CommercialEASA Safety Report Shows Another Year of No Fatal Accidents for European Airlines in 2021 The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) published its 2022 safety review report this week that provides analysis accident rates, causes, and trends across every segment and category of airborne operations. While…
AI & AutonomyDrone Developers Fly their Latest Models at the Annual UAS Public Safety Summit Drone manufacturers have started to design aircraft for very specific applications, believes Ken Stewart, CEO of NUAIR (Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance, Inc.). Government agencies and departments are not usually looking…
UnmannedNew Drone Technologies Emerge for Low-Altitude Public Safety Applications Several companies developing next generation technologies for drones exhibited their solutions at the fourth annual UAS Public Safety Summit last week. The summit was focused on applications related to public safety that…
AI & AutonomyHow Transportation Departments Are Using Advanced Drone Technology for Infrastructure Inspections Departments of Transportation are increasingly using autonomous drones for monitoring and performing inspections of critical infrastructure such as bridges and highways. An autonomous drone can eliminate the need for a manual inspection…
UnmannedDronamics CEO Talks Scaling Manufacturing and Launch of Cargo Drones The company Dronamics, headquartered in the UK, is the developer and operator of a large cargo drone called the Black Swan. At the Farnborough International Airshow last week, Dronamics announced a new…
ATM ModernizationNASA Researchers Field-Test New Technology to Aid Drone Pilots in Fighting Fires NASA’s STEReO (Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations) project, led by the Ames Research Center, has developed a prototype of a drone pilot’s kit intended to help scale up the use…
RegulationNew Research Recommends Streamlining Regulations to Enable Drone Operations in the U.S. New research from George Mason University’s Mercatus Center indicates the need for states to create and manage drone routes in order to enable growth of the commercial drone industry in the U.S.…
ATM ModernizationSESAR JU Leads Project for Medical Drone Delivery in Belgium The Belgian Civil Aviation Authority recently authorized a first-of-its-kind beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone flight in Antwerp. This was the first BVLOS drone flight over a populated area operating within…
AI & AutonomyIris Automation and Sagetech Avionics Combine Technology to Enable Collision Avoidance for Drones A pioneer of collision avoidance technology, Iris Automation has just announced a partnership with Sagetech Avionics that will offer uncrewed aircraft a comprehensive air risk mitigation solution. Sagetech specializes in developing avionics…
AI & AutonomyAT&T Transmits 5G Network Via Drone Earlier this month, AT&T announced that their drone operations team has achieved an industry first in transmitting its 5G network via a drone. The test was performed in April in rural Missouri…