Patents
From a recent patent filed by Disney Enterprises, Inc., it seems Disney may be looking to take their stage shows to new heights with the help of drones. In a recent patent filing entitled “Aerial Show System Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Energy To Animate Creative Show Element,” the company details
UAM/UTM
Airbus has collaborated with Boeing to write a report warning that air traffic management (ATM) technology must be significantly modernised to manage countless new small aircraft that will occupy future airspace. The paper, to be released in the coming weeks, will describe how rapidly increasing numbers of drones, and possible
Commercial
A consortia led by DronePrep has successfully been awarded €200,000 via the Government’s Emergency CV19 Future Flight Fund to fast-track plans to establish a UAV/Drone Emergency Medical Airbridge and consult with landowners about using low-level airspace in Cornwall for emergency drone use. The Cornish project will run
C-UAS
Avtomatika Group (part of the state tech corporation Rostec) offers the world’s most powerful hand-held system to fight unmanned aerial vehicles, Avtomatika CEO Vladimir Kabanov told TASS. Pishchal-PRO anti-drone system The Pishchal-PRO is distinguished by its optimal weight/efficiency ratio. "The Pishchal is unique: with a weight of
Regulations
The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority has opened up a forum for comments on proposed fees for drone services. From January 28, 2021, commercial drone pilots and people who operate drones for work will be required to register them with CASA and obtain accreditation; this includes the currently-excluded sub-2 kg
Commercial
Workhorse is making a line of drones designed for parcel delivery, and at least some of those machines are facing difficulties, according to a customer letter reviewed by Barron’s. A logistics firm that bought and tested an early version of Workhorse’s drone, called HorseFly, says the product suffers
Testing
Schiebel, together with partner Nordic Unmanned, successfully demonstrated to Norwegian energy company Equinor the cargo delivery capability of its Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) CAMCOPTER S-100 to offshore platform Troll A. This is a world’s first in terms of full-scale offshore UAV delivery from shore to an active oil and
Testing
Reliable Robotics announced that it has achieved historic firsts for global commercial aviation by completing successful test flights of remote-piloted passenger airplanes in United States airspace. In the first flight, the pilot pressed a button on a remote user interface and the unmanned four passenger Cessna 172 Skyhawk (C172) automatically
UAM/UTM
Avinor Air Navigation Services (ANS) is working with Frequentis and Altitude Angel to implement an unmanned traffic management (UTM) system at 18 airport towers across Norway. The system, which is being tested in a real-world environment at the first two airport towers, before being rolled out nationwide, will support the
Software
Octopus ISR Systems announced the release of a new and unique optional software upgrade for all Epsilon ISR payloads to support advanced image-aiding features: an Artillery Fire Adjustment plugin. The newly released feature enables coordination of artillery battery fire by providing gun target corrections. The operator marks the impact point
C-UAS
SRC Tec, North Syracuse, New York, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $90,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for force protection Counter-small Unmanned Aerial System (C-sUAS) with Medusa sustainment. The contract provides for the acquisition, upgrade, sustainment, installation support and design and analysis support of C-sUAS and subsystems manufactured by SRC
Business
As part of the second annual “Blue Magic Belgium” industry engagement event hosted by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), 18 Belgium-based companies have been selected to present their ideas and cutting-edge capabilities to a panel of GA-ASI technical experts. The panel will evaluate the companies in a virtual