Chief Craig Capri holds a DJI Inspire UAV throughout a press convention to announce the implementation of a brand new aviation division, with assist from Embry-Riddle at Daytona Police Department, August 10, 2017. (Embry-Riddle/David Massey) As drones proceed to permeate each industrial and public sectors – police, agriculture, mining, development …

Many drones have now been designed for impediment avoidance, however Flyability has taken a special strategy to the issue with their Elios drone, which is designed to crash and hold going. The drone sits inside a protecting, versatile cage that may take in the influence of a collision with out …

A report from TechCrunch claims that motion cam and drone producer GoPro is about to lay off between 200 and 300 employees within the coming days. Most of these job losses are anticipated to fall within the firm’s underperforming aerial division. According to TechCrunch‘s sources, a letter to soon-to-be-departing GoPro workers …

When you look again at 2017, a complete lot has occurred on the regulatory entrance right here in the drone trade. So a lot, in reality, that it may be arduous to maintain observe of all of the developments and modifications. In this text we’re going to have a look …

By Smallbones (Own work) [CC0] The state of New Jersey is about to enact a legislation that can prohibit working a drone underneath the affect, Reuters experiences – however that’s not all of the legislation will do. “Drunk droning” makes good headlines – and whereas working a drone underneath the …

On Christmas Eve in Valencia, Spain Quaternium’s HYBRiX.20 fuel-electric quadcopter flew for a recorded 4 hours and forty minutes. This flight time is greater than double the recorded size on Guinness World Records for the longest drone flight, which is 2 hours, six minutes, and 7 seconds. (Since no Guinness consultant …

2018 will probably be the yr that loads of leisure drone pilots begin to take the pastime a bit extra critically. Whether that entails flying often, getting a dearer drone or transferring into business operations, a part of that course of is giving your gear a revamp. Over the previous …

By Cargyrak (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 ] 2017 was an enormous yr for drones: the trade noticed unprecedented development, progress in rules, and new makes use of and applied sciences virtually each week.  With 2018 upon us, DRONELIFE requested three trade thought leaders for his or her predictions about …

PUMA UAV Test Launch (PRNewsfoto/SolAero Technologies Corp.) A partnership between a number one solar-cell supplier and Johns Hopkins University might give a sunny forecast to longer drone battery life. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory lately awarded a contract to SolAero Technologies Corp. – maker of photo voltaic cells and aerospace-applied …

Drones are all over the place – floating over farm fields, diving into catastrophe scenes, exploring a probably life-harboring moon of Saturn (file scratch!). Wait. What?  No, you’re not struggling a post-holiday meals hangover – NASA might very nicely ship a drone to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Last week, the …