Technology
Solar Impulse 2 touched down in Abu Dhabi early on Tuesday morning after completing the first Round-the-World solar flight in history. Bertrand Piccard made one last smooth landing, kissing the warm tarmac with his solar airplane after a 48 hour and 37 minute flight in Al1 Bateen Executive Airport, Abu
Military
Northrop Grumman Corporation's autonomous Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) surpassed 200,000 flight hours, reinforcing its status as the most effective high altitude, long endurance intelligence gathering aircraft in the world. The U.S. Air Force's Global Hawks logged 88 percent of the 200,000
Accidents
The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan has claimed the fighters of the group have shot down a drone in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan. The group shared a photo of the downed drone captured which is apparently a reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle used by the Afghan forces. The Taliban said
News
Amazon has announced a partnership with the UK Government to explore the steps needed to make the delivery of parcels by small drones a reality, allowing Amazon to trial new methods of testing its delivery systems. A cross-Government team supported by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has provided Amazon
News
7‑Eleven, the world’s largest convenience retailer, and Flirtey, a leading independent drone delivery service, announced they have completed the first fully autonomous drone delivery to a customer’s residence to advance research toward integrating drones into the National Airspace System. This delivery is the first time a U.
News
Airbus demonstrated aircraft visual inspection using a drone at the Farnborough Airshow. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), equipped with a high definition camera, performed visual inspection for the upper part of the aircraft. It was flown using an automatic flight control system supervised by a human pilot. The drone followed
Business
Co-founder Lucas van Oostrum formally announced Delft Aerial Robotics’s plans to execute an autonomous drone network in the Netherlands within the next year. DAR has strategically invested in start-ups that solve problems related to full autonomy for drones. Now, DAR has revealed its true objective: to deploy autonomous drone
Military
CyPhy Works announced that it has received an order for its Persistent Aerial Reconnaissance and Communications (PARC) System, from the U.S. Army's Rapid Equipping Force (REF). PARC, a tethered drone, addresses the need for a persistent eye-in-the-sky by flying for days at a time. In supporting U.
Military
The U.S. Navy will conduct two technology demonstrations of swarming unmanned vehicles over the next nine weeks, the chief of naval research said. The demonstrations in July and September will feature unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), respectively. The demonstration during the last week of July
Military
The UK Royal Navy's (RN's) unmanned aviation trials and development unit, 700X Naval Air Squadron (NAS), has started to take delivery of a series of sub-20 kg commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) mini unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) to evaluate their performance and inform possible future acquisitions. The aspiration is
Events
We wanted to find out more about the team behind Drone World Expo – what makes them tick, what motivates them and what are the secrets behind the success of the event. We interviewed Advisory Board member Michael Chambliss. Michael is a technologist and business representative for the for the International
Propulsion
[video width="1280" height="720" m4v="https://www.uasvision.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Aquila-2016-Broll-Broadband.m4v"][/video] Connectivity Lab announced the first full-scale test flight of Aquila, facebook's high-altitude unmanned aircraft. Aquila is a solar-powered airplane that can be used to bring