The US Secret Service arrested a man who was flying a small drone less than a block from the White House on last Thursday afternoon, law enforcement officials said. It was the second time in five months that the Secret Service had found a drone flying near the White House,
Regulations
New rules regulating the use of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS), popularly known as drones have been signed by the Minister of Transport, Ms Dipuo Peters and will be officially be put into effect 01 July 2015 Director of Civil Aviation Poppy Khoza said the South African Civil Aviation Authority,
Business
China is offering to sell Jordan missile-firing drones to fight the Islamic State terror army, according to a U.S. congressman. “I am now aware that China is presently in Jordan to discuss operations, logistics and maintenance associated with the urgent sale of weaponized unmanned systems,” Rep. Duncan Hunter,
Events
Dozens of educational sessions and case studies will be offered at this November's Drone World Expo and will be led by thought leaders, industry experts and end-users who will present real-world solutions. The education program, which is being offered at no charge to qualified end-users,
Accidents
Ronald Fisk had never seen a drone aside from pictures of the aircraft on the Internet. That changed when one crashed near his backyard on Tuesday. As Fisk was fixing a water heater in his mother-in-law's front yard connected to his house near downtown Colorado Springs,
Commercial
Following a series of tests beginning at the end of last year, Aveillant’s unique holographic radar has proved able to detect and track drones, as small as the commercially available Phantom II, at ranges in excess of 4 nautical miles. In addition to internal trials, Aveillant was approached by
RaptorMaps—a startup that's developed drones to provide analytics on crops and make agriculture more sustainable—has won the 2015 MIT $100K business competition. Taking home the $100,000 grand prize, the company said in an email, "will get us to the field sooner, where our service
Regulations
The Tokyo metropolitan government has prohibited people from operating drones in all metropolitan parks, officials said. A total of 81 parks and gardens managed by the metropolitan government are subject to the ban, which also prohibits people from bringing drones into the parks. The ban has been introduced in the
Video
This is a film about French based P-51 Mustang Moonbeam McSwine which took part in the Flying Legends Air Show 2015 at Duxford in the UK. It is taken from the official DVD and Blu-ray of the airshow, which is available at www.FlyingMachinesTV.co.uk Source: YouTube
Regulations
U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced a public outreach campaign for the National Capital Region around Washington, D.C. to reinforce the message that the District of Columbia and cities and towns within a 15-mile radius of Ronald-Reagan Washington National Airport are
Events
NASA and the Silicon Valley chapter of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) are partnering to cosponsor the 2015 Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Traffic Management Convention: A New Era in Aviation, July 28-30, at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. Convention speakers include
Military
The Tern program, which seeks to develop long-range drones that can launch from the deck of a ship, has already got a couple of spinoffs. Tern is a joint project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research that would boost the ISR (intelligence,