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Boeing was awarded the engineering and manufacturing development contract to provide four aircraft. Boeing plans to perform the MQ-25 work in St. Louis. MQ-25 is designed to provide the U.S. Navy with a much-needed refuelling capability. According to the U.S. Navy, the MQ-25 Stingray
Events
Ahead of the ISR & C2 Battle Management US Conference on November 6-8 2018 in Washington D.C., the organisers surveyed government and industry experts to share their perspective on the FY18 U.S. defense budget and critical C2ISR capability gaps. The FY19 NDAA authorizes a $17 billion national
Propulsion
Impossible Aerospace has announced a $9.4 million Series A funding and unveiled the US 1, an electric commercial-grade drone with a flight time of up to two hours. The battery life of the US-1 outperforms the approximate 25-minute single-charge flight time of other drones available
Research, led by Oregon State University scientists have revealed newly documented behaviours resulting from the use of small “unmanned aerial systems,” or drones, that allow researchers to observe the whales from above with minimal disturbance. Marine Mammal InstituteHatfield Marine Science Institute The researchers compiled and tabulated all the different behaviours
Control Stations
A person with a brain chip can now pilot a swarm of drones — or even advanced fighter jets, thanks to research funded by the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. The work builds on research from 2015, which allowed a paralyzed woman to steer a
Business
Rolls-Royce engines have been selected by Boeing to power the US Navy’s new MQ-25 Stingray aircraft, which will provide unmanned, carrier-based air-to-air refuelling. The US Navy has awarded the MQ-25A engineering and manufacturing contract to Boeing to provide four aircraft. The MQ-25
Accidents
The aerial inspection of a cracked window at San Francisco’s tilting Millennium Tower came to a crashing halt when the drone dropped from the sky, nearly missing pedestrians below. Building managers were conducting the aerial survey of the structure while KPIX 5 cameras were rolling. The Millennium Tower’s
Commercial
UAV Navigation has just released a case study demonstrating its ability to is able to deliver a cutting-edge Flight Control Solution (FCS) in the shortest period of time. Elytron Aeronautica, one of the company's most recent customers, purchased a full FCS and has experienced the quality of
Unmanned Systems Canada has just announced details of its11th Unmanned Systems Canada Student UAS Competition in 2018-2019. Attention All UAS Teams: Severe thunder storms generated from this summer’s severe heat have damaged a solar farm near Alma, Québec. The utility company responsible for power in the Lac
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Oxford Direct Services (ODS), the service delivery and commercial arm of Oxford City Council in the UK ,has announced that it is to start providing drone-based services to include roof and building surveying, land mapping, aerial photography and filming. As far as is known, this is the first time
Accidents
An RQ-4 Global Hawk crashed into the waters off Spain on June 26th, 2018. The incident has not been previously disclosed to the public prior to inquiries by The Drive. It marks the second loss of an RQ-4 in just over a year, with the other aircraft crashing
Business
PrecisionHawk Inc., a provider of drone technology for the enterprise, has announced a partnership with EagleView, a provider of aerial imagery and data analytics for government, insurance and commercial sectors. Through this partnership with PrecisionHawk, EagleView will collect at-scale insurance claims imagery via drones by leveraging PrecisionHawk’s global