image courtesy Atlas Dynamics There is nothing better than a search and rescue story – no matter who it is being rescued. Last week, Atlas Dynamics documented the drone rescue of a Beluga whale – an endangered species – by the Norwegian People’s AID Search and Rescue Unit, using the …
Read More »Ready, Set, Drone Gives DRONELIFE their Take
Is the DJI Mavic Air 2 the drone that hits that perfect balance between cost and functionality? Read our reviewers take before you buy! The following is a post by Kelly Shores, the drone expert behind the Ready Set Drone community on YouTube. With the release of the Mavic Mini …
Read More »Unmanned Traffic Management Unifly Announces New CEO DRONELI…
One of Europe’s big names in unmanned traffic management (UTM) has announced a shift in leadership. Unifly announces new CEO Leon van de Pas will succeed well known drone industry figure Marc Kegelaers. Belgium-based Unifly has been a major player in UTM since the field emerged. Unifly has been instrumental …
Read More »Drones for this Hurricane Season: Getting States Ready
image: public domain As Isaias approaches Florida, states are getting serious about using drones for this hurricane season. In a webinar hosted by AUVSI NC, a panel of experts gave their best advice to state agencies preparing to use UAV for hurricane response. Drones play a crucial role in allowing …
Read More »EHang Launches a Firefighting Drone for High-Rise Fires [VID…
EHang has had a great year. Now, the world’s leading passenger drone platform is not introducing an entirely new aircraft, but a new application. EHang is launching a new version of the EHang 216 as a firefighting drone. EHang’s firefighting drone, the EHang 216F, is specially designed for high-rise firefighting. …
Read More »UTM in the U.K. Catapult Connected Places Project
Halftermeyer / CC BY-SA UTM in the U.K is moving forward. The project reads like a Who’s Who from the unmanned traffic management (UTM) industry: Wing, GE Technology’s AiRXOS, ANRA Technologies, Altitude Angel, and Raytheon’s Collins Aerospace will work with the U.K.’s Connected Places Catapult (CPC) to develop an open-access UTM framework …
Read More »COM3T Drones for STEM Education Right Price Right Size
Adding unmanned systems to a science and math curriculum has tremendous advantages for students, teachers, and the drone industry: but drones for STEM education programs are often too expensive for many school systems and may come without an easy-to-follow curriculum. COM3T Drones, a new company founded by an impressive group …
Read More »Airial Launches New Gyrotrak Drone Line
Source: Airial Gyrotrak German drone provider Airial Robotics this week unveiled a new drone carrier system known as Gyrotrak. A hybrid concept, Gyrotrak combines “tried-and-tested aerodynamic principles with the latest technologies,” an Airial statement notes. Company officials say the drone platform creates “a new class of drone that clearly exceeds …
Read More »DJI Responds to Reports of Potential Go App Security Problem…
Are reports of DJI Go App security problems overblown, or cause for concern? By DRONELIFE staff writer, Jim Magill Two related studies, released last week by a pair of cybersecurity companies, claim to reveal potential flaws in a DJI flight operation software system, which researchers say could be exploited “to …
Read More »EHang Gets Special Flight Ops Certificate
In big progress for urban air mobility in North America, EHang announces that they will soon start testing passenger drones in Canada. EHang announced that their flagship passenger drone, the EHang 216, has obtained a Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) issued by the Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA), the civil …
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