Air TaxiOPINION: Five Predictions for the Decade of the Drone Below is an opinion piece by Ben Marcus, co-founder and chairman of AirMap, a solutions provider for unmanned airspace and fleet management. The drone industry has come a long way in the…
Air TaxiTalking UTM with Amit Ganjoo, Founder of ANRA Technologies TYSON’S CORNER, Va. — As regulators, air navigation service providers and private companies continue work toward integrating unmanned traffic into the global airspace, Avionics International visited the offices of ANRA Technologies, a…
IIOTFlirtey Wants to Enable Ten Minute Commercial Drone Deliveries WASHINGTON, D.C. — Drone delivery startup Flirtey is enabling rapid point-to-point drone delivery using a new commercial drone, a portable drone launch point and autonomous software that is FAA-approved to allow one…
UnmannedFlytrex Brings Drone Delivery to North Carolina, Eyes Expansion in Reykjavik Israeli drone delivery startup Flytrex received FAA approval to begin drone food delivery in Holly Springs, North Carolina, joining a small group of companies authorized to operate commercial deliveries via unmanned aircraft.…
ATM ModernizationSwitzerland Connects Drone Operators to ATM with Nationwide System Switzerland is a step closer to rolling out an unmanned traffic management system nationwide. A partnership between Swiss ANSP Skyguide and airspace intelligence provider AirMap, has led to the deployment of a…
ATM ModernizationAltitude Angel and Wing Release Tools to Safely Plan Automated Drone Flights Two companies, UK-based Altitude Angel and Google’s Wing Aviation, recently announced unmanned traffic management solutions that aim to help drone operators safely conduct automated flights beyond visual line of site — a…
ATM ModernizationFlight Plan 2030: Embraer-X Envisions Entirely New Group to Oversee UAM Operations Embraer has released a 48-page whitepaper on urban air traffic management, examining future infrastructure for air taxis. The report, called Flight Plan 2030, was published by the company's urban air mobility…
CommercialGE's AiRXOS Takes on UTM through the Cloud To support the burgeoning urban air mobility (UAM) market, GE subsidiary AiRXOS has unveiled a platform for viewing and managing air mobility data and, running on it, a network ecosystem and a…
UnmannedShould Air Taxis Be Unmanned from the Jump? For urban air mobility to succeed — at scale — the industry will need to answer a question: What will it do about pilots? Ultimately, many entrants to the air taxi game want autonomy…
ATM ModernizationFortem and Unifly Plan to Solve Unmanned Airspace Fortem Technologies and Unifly are tag-teaming the problem of unmanned traffic management (UTM), with a plan to provide military and government agencies an airspace solution for tracking the expected influx of drones…