Testing
Kawasaki Heavy Industries announced that it has successfully carried out the first flight tests of the K-RACER (Kawasaki Researching Autonomic Compound to Exceed Rotorcraft) at the Taiki-Cho Multipurpose Aerospace Park in Hokkaido. Interestingly, the unmanned compound helicopter was equipped with a supercharged Ninja H2R engine. The K-RACER is a special
Agriculture
Pyka, a California-based tech startup, develops autonomous electric airplanes that may be spraying fields as the technology matures into the next decade. "Five years is a long time for us. The technology will evolve a lot over the next five years. There will be a lot of refinement,"
Business
SK Telecom has teamed up with Uber to launch a new joint venture in the taxi market in South Korea that will also look ahead to future mobility technologies, such as flying cars. Uber will invest a total of US$150 million in the as-yet unnamed venture and in SKT’
News
FoxFury Lighting Solutions has announced the launch of the Made in USA D10 lights for small format drones. The D10 is an ultra-lightweight, small format drone light that meets global night flight requirements. The D10 improves image capture quality and features: • Battery Life of 30 - 80 minutes • Rechargeable LiPo
C-UAS
Savage Corp has revealed new details of a missile custom made to stop drone swarms. Savage Corp, a startup headquartered in Erie, Colorado, takes a different approach to traditional missile-makers. The SAVAGE missile — “Smart Anti-Vehicle Aerial Guided Engagement” – is a low-cost unit made of carbon fiber and aluminium with 3D-printed
News
Pierce Aerospace announced that it has been accepted into the 2020 cohort for Hyperspace Challenge, a business accelerator run by the Air Force Research Laboratory and CNM Ingenuity for the U.S. Space Force. The goal of Hyperspace Challenge is to accelerate collaboration and partnership between the U.S. government
News
SOARIZON has just released a comprehensive suite of new features: SOARIZON Organisations. This makes it easier for existing drone teams within businesses and organisations to collaborate on projects together, while maintaining a central record of all planning and flight information for compliance and audit. The release, known as Organisations, has
Business
Pipistrel has selected Honeywell's Compact Fly-By-Wire system for the Nuuva V300 cargo unmanned aerial vehicle, choosing a modern, lightweight, highly capable system with a proven architecture ideally suited for its autonomous cargo UAV. Fly-by-wire computers act as the "brains" of an aircraft's flight controls
News
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has delivered a digitalised and secure system for the exchange of drones registration data among the national authorities of the Member States, putting the technical framework in place to allow registered users to fly their drones anywhere in the European Union with a
First Responders
Under the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP), earlier this week Iris Automation conducted a live drone flight demonstration for the City of Reno Fire Department of its Casia onboard Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) collision avoidance system, which enables safe beyond visual line of sight
Propulsion
The first Dutch solar drone manufactured by Avy, performed a successful test flight at the end of this summer. The drone is equipped with custom solar foil developed by Wattlab to reflect and absorb more sunlight. The solar-powered prototype is designed to be used for urgent medical transport, support emergency
Testing
Deutsche Telekom and its technology partner Stratospheric Platforms Ltd conducted the world's first successful demonstration of LTE/4G voice and data connectivity over a platform flying at the edge of the stratosphere and fully integrated into a commercial mobile network. Beginning of October, several test flights were carried