cargo drones

U.S. Air Force AFWERX Agility Prime Initiative Grants Mayman Aerospace $1.25M in Funding for development of Speeder Air Utility Vehicle, an ultra compact VTOL. by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby Yesterday, world leader in vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) technology Mayman Aerospace announced its acquisition of US$1.25 million in …

Alauda Completes 250th Test Flight for its Airpeeder Flying Car Racing Series by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby Alauda Aeronautics, the creator of the world premier flying electric car racing series Airspeeder, has completed its 250th Test Flight, bringing the company closer to its goal of growing the eVTOL …

Windracers Gains Third Funding Round from UKRI’s Future Flight by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby Cargo drone developer Windracers has announced a third round of successful funding obtained from UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Future Flight challenge, a program funding technological advancements. Continue reading below, or listen: Future Flight’s …

SwissDrones Completes Test Flights in Malta by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby This week, Transport Malta Civil Aviation Directorate (Transport Malta), Malta’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), and SwissDrones, a global manufacturer of long-range unmanned helicopter systems, oversaw a sequence of long-range Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) flights over …

In a big step forward for cargo drone delivery, CA-based Volansi has received flight approvals to operate beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) in Senegal. Africa has long been a leader in drone delivery applications, starting with Zipline’s widescale medical delivery operation in Rwanda.  This latest announcement, however, is different …

Volansi, a leading provider of long range cargo drones, has partnered with three of the nine participants in the FAA’s BEYOND program.  “Volansi is working directly with the ​North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), the North Dakota Department of Transportation and the University of Alaska Fairbanks for this effort,” says …

Japan’s SkyDrive is moving fast to put commercial flying cars into the air over Osaka Bay.  The company, which launched a cargo drone this spring and flew their first flying car test flights this summer, plans to launch their air mobility product commercially by 2023.  It’s an ambitious timeline, but a …

Source: Drone Delivery Canada Transport Canada has issued a proposal that would allow very large drones, such as cargo drones, to fly beyond the remote pilot’s visual line of sight (BVLOS) when traveling in remote areas. The proposal takes a risk-based approach to flying beyond visual line of sight without …

Courtesy of EHang China-based EHang, the passenger drone company that went public last year, has announced first quarter results.  Despite the global pandemic, EHang showed year over year revenue growth.  The company is also broadening it’s applications: in addition to emergency response operations revealed in the current crisis, EHang recently …

Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has announced that the project announced in October with  DSC Air & Sea will go live in March.  It’s a big step for the drone delivery company, which produces both hardware and software: and an even bigger move for the logistics and shipping industry – which …