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Measure UAS and Drone Aviation Partner on WATT-200 Tethered Drone
Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, and Measure UAS Inc., a drone operator firm, have announced a partnership for sales, operations, training...
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Lufthansa Aerial Services and DJI Team Up to Develop Commercial Drone...
Lufthansa Aerial Services, a division of the Lufthansa aviation group, has announced that it has signed a deal with DJI to use the drone-maker’s aerial platforms to develop commercial applications for...
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Northwestern Michigan College Completes Training at UAV Factory
In anticipation of their Penguin C UAS delivery, NMC has taken part in a comprehensive 15 day training program at UAV Factory’s Manufacturing Facility in Europe. Having successfully completed the...
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European Aviation Safety Agency Issues Recommendations for UAS Airspace...
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has announced that it has issued a technical opinion on the future of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the skies over the European Union (EU), dividing them...
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Flyability Drone Explores Swiss Alps Glacier
Flyability, a developer of collision-resistant drones and the winner of the 2015 UAE Drones for Good Award, has announced that it partnered with the mountain rescue team of the Zermatt Glacier in the...
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Auburn University Researchers Use UAS to Monitor Crop Health
Auburn University has announced that its precision agriculture researchers are using unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to monitor crop health over large acreages, utilizing the aircraft to develop a...
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Bluesky Partners with Cyberhawk for Unmanned Survey & Mapping Services
Bluesky, an aerial mapping company, has announced that it is partnering with airborne inspection and surveying firm Cyberhawk to provide a broader range of aerial survey and mapping services through...
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Aerialtronics Adds Collision Avoidance Technology to Zenith UAS
Aerialtronics’ Zenith UAS now features Sense and Avoid technology Aerialtronics, a designer and manufacturer of UAV solutions, has developed a sense and avoid system for the Altura Zenith unmanned...
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AeroVironment to Provide US Coast Guard Ice Breaker with Puma UAS
AeroVironment, Inc., a manufacturer of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), has announced that it and a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been contracted to...
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EagleView Develops Outdoor Drone Research Lab at Rochester Institute of...
EagleView Technology Corporation, a provider of aerial imagery technology, data analytics and GIS solutions, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Pictometry International Corp., has designed...
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Fruity Chutes Launches Parachute Descent Rate Calculator
Fruity Chutes, leading manufacturer of high quality UAV parachute recovery systems, has released a tool that plots the descent rate of two parachutes based on a specified weight. The new Parachute...
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NASA sends Global Hawk UAS to study El Nino weather patterns
NASA Global Hawk UAS. Image courtesy: Northrop Grumman Corporation The NASA Global Hawk UAS will conduct several missions to collect detailed data over the Pacific Ocean from complex El Niño weather...
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Drone Aviation to Provide Aerostat to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Drone Aviation Holding Corp., a manufacturer of tethered drones and lighter-than-air aerostats, has announced that it has received a follow-on order from the United States Environmental Protection...
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Detect and Avoid System Demonstrated on CAMCOPTER UAS
Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER S-100 demonstrates Detect and Avoid system Schiebel, the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR), the Netherlands Coastguard and the Royal Netherlands Air Force successfully conducted a...
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Northrop Grumman Battlefield Airborne Communications Node Completes 100,000...
Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that its Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), developed for the U.S. Air Force, has achieved 100,000 combat operational flight hours providing...
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Cella Energy Solid Hydrogen Fuelled UAV Completes First Flight
Cella Energy, a developer of hydrogen storage technologies, has announced that its new hydrogen-fuelled battery replacement system has successfully powered an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), replacing...
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DroneDeploy Launches iOS Flight App for Aerial Data Capture
DroneDeploy, a developer of cloud software for commercial drones, has announced the launch of its free iOS flight app to simplify and automate the capture of aerial data for the iOS community. Users of...
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Elbit Systems Announces Skylark 3 Mini-UAS
Elbit Systems, a defense technology firm, has announced the Skylark 3, a new autonomous mini-Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), best suited for brigades and divisions in “beyond the next hill”...
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Bristow Group Invests in Sky-Futures Drone Inspection Services
Bristow Group Inc., a provider of offshore helicopter services, and Sky-Futures, a provider of drone inspection services for the oil and gas industry, have announced that Bristow has invested $4.2...
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DARPA Confirms First FLA Flight Tests are a Success
A FLA quadcopter self-navigates around boxes during initial flight data collection using only onboard sensors/software. Image courtesy of DARPA. The initial phase of data collection for DARPA’s Fast...
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