Transport
Drone Delivery Canada Corp. has announced the successful completion of the first flights in a commercial setting for the Canary Remote Piloted Aircraft on the Care by Air route, which is the Company’s longest ever commercial route at 13.4km. The Company completed 3 round trip flights with the
Transport
Amazon Prime Air has lost two executives key to the company’s drone delivery operations, the latest setback for an aspirational program that’s required hefty investment but has experienced scant success. Jim Mullin, Prime Air’s chief pilot, left Amazon last month, according to his LinkedIn profile. Robert Dreer,
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With a streamlined, smooth aesthetic, classic Italian lines and excellent performance - it's hard to understand why the CANT Z.511, which already holds such the accolade to its name of being the largest floatplane of all time - has been largely forgotten. The CANT Z.511 was
Research
Researchers have developed a new way to accurately count and objectively analyze close encounters between drones and airplanes — without depending solely on pilot sightings. In a peer-reviewed study published by the Society of Automotive Engineers in the SAE International Journal of Aerospace, researchers looked at more than 1.8 million
Business
Hypersonix Launch Systems Ltd. and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. have announced an Exclusive Teaming Agreement to provide the Hypersonix DART AE Hypersonic System within the U.S. market, integrated with Kratos’ Zeus family of solid rocket motors. The DART AE is a three-meter-long, single-use, high temperature alloy, hydrogen-fueled,
Business
Red Cat Holdings, Inc., a drone technology company integrating robotic hardware and software for military, government and commercial operations, announced that subsidiary Teal Drones has received a $2.6 million purchase order to supply its Teal 2 sUAS to the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Teal will deliver 172
Business
Garuda Aerospace has announced new partnerships with Titan Innovations, Easy Aerial, Azur Drones, Aero Sentinel & Securiton, for the nation-wide distribution of their drones across the defense, security, and civil infrastructure sectors. Fast becoming one of the world’s frontrunners in drone-based technology, the Indian drone market has been faced
Transport
EMED Group, one of the largest healthcare logistic providers to the UK's National Health Service, and Skyports Drone Services have successfully completed a proof-of-concept project aimed at bringing additional innovation and sustainability benefits to medical courier services. Launched in June 2023, the four-week trial was run with East
HAPS
A California start-up has broken the endurance flight record for small uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), with its test aircraft remaining aloft for three days and surpassing the previous milestone by nearly double. Kraus Hamdani Aerospace (KHA), which develops all-electric UAVs for defence and commercial applications, said on 2 August that
Business
Israel-based ParaZero Technologies Ltd., an aerospace company focused on drone safety systems for commercial drones and urban air mobility aircraft, has received a second order for its custom safety system for drones by one of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers. The repeat order follows an agreement previously signed with
Belarus wants to secure an agreement with Iran to produce Shahed drones in a converted factory in its southeastern Gomel Region, which borders Ukraine just north of the Dnipro’s “Sea of Kyiv” reservoir, western analysts have said. According to Institute for the Study of War (ISW) analysts, Belarusian Defense
Business
India in recent months has barred domestic manufacturers of military drones from using components made in China over concerns about security vulnerabilities, according to four defence and industry officials and tender documents. The measure comes amid tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours and as New Delhi pursues a military modernisation programme