Drone

The Drone Racing League (DRL) right now introduced key multi-year, worldwide companions and sponsors forward of its 2017 race season. In February, DRL launched Allianz because the title sponsor of DRL’s elite race circuit, leveraging the insurance coverage model’s motor racing sponsorship heritage to convey the “Sport of the Future” …

French industrial drone producer Delair-Tech has efficiently accomplished a BVLOS flight of 30 miles by way of 3G cell community. Electricity transmission firm RTE and Delair-Tech set a brand new distance file this morning once they flew a civilian drone 30 miles (50 kilometers).  Officially, the flight’s mission was to examine …

By Mike Winn, CEO and co-founder, DroneDeploy — DJI is at the moment successful the drone wars. Not solely have they captured the lion’s share of the market, however in only one 12 months they’ve additionally managed to launch a whole product line —from client to enterprise— the place different …

Kittyhawk, the drone administration platform for lovers and business pilots, has introduced the mixing of FAA sectional charts into its Flight Deck app and Web Dashboard to current Plus, Commercial and Enterprise subscribers. They rolled the brand new function out in response to overwhelming buyer demand.   ​The new function …

Amazon‘s drone delivery project has resulted in the filing of dozens of patents.  We’ve seen concepts for drones hitching rides on vans, a “welcome mat” fashion touchdown pad, folding wing designs, and even flying warehouses.   A brand new patent utility, filed in February however revealed yesterday, describes a plan for …

Florian Fischer has gained the “Dronie” award on the New York City Drone Film Festival for 3 years in a row. And it’s no surprise. His work elevates the dronie from a easy selfie shot by way of drone to one thing that’s each creative and technically spectacular. This yr …

A well known Japanese investor has began a $9M fund to encourage drone startups in Japan. Japanese information supply The Bridge stories that investor Kotaro Chiba joined Kamakura Investment Management to determine the 1 billion yen (about $9M US) DroneFund.  Chiba, a co-founder of Japanese gaming and site companies platform Colopl, …

Drones get a number of credit score for his or her pioneering potential throughout numerous industrial sectors. From inspection and upkeep to aerial images and agriculture, there’s no finish of use circumstances and excited adopters. But, as we’ve written about earlier than, the identical know-how can also be revolutionizing the environmental …

President Trump lately launched plans that will privatize the U.S. air site visitors management (ATC) system, successfully eradicating that accountability from the FAA. This information shouldn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock—the Trump finances launched again in March clearly referred to as for eradicating the ATC from the FAA—however it’s actually …

A current article printed on Recode.web speculated that the privatization of air site visitors management, as introduced by President Donald Trump earlier this week, might really velocity up drone integration – and the business purposes that may’t be utilized till it’s full, like drone supply. “The proposal to privatize air traffic …