Ohio-based Tremco Roofing & Building Maintenance announced that its SkyBEAM unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has completed the first Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-approved night flight, to inspect rooftops at a southern Ohio business. More than 2.3 million square feet of roofing were scanned during the mission. The FAA granted approval to SkyBEAM for …

An anti-UAV company’s drone-dropping launcher proved to be Top Gun during a recent industry competition. Start-up firm OpenWorks Engineering won the Best UAS Interdiction Award at the Countering Unauthorized Unmanned Aircraft Systems Challenge in August. The company’s flagship product, SkyWall, stopped the most drones out of seven finalists. Staged at Quantico …

But development is vibrant, and you’ll see it work first in prosumer drones QuickTake THE FACTS: “Sense and avoid” for drones is a popular topic in the press right now, but the phrase can mean different things in different contexts and people. To clarify, there is a difference between solving …

Construction Company Brasfield & Gorrie Uses Drone-Generated 3D Model to Compare Actual Earthwork to Site Plans — Sponsored Post by Anya Lamb, @DroneDeploy According to a report from Goldman Sachs released earlier this year, construction will be the biggest commercial sector for drone use in the near future. We saw a …

1910 Rover Six As the drone industry anxiously watches federal drone laws unfold – slowly – it’s important to remember that we are at the very beginning of an emerging technology.  Drone laws may seem draconian now, as the federal government struggles to focus on safety and state and local lawmakers wrestle with …

Image: Aswan, CC 3.0 The FAA’s new Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) met last Friday for it’s inaugural meeting in Washington, DC.  The committee’s purpose is to provide recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration about fully integrating drones into the NAS. The committee’s membership was announced last week; it includes representatives from government, …

The momentous day has arrived. Many months ago GoPro, a company that has until now had an interesting but distant relationship with the drone industry, announced that the Karma was coming. The Karma would be the first drone made by an industry outsider, and we all expected big things from …

A new report says that the drone market is expected to reach 14.9 billion by 2020 – just 3-4 short years away.  The report also says that small drones will be a driving market force. “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Market by Class… – Global Forecast to 2020” by Research and Markets …

Guest Commentary by Terry Holland — wp-image-32995″ src=”http://dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FAA_logo.gif” alt=”part 107 test” width=”157″ height=”150″/>And once again, everything changes. With the FAA opening the sky to commercial drone use with the roll out of Part 107 (providing a clear and specific set of guidelines and regulations concerning the use of drones for …

There was a time when FPV drone racing was little more than a YouTube phenomenon. At one point it was just a few French guys flying around a forest. From there it progressed to parking lots and abandoned warehouses, before a hardcore community began to spring up all over the …