Business
In the past 12 months (ending April 2016), drone sales in the USA have grown 224 percent year-over-year to nearly $200 million, according to The NPD Group's Retail Tracking Service. Over the past six months (ending April 2016), sales growth has accelerated to more than four times higher
Military
A scale model of the Frigate, Russia’s up and coming multi-purpose tilt-rotor drone, is undergoing preliminary testing. Frigate is designed as a multi-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle capable of performing both surveillance and search-and-rescue missions, as well as cargo transportation duties. Frigate is expected to be deployed in the Arctic
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The submission period for the Airbus Cargo Drone Challenge closed on Sunday and ended up being Local Motors’ most successful co-creation endeavour in company history. The challenge received over 100 entries in the final 48 hours of the submission period to reach a total of 423. That number surpassed the
Testing
The European ARIADNA consortium led by Indra and integrated by CRIDA, ENAIRE and Fada-Catec has completed the first simultaneous flight tests in a conventional airport of a drone or remotely piloted aircraft (RPAS/UAS) in the presence of a manned aircraft. This is one of the first flying experiences undertaken
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If there’s ever a radiological catastrophe in the U.S. like the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, the stewards of the former national nuclear weapons proving ground in Nevada expect to be ready to deploy remote-controlled drones to check for contamination. Nevada National Security Site officials have purchased two
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American Aerospace Technologies, Inc. (AATI) announced that it has successfully completed flight tests for the energy industry utilizing Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) from the Farmville Regional Airport in Farmville, VA. The campaign just completed was the first in Virginia where flights originated at an operating airport, and the first with
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AeroVironment, Inc. announced at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference that the United States Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) is evaluating the company’s new tethered unmanned aircraft system, named Tether Eye™, for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) and security applications. The CTTSO funded the development program under a US
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Remotely piloted aircraft systems, more commonly known as drones, need to be registered with the Civil Aviation Authority of Fiji before being flown. This is part of the message being sent out to the public through the CAAF's public awareness campaign on the potential danger and safety measures
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The National Telecommunications & Information Administration released Thursday a list of voluntary privacy best practices for commercial and non-commercial drone users, in the wake of concerns that drones could encroach on individual privacy and open a new front in the collection of personal data for commercial use. The privacy guidance,
Events
The Russian Helicopters manufacturer unveiled its three new unmanned aerial vehicles, including an upgraded tiltrotor, a multirotor and a helicopter at the HeliRussia-2016 international helicopter industry exhibition. The ninth HeliRussia-2016 exhibition is due to take place between May 19 and May 21 in Moscow. Organized by Russia's Industry
Commercial
The Elbit Systems Hermes 450 aircraft took off from the Hillsboro airport on May 20th. to start a summer-long project that will take pictures of farmland in the fertile Red River Valley. The test is meant to show whether the larger drone is more efficient to capture imagery of agricultural
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Icaros Inc., a provider of aerial remote sensing services and software, has announced that Harris Geospatial Solutions, a division of Harris Corporation, will offer the Icaros OneButton family of image processing software as a front-end complement to its ENVI geospatial analytics solution for users extracting information from manned and unmanned