Business
French drone specialist Parrot said Friday that it would cut around 100 jobs after its third-quarter sales slumped by 40 percent, putting a major dent in its revival plans. Parrot helped create the market for mass-market quadcopters in the late 2000s with easy-to-fly devices that won
At the 2018 International Fighter Conference held in Berlin from November 13-15 2018, one of the topics for presentation and discussion is the European concept and approach to what is being called the Future Combat Air System. Here the target is to shape a new combat system by 2040,
Regulations
RPAS CivOps 2019, the 7th Annual European Civil RPAS Operators & Operations Forum, is taking place in Madrid, Spain on 23 & 24 January 2019. This event is coordinated with & hosted by AESA (The Spanish Aviation Safety & Security Agency). The RPAS CivOps 2019 web site has been redesigned
Accidents
A medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) MQ-9 Reaper drone of the French Air Force crashed near Niamey, Niger, on November 17, 2018. The UAV was on its way back from a mission in Mali. According to the French Army Staff, the drone crashed in a desert area near the
Business
Terra Drone Ltd, a global company with its headquarters in Japan, has acquired a majority stake in the leading European drone service provider Skeye. Skeye will become the European headquarters of Terra Drone. With this acquisition Terra Drone has become one of the largest drone service company with more than
Accidents
A drone pilot was busted Friday in Midtown after the high-flying gadget took off on him amid fierce winds and slammed into a Barclays bank building, police and sources said. Steven Funes, 27, was flying the drone from the balcony of his 21st-floor room at The Executive Plaza
Commercial
ŠKODA is currently testing advanced drone technology that can identify and count empty containers outside the factory from the air. ŠKODA has collaborated with Czech specialists Robodrone to implement the first testing phase. The drone is equipped with LIDAR (light detection and ranging) technology to accurately identify and count unoccupied
The Beijing-based Beihang Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Technology is now seeking the first international order for its export-specific BZK-005E multirole medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (MALE UAV), following the successful grant of an export licence for the air vehicle earlier in September. The BZK-005E
Regulations
The number of requests for drone flights in Russia will skyrocket almost 16-fold against the level of 2015, chief executive of the State ATM Corporation of Russia Igor Moiseenko said last Friday at a meeting on digital development of the transport segment, chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The
Electronic Sub-Systems
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) has delivered four high-resolution shortwave infrared (SWIR) cameras to the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR). These will be part of a unique payload for the RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aerial system (UAS). Under a contract with the U.S. Office of Naval
Events
There is a power struggle shaping up in Quebec’s Lac Saint-Jean region. It is between student teams who will be vying to fix damaged solar panels using their custom designed UAS as part of the Unmanned Systems Canada Student UAS Competition. Teams from 16 Canadian universities and colleges
Commercial
The Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) No 36 Squadron has introduced a DJI Phantom 4 drone to support the Home Station Check on the service’s C-17A Globemaster military transport aircraft. Home Station Check is a routine servicing conducted on each Globemaster transport aircraft after every six months.