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MQ-8C Fire Scout UAS Completes First Flight from Littoral Combat Ship
Image courtesy: Northrop Grumman Corporation Northrop Grumman Corporation’s MQ-8C Fire Scout autonomous helicopter took to the air for the first time from a U.S. Navy independence-class Littoral Combat...
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Industrial Skyworks Launches New Remote Drone Inspection Software
Industrial Skyworks has announced the official launch of Blue VU, the company’s new software for the accurate and efficient inspection of buildings, and oil and gas infrastructure. The new Blue VU...
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360 Designs Unveils New Live Streaming Virtual Reality Broadcast Drone
360 Designs has announced the release of Flying EYE, a broadcast quality, live streaming, virtual reality drone. Flying EYE has a range of over 5 miles, and 360 Designs claims that it is the first...
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DJI Announces New Phantom 4 Advanced Flying Camera Drone
DJI has announced a new addition to its Phantom family of drones, the Phantom 4 Advanced, which offers creators a new way to capture aerial imagery with a more powerful camera and more precise...
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Verizon Conducts Flight Tests of New Drone-Based 4G LTE Service
Verizon has announced that it has conducted the latest engineering flight tests to determine how large an area of wireless coverage can be created aerially using a “flying cell site” aboard a long...
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KDDI and Terra Drone Announce New 4G LTE Drone Control Network
Terra Drone and telecommunications operator KDDI have announced the completion of their new 4G LTE control system, which allows operators to control drones via an LTE network. The system also manages...
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Trumbull Unmanned Selects SimActive Correlator3D for Emergency Response Services
SimActive, a developer of photogrammetry software, has announced that Trumbull Unmanned is using Correlator3D as part of their emergency response services. Trumbull Unmanned integrates Unmanned...
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Leidos to Provide US Army with UAS Services and Field Support
Leidos has announced that it has been awarded a prime contract by the U.S. Army to provide Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TUAS) technical services and field support. The multiple-award...
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Navmar to Test Micro-Turboprop Engine on TigerShark UAV
Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) and UAV Turbines Inc. (UAVT) have announced plans for a joint flight demonstration of NASC’s TigerShark aircraft with a UAVT micro-turboprop propulsion...
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XDynamics Unveils New Modular Customizable Industrial Drone
XDynamics has announced the introduction of the D-02, its next-generation aerial platform for professional drone cinematography and industrial applications. The D-02 is an industrial grade unmanned...
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Northwest UAV Develops New Unmanned Aircraft Engine
Northwest UAV (NWUAV) has announced that it has initiated development of its new NW-88 Twin-Cylinder Multi-Fuel UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) propulsion system based on the proven, ground-up design of...
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Northwest UAV NW-44 Engine Logs Over 1000 Combat Flight Hours
Northwest UAV has announced that its NW-44 Multi-Fuel Engine has reached the milestone of logging over 1000 combat flight hours. Built specifically for small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) that require...
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Fuel Cell Propulsion System Successfully Tested on ScanEagle UAV
Ballard Power Systems has announced that the company’s subsidiary, Protonex, has successfully powered test flights of the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the company’s PEM (proton...
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uAvionix Unveils New Integrated ADS-B and GPS Solutions for Drones
uAvionix has announced a new line of four integrated Ping transceivers and navigation products for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that reduce weight and installation complexity. The new hardware will...
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New Production Facility for Predator B UAS Landing Gear Opened in the...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and GKN Aerospace’s Fokker business, a developer of landing gear technologies, have announced the official opening of the highly automated production line of...
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Lockheed Martin Performs Flight Demonstrations of Fury Tactical UAS
Lockheed Martin has announced that it is regularly flying long-range endurance test missions with its advanced tactical Group 3 unmanned aerial system (UAS), Fury, as the company prepares the aircraft...
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Sensofusion to Further Develop Counter-UAS Mobile Platform for U.S. Marine Corps
Sensofusion has announced that the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, in partnership with Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), has awarded the company a contract to further develop and leverage...
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New Heavy-Lift Drone to Enter Production
GRIFF Aviation has announced that a new assembly plant that will produce the company’s new heavy-lift Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) will soon be operating at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport near...
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DJI And Hasselblad Announce 100-Megapixel Integrated Aerial Photography Platform
DJI and professional camera developer Hasselblad have announced the introduction of what the two companies claim is the first 100-megapixel integrated drone imaging platform. The DJI M600 Pro drone,...
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FAA Releases First Set of UAS Facility Maps
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that it has published more than 200 facility maps to streamline the commercial drone authorization process. The maps depict areas and altitudes...
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