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,
Training
Textron Systems Support Solutions, a subsidiary of aerospace and defense firm Textron Inc., has announced the introduction of its new unmanned systems training course catalog. Building on the company’s decades of experience and millions of service hours devoted to training and deploying skilled unmanned systems operators and maintainers around
Business
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Sky Sapience have signed an agreement for the development, marketing and production of new tethered hovering aerial systems. IAI and Sky Sapience plan to use and integrate existing capabilities and products from both companies on board the systems geared towards defense, homeland security, and commercial
Commercial
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Electronic Sub-Systems
A company in Germany is offering a new solution to the problem of drone collision: a collision avoidance unit which works with different sensors, does not need GPS-positioning and can be fitted into almost any rotary wing or multirotor platform. Drones have already become an important tool for many