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courtesy: AIRT A Texas drone-safety group is teaming up with the Airborne Incident Response Team to respond more effectively to emergencies. The non-profit Public Safety Unmanned Response Team North Texas signed the agreement of cooperation with AIRT this past week. AIRT is the non-profit parent of DRONERESPONDERS, a group billed as …

Image from the EASA Website The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has recently published a document called “Easy Access Rules” that covers European drone regulations in an easy to understand and easy to use format. The 265 page document is available on their website for download here.  While 265 pages …

The Skydio 2 Drone manufacturers around the world are struggling to meet production schedules as the coronavirus continues to impact Chinese manufacturing systems. U.S.-based Skydio assembles drones in the U.S.: but the company is suffering from the supply-chain disruption caused by the slowdown in manufacturing of the component parts.  Advance customers …

courtesy: ZMI Drone manufacturer ZM Interactive recently picked Iris Automation as the detect-and-avoid provider. The deal will empower ZMI customers to conduct beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations. ZMI manufactures the xFold drone – an industrial, military-grade drone system that ships in various sizes and configurations. The frame can …

Brücke-Osteuropa / CC0 Drones continue to cause costly delays and confusion at European airports.  The latest event halted traffic at Frankfurt Airport yesterday morning for almost two hours, according to German language media. A federal spokesperson said that a pilot spotted a drone at about 11:15 am, at which point …

As reports of airport disruptions or unwanted drone presence over public areas continue to increase, so does the counter drone technology sector.  Traditional methods of protecting areas against intruders repeatedly fail when it comes to drones: authorities all over the world have tried tracking them down with helicopters, vans, and …

image public domain The comment period for the Remote ID for Drones NPRM closed yesterday.  There were more than 50,000 comments posted on the NPRM, including and 89 page comment by the world’s leading drone manufacturer, DJI.  While DJI has been active in developing and implementing technology that could simplify …

San Francisco-based Swift Navigation is working to make autonomous vehicles – including autonomous drones – more accurate.  Swift Navigation has announced a partnership with Deutsche Telekom that will bring their super accurate positioning system – accuracy to less than 10 cm – to Telekom customers. “Precise Positioning opens the doors …

Japan’s team teTra, a group of aerospace professionals who came together to compete in the GoFly Prize, has won the GoFly Final Flyoff for their personal flying machine design – but the big prize is still in the offing. It may sound like a dream, but the GoFly Prize is …

Jean-Christophe BENOIST / CC BY 3.0 Drones are being recognized as a culturally significant development.  In a recent press release,  DJI announced that one of their Agricultural drones is being exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as part of an exhibit “Countryside,  The Future Explores Digital Impact On the …