we saw one thousand drones flying over Guangzhou. Joshua Ziering from http://www.kittyhawk.io, gave a very compelling explanation of their flight logging and drone health monitoring system. The Aerovironment Quantix, what is the software it’s being bundled with? EuroUSC EuroUSC, Bruce Simpson of RC Model […]

AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems for both military and commercial applications, shared details regarding its ongoing pilot programs which are entering their third year and have guided development of the AV DSS platform. The company also displays its Quantix™ drone and AV Decision Support System™ (AV DSS) to World […]

Would you buy a name that has seen some trouble? EuroUSC, as we know, went pop leaving students high and dry, some of whom only found out when they tried to find precise details of courses they had booked. It is alleged that EuroUSC kept taking students money even after the CAA pulled their qualifications. […]

Graham Warwick of AvWeek reports that the Somerset designed Aquila is being prepared to fly again. Once you realised there was no triumphant landing, hand shaking hugging and whooping in the first flight video, it was obvious something had gone wrong. We reached out and caught the word from Yuma the next day. The NTSB […]

President Trumps two for one deal on regulations, cutting two for every one created has the potential to slow down UAS integration in America. The drone industry is one that needs more! Every time regulations have been introduced, first in the form of the 333 exemption and now Part 107 the commercial drone industry has […]

SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to offer new Correlator3D™ license options for medium format cameras and satellite sensors. Users who only require to process such data can now benefit from industry-leading software, at a lower price. The new medium format license supports image formats up to 100 megapixels. For the […]

Dedrone, a security company which developed the world’s first software to detect drones and protect high-value airspace from drone threats, announced today it has secured $15 million for its Series B funding round led by Felicis Ventures and by John Chambers, Executive Chairman of Cisco, who has personally invested in the company. The funding comes […]

Tern, a joint program between DARPA and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR), seeks to greatly increase the effectiveness of forward-deployed small-deck ships such as destroyers and frigates by enabling them to serve as mobile launch and recovery sites for specially designed unmanned air systems (UASs). DARPA last year awarded Phase 3 of […]

Rotron Power Ltd, a leading manufacturer of advanced rotary-powered propulsion systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, is offering its customers an opportunity to examine in-depth the development of its Heavy Fuel Engine (HFE) technology. The exclusive behind-the-scenes tour, at its manufacturing facility in the UK, will allow Rotron to showcase its engine production capabilities […]

Russia Today has posted video of a 1000 drone swarm. I’m still busy trying to count them. GhostDrone 2’s by eHang were the platform used. The quadcopters destroyed the previous swarm record of 500 drones flown by Intel last year. It also diminishes somewhat Lady Gaga’s 300 from the Super Bowl. The formation was not as dynamic […]

Delta Insurance New Zealand Limited, launched New Zealand’s most comprehensive UAV (drone) operator’s insurance solution. This launch took place in conjunction with Delta’s sponsorship of the NZ UAV Conference held at the Auckland University of Technology today. Commercial UAV technology, valued at over $127bn globally, is seeing wholesale adoption across many New Zealand sectors including […]

Aveillant, the advanced radar technology company based in Cambridge, today announced the sale of one of its innovative Gamekeeper counter-UAS radars to ST Electronics (Satcom & Sensor Systems) Pte Ltd (“STEE-SatComS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited in Singapore. Following the operational approval for Aveillant’s Gamekeeper unit in Monaco, this sale represents the […]

Established in 2008, Aviassist is a CASA certified company specialising in drone training and dedicated to providing aviation expertise to Australian Business. Aviassist is passionate about promoting safe aviation activities and increasing business efficiencies through the use of the latest technology. Due to continued growth Aviassist Pty Ltd is looking for a professional RPAS Instructor. In […]

Good news bad news, the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) has announced that to the end of January 2017 there are 368 licenced RPL pilots in South Africa. That number up from 33 in 2016. “The substantial increase in the number of registered RPAS [remotely piloted aircraft systems] and associated licences in the country […]

Airware believes an accurate view of the world empowers our customers to make it a better place. We offer complete commercial drone solutions, enabling enterprises to take full advantage of aerial data for endless business applications. Airware’s comprehensive solutions combine hardware, software, and cloud services to enable companies to efficiently manage and safely and reliably […]