Source: Bell Aviation giant Bell Aircraft Corporation soared through FAA drone benchmarks, landing beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) status with its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) Citing drone missions that require delivering “goods and information to critical – sometimes inaccessible – locations,” Bell snagged BVLOS to launch autonomous drone flights over …
Read More »Bell’s Scott Drennan Says Drone Taxis are on the Way – Soon
The Bell Company’s VP of Innovations Scott Drennan has a sense of humor. “We had jetpacks before Tony Stark,” he tells the audience at his keynote address at London’s Commercial UAV Show. He’s not really kidding: Bell, while better known for helicopters, started with planes, and have been pioneers in …
Read More »The Bell Nexus Drone Taxi Prototype: A Manned, Unmanned Sort…
This week at AUVSI’s Xponential, Textron company Bell Helicopters showed off a prototype of an urban air mobility vehicle – a drone taxi – and we’d ride in one without hesitation. First introduced at this year’s consumer electronics show (CES), the BellNexus is definitely in the prototype stage, although staff …
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