courtesy: ZMI Drone manufacturer ZM Interactive recently picked Iris Automation as the detect-and-avoid provider. The deal will empower ZMI customers to conduct beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations. ZMI manufactures the xFold drone – an industrial, military-grade drone system that ships in various sizes and configurations. The frame can …

U.S. Air Force brass have been attempting for years to ground the service’s fleet of A-10 “Warthog” ground-attack jet fighters. Now they’re at it again — but this time there’s a novel twist to this story. At the same time as one arm of the Pentagon works to cancel the A-10, another …

Brücke-Osteuropa / CC0 Drones continue to cause costly delays and confusion at European airports.  The latest event halted traffic at Frankfurt Airport yesterday morning for almost two hours, according to German language media. A federal spokesperson said that a pilot spotted a drone at about 11:15 am, at which point …

file photo March Madness is hitting the drone world as six collegiate teams compete for $35,000 in a drone-design showdown. The ForePoint C3 Challenge is an inaugural competition in which the teams vie for a “final four” phase. The four winning teams will collaborate to design and fabricate an integrated …

As reports of airport disruptions or unwanted drone presence over public areas continue to increase, so does the counter drone technology sector.  Traditional methods of protecting areas against intruders repeatedly fail when it comes to drones: authorities all over the world have tried tracking them down with helicopters, vans, and …

image public domain The comment period for the Remote ID for Drones NPRM closed yesterday.  There were more than 50,000 comments posted on the NPRM, including and 89 page comment by the world’s leading drone manufacturer, DJI.  While DJI has been active in developing and implementing technology that could simplify …

From Simactive Canadian mapping software company SimActive has added additional capacity to be able to automatically assess multiple volumes of material (aggregates and other material) for projects and to report based upon the findings. If the same area is being flown, users can then compare the volumes and access differences …

Elon Musk believes the era of fighter jets is over and future warfare will be carried out by autonomous drones. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the prediction while speaking with US Air Force Lt. Gen. John Thompson at the Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida on Friday. ‘Drone warfare …

San Francisco-based Swift Navigation is working to make autonomous vehicles – including autonomous drones – more accurate.  Swift Navigation has announced a partnership with Deutsche Telekom that will bring their super accurate positioning system – accuracy to less than 10 cm – to Telekom customers. “Precise Positioning opens the doors …

Japan’s team teTra, a group of aerospace professionals who came together to compete in the GoFly Prize, has won the GoFly Final Flyoff for their personal flying machine design – but the big prize is still in the offing. It may sound like a dream, but the GoFly Prize is …