BVLOS Flight

Utility Line Inspections by Drone Phoenix Air

Phoenix Air Unmanned logs 13,000 miles of BVLOS utility line inspections by drone By Jim Magill After about three years of operations, Cartersville, Georgia-based Phoenix Air Unmanned announced it has logged more than 13,000 miles of beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flights, inspecting utility transmission lines for Xcel Energy. …

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BVLOS Flight, No Visual Observers: Volatus and FlightOps Rec…

Volatus Aerospace with FlightOps OS Receives Canada’s First Certificate for BVLOS flight, no visual observers. by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby Volatus Aerospace, using the FlightOps OS, has become the first company in Canada to obtain a Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC), authorizing …

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Drones on Mars: Skypersonic’s Tests on Mt. Etna

Skypersonic Validates Drone Technology on Mt. Etna for Future Use on Mars by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby Skypersonic is a subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings. Red Cat Holdings [NASDAQ:RCAT]  is held in the AdvisorShares Drone Technology ETF [NYSE ARCA:UAV], the only ETF dedicated to the drone economy. The AdvisorShares …

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WonderLand: Wonder Robotics Scores Seed Funding

Welcome to WonderLand, as Wonder Robotics Launches Autonomous Drone Solution with $4M Seed Round by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Drone autonomous flight and landing specialist Wonder Robotics has announced the closing of $4 million in a seed round led by Elron Ventures alongside Besadno Investment Group. Continue reading …

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Skypersonic Remote Inspection by Drone

Skypersonic Remote Operations: Inspecting an Industrial Plant with Drone Piloted from Across the Atlantic Ocean Via Cellphone Connection by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby Red Cat Holdings [NASDAQ:RCAT]  is held in the AdvisorShares Drone Technology ETF [NYSE ARCA:UAV], the only ETF dedicated to the drone economy. The AdvisorShares Drone …

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Enabling Drones in Oil and Gas Industry BVLOS Flight

Industry Experts Speak – What Will It Take to Make BVLOS A Reality, Enabling Drones in the Oil and Gas Industry and Beyond?  By: Dawn Zoldi Continue reading below, or listen: More than six years ago when Jon Damush, the current CEO of Iris Automation, was the Chief Growth Officer …

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American Robotics Reese Mozer Types of BVLOS Flight

The Many Flavors of BVLOS – an explanation of the different types of BVLOS flight, and what they mean for regulators and industry. The following is a guest post by Reese Mozer, Co-Founder and CEO of American Robotics (NASDAQ:ONDS), a US manufacturer of industrial drones. DRONELIFE neither makes nor accepts …

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Iris Automation Casia G Ground-Based Detect and Avoid

Iris Automation Launches Casia G: Ground-based Surveillance System by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Today, Iris Automation announced that its ground-based detect and avoid (DAA) surveillance solution, Casia G, will be made commercially available. Utilizing the same AI and computer vision technology as Iris Automation’s onboard solutions, Casia G …

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Percepto Remote Drone Operations: Groundbreaking BVLOS Appro…

Percepto Remote Drone Operations in Israel by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Today, leading autonomous inspection solution provider Percepto announced that it has been granted Beyond Visual Line of Site (BVLOS) approval by the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel (CAAI) for the operation of drones at three industrial sites …

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Commercial Drone Alliance on BVLOS ARC Report

image: Wing The release of the FAA’s BVLOS (drone flight beyond visual line of sight) ARC (Aviation Rulemaking Committee) recommendations last week has led to many responses and comments from the commercial drone industry.  DRONELIFE spoke to Lisa Ellman, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Commercial Drone Alliance, on BVLOS …

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