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The Marine Corps' first two Kaman K-MAX Helicopters arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, Saturday May 7, 2016. The K-MAX will be added to MCAS Yuma's already vast collection of military air assets, and will utilize the station's ranges to strengthen
Research
Boeing has opened a new research laboratory to test hardware and software that will make a new generation of autonomous air, sea and land vehicles work together more effectively as a team or unit. The lab will serve as the company's leading location for collaborative autonomous technology development
Commercial
No one says the 100-year old Elephant Butte Reservoir Dam is in any danger. But it is the first Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) dam in America to try out drone technology for some of its safety inspections. “So when there’s new technology out there, we will take our
Commercial
Riser (Remote Intelligence Survey Equipment for Radiation) reduces dose to operators and effectively characterises historic facilities to enable decommissioning progress. Background The 1957 fire at Sellafield’s Windscale Pile left radioactive contamination levels too high for decommissioning work to start. Although the intervening years have reduced these levels, remotely operated
Events
Drone World Expo 2016, in conjunction with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide, has launched an all new workshop - "Multirotor sUAS Safety and Operational Familiarization for the Commercial Operator." This one-day, hands-on course, to be offered as a pre-event workshop at Drone World Expo on Monday,
Accidents
A US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft crashed in northern Syria at approximately 7:10 a.m. local time, July 5, 2016. The aircraft was flying a combat mission when positive control of the aircraft was lost. The remotely piloted aircraft crash was not due to enemy
Commercial
Drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras are being deployed on the French side of the Channel Tunnel to track asylum seekers attempting to cross to the UK. Eurotunnel said the measure had been under consideration since the refugee crisis intensified last year but the deployment today comes amid speculation that
Business
PatentYogi has unveiled a patent application that might shine some light on the drone’s design. They found a patent published last week, filed by a GoPro employee who works on drones. If this is GoPro’s drone (and that’s a big if), it’s like nothing else on
Testing
IBM developer Andy Trice popped by the TechCrunch New York offices to demo a hack he’s been working on in his spare time, utilizing the company’s cloud computing platform and off-the-shelf drone hardware from DJI. The system, which started as a pet project for Trice, is
C-UAS
Poland’s Ministry of Defense has signed a contract for the deployment of non-kinetic countermeasures against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during the upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw. Bids to provide the services were due June 28, the ministry’s Armament Inspectorate said in a statement. The procurement is related
Commercial
DJI has introduced an improved version of its geofencing system in the latest update to the DJI GO app that controls its Phantom and Inspire aerial platforms. The Geospatial Environment Online (GEO) software will help pilots avoid flying drones near airports and other sensitive locations, and automatically update with temporary
Business
Avionics Services S.A. has officially launched its “MALE” UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) class 4 Caçador ("Hunter"). The launch took place at the Municipal Airdrome of Botucatu (SDBK). The event included a retrospective of the project, the system’s capacity and information about its strong potential for usage