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China's largest mail company is set to deliver more than 1,000 packages a day by drone. S.F. Express has revealed it already has a fleet of aircraft flying 500 parcels a day to remote areas, and it is now looking to double the capacity. The all-
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Austin-based ArchAerial's new drone mission could potentially save lives in war-torn regions that are prone to accidents and fatalities from unexploded bombs. An aerial imaging firm, ArchAerial, already employs multi-rotor aircrafts for agricultural mapping, academic research and archeological surveys. Over the weekend at SXSW, Ryan
The head of a project that is developing commercial drones predicts the day will come when passenger aircraft will fly without pilots. Dave Vos, head of Google's Project Wing, said Monday his personal view is that it's completely doable and that it will occur in his
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in the period between 1985 and 2014, 60.7% of all exported unmanned aircraft in the world were produced in Israel. The United States comes second as a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles, as it supplied 23.9% of all (Unmanned
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As civil structures become massive and high, the maintenance and inspection for the structures are getting important, however most of the conventional maintenance and inspection methods are labor-intensive. It has a problem of the large cost due to the staffing professionals, lack of professional manpower and high risk for
We've had reports in the last couple of days that some newsletter subscribers who use Outlook have had issues with the Daily Newsletter. This appears to have been triggered by a recent automatic update to Outlook which conflicts with the mass-mailing of our newsletter. We are working
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The Federal Aviation Administration has established an interim policy to speed up airspace authorizations for certain commercial unmanned aircraft (UAS) operators who obtain Section 333 exemptions. The new policy helps bridge the gap between the past process, which evaluated every UAS operation individually, and future operations after we publish a
German designer Eric Huisman mocked up a sleek drone concept called the Apple Quadcopter, which has a minimalistic black-and-white design. It's very, well, Apple. In a series of photos posted to his website, which are stylised to look like Apple's traditional promotional pictures, the
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DARPA has awarded prime contracts for Phase 2 of Tern, a joint programme between DARPA and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR). The goal of Tern is to give forward-deployed small ships the ability to serve as mobile launch and recovery sites for medium-altitude,
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Crafty Game Of Thrones fans have been thwarted from getting any sneak behind-the-scenes peeks after a ban on drones above the set. Signs erected close to the filming studios in Titanic Quarter, East Belfast, warn of a "no-fly zone" . And novice pilots are told they
Google’s quest to introduce small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into low altitude airspace within a “few years” has driven the company to launch an unexpected foray into the avionics market, says Dave Vos, head of the Internet company’s Project Wing. Two companies – L-3 Aviation Products and FreeFlight
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SAAB has tied up with Anil Ambani’s Reliance Defence and Aerospace to bid for the ship-borne unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programme of the Indian Navy, valued at 1,000 crore ($160M). Sources in the know said the tie-up will probably mark the entry of European UAVs into