Regulations
The Federal Aviation Administration is launching a new public service announcement to let people know the airspace around Levi’s Stadium is a No Drone Zone during the Super Bowl. Temporary Flight Restrictions will prohibit certain aircraft operations, including unmanned aircraft operations, within a 32-mile radius of the stadium
Accidents
An American MQ-1 Predator has crashed in wasteland 15 kilometers away from the city centre of Doğankent in Turkey. The aircraft which took off at night from the Incirlik Air Base in the district of Sarıçam, crashed in a field in the Doğankent neighbourhood in the central Seyhan district.
Training
The US Army is working toward a universal control interface for unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS, that will help operators pilot more than one type. "Probably one of the biggest and most impacting changes that we're looking forward to in our strategy is that of a universal
Agriculture
DroneDeploy has announced a new feature: real-time, accurate volume measurements available on any device. This feature is available as part of the new Elevation Toolbox, which enables more granular visualization and analysis of elevation data. Whether you need to calculate the volumes of stockpiles, the extraction volume of a
Business
Skeye, a Dutch provider of professional UAV services has announced that it has signed a two- year lease agreement with High Eye for the use of two HEF 30 VTOL UAVs equipped with a daylight and infrared camera. The HEF 30 is a fuel-driven unmanned helicopter, designed by the
Testing
Soon-Jo Chung, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering & Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,is developing a robotic falcon that chases birds away from airfields. “The premise here is to figure out how to reverse engineer bio-inspired flight from the robotics standpoint,” Chung said.
Testing
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) division announced late last week it is testing a programme to operate Predator drones from a civilian airport in San Angelo, Texas. The three- to four-week deployment, which began on January 28th, is a first-ever
In a development that takes the life-saving capabilities of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to one of the most remote and unforgiving regions on earth, AeroVironment, Inc. announced it and a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been contracted to provide the U.S. Coast
Birds of prey in the Netherlands will be trained to hunt down and take out enemy unmanned flying devices, police announced. The authorities released video of a successful demonstration from Friday, saying a final decision on continuing the program will be made over the next few months. Nobody else in
Commercial
Westar Energy will soon deploy drones in the war on power outages. The state’s dominant electric company last week obtained a rule exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration to begin using two remote-controlled aerial drones. Company officials say that once a few final details are finished, the drones
Regulations
The Bahamas Ministry of Transport and Aviation has reminded the public that regulations governing the operation of drones took effect from February 1st. The conditions regulating the use of unmanned aircraft systems are outlined in special regulation number one of the Civil Aviation Department’s Safety Regulations. This regulates both
Regulations
Data from 2016-state-uas-legislation.silk.co The Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) has been tracking all active legislation pertaining to unmanned systems. This year, to provide the best information to its members, legislators, regulators and the media, AUVSI has organized data on all unmanned systems-related