Air TaxiEmbention Looks to Use Drone Experience for eVTOL Autopilot Development Embention, a company with a background in manufacturing components and critical systems for drones, is now also developing technology for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL). During a webinar hosted by the…
UnmannedVesper Military Drone Now Available to Commercial Operators The military-grade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used by the Department of Defense (DoD) and other U.S. federal agencies, Vesper, and its Vision Ground Control Station (GCS) will become available to commercial customers…
UnmannedB4UFLY Adds Drone Data Crowdsourcing and Local Advisories in New Update The B4UFLY, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) partnered drone app, will now offer localized advisories and crowdsourcing operational data for drone pilots, Kittyhawk CEO Jon Hegranes and B4UFLY app maker, announced on…
Unmanned‘Detecting’ the Path to BVLOS Operations for Commercial Drones in US Airspace The full commercial potential of drones in civilian airspace in the United States is, for the moment, locked, as drones are unable to fly beyond their operator’s visual line of sight (BVLOS),…
ConnectivityENGINEER PROFILE: How Ben Wring Makes UAVs Communicate for Persistent Systems Persistent Systems engineer Ben Wring has been enchanted by the “romance of aviation” since his childhood trips to United Airlines’ San Francisco International Airport maintenance facility, where his uncle and grandfather…
RegulationNew Drone Guidelines Set the Stage for Remote ID The FAA updated the Federal Register with new guidelines for recreational drone use today, bringing the standards more in line with commercial flight and priming the UAS climate for coming remote ID…
UnmannedNotre-Dame Cathedral Fire Fought with Drones Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was the site of a raging fire Monday, April 15, suffering a still-unknown amount of damage as the building is assessed. The damage could have been worse, though,…
ConnectivityUAVOS Releases Auto-Tracking Antenna for UAVs Drone-maker UAVOS has introduced an auto-tracking antenna system for enabling long-range data transmission on a wide range of unmanned aircraft. The new antenna system has two communication channels featuring different antennas: a 900…
UnmannedHydrogen Cells Best Batteries in Hour-Long Drone Test Flight An under-development drone powered by a hydrogen fuel cell beat its hour-long flying time target in recent testing, staying aloft for over 70 minutes with a 5 kg payload. Dubbed Project Rachel,…
UnmannedStratospheric Data-Collection UAS Completes First Flight at 20,000 Feet The high-altitude HiDRON unmanned glider by UAVOS and Stratodynamics Aviation completed its first test flight earlier this month, UAVOS revealed Thursday. The HiDRON's first flight lasted 90 minutes within an undisclosed location, and approached…