Soaring Eagle Granted Waiver for Longest Distance T&D Commercial Operations by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M Crosby Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) drone data collection company Soaring Eagle Technologies has been granted a Beyond Visual Line of Site (BVLOS) waiver for the inspection of up to 27 linear miles, marking the …
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Optelos drone inspection services, announced today, offer a turnkey and risk-free solution to enterprise clients who want the benefits of drone-captured digital data – without the hassle of training pilots and buying hardware. Over the last several years, data experts Optelos have significantly built their partner network and continually developed …
Read More »the Air Force “Base of the Future”
Automated drone solutions have significant value in applications from surveillance to inspections of aircraft, buildings, and infrastructure. Drones on military bases have the same value – and drone startup Easy Aerial is competing to bring their tethered drone technology to the Air Force Base of the Future. AFWERX, the catalyst …
Read More »DRONELIFE Exclusive: How Drones Will Change Power Line Strin…
Image Provided by SkySkopes Drones have been used in the power industry for a few years now, but in the U.S., power line stringing is a relatively new application. It’s an application that offers massive cost and time savings – and is one that could permanently change the way power …
Read More »DJI Partner Heliguy Awarded Contract With Major UK Rail Oper…
UK-based Heliguy, one of DJI’s largest European enterprise partners and distributors, has been awarded a nationwide contract with Network Rail as part of a drone services framework worth up to £2.6million. Heliguy will supply, maintain, repair and service Network Rail’s drones, as well as delivering training courses to the infrastructure …
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One of the most common questions we get at DRONELIFE is from new pilots. Wherever they are, or whatever their specialty, we’ve been asked the same question hundreds, if not thousands, of times: “How do I get a job in the industry?” The answer isn’t as simple as getting a …
Read More »InterDrone Update: PRODRONE Announces Drones with Enhanced Capabilities to Address Industrial Use
At the InterDrone show in Las Vegas PRODRONE has introduced two drones for industrial use that have unique features for wide range of commercial tasks.They are the PRODRONE PD6B-AW-ARM and the PD6-CI-L PRODRONE PD6B-AW-ARM The PRODRONE PD6B-AW-ARM is a large-format drone equipped with two internally-developed robotic arms, enabling it to …
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