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Rob Corbett receives certification as an AFOSI agent A Veteran’s Day Salute – Flight Takes Many Forms (All images courtesy Rob Corbett, used with permission.) As soon as he impacted the ground, he knew something was seriously wrong. In December 2016, a freak fall while snowboarding left U.S. Air Force …

Mavic 3 features upgraded sensor, dual-camera system and longer flight times By Jim Magill With the long-anticipated release of the Mavic 3, DJI, the global leader in civilian drone production, offers a UAV featuring an upgraded sensor, dual-camera system, omnidirectional obstacle sensing, smarter flight modes and longer flight times. The …

Parrot, Logiroad complete ‘impossible’ drone mapping mission over Positano By Jim Magill The Italian town of Positano, which hugs the cliffs along Italy’s scenic Amalfi Coast, is a delight for tourists and fashion lovers, and a nightmare for mapmakers. The city’s topography, with streets that wind along the hills and …

Small manufacturer of crop spraying drones takes on big competition By Jim Magill Mark Twain once said, “Buy land; they’re not making it anymore.” If he were alive today, he probably would have added that buyers of agricultural land should also look into using drone technology in order to improve the …

AgEagle Acquires senseFly, Launches New MicaSense Sensor by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Industry leader AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. and leading European drone group Parrot revealed in a joint announcement that they have signed an agreement under which AgEagle will acquire Parrot subsidiary senseFly in a cash and stock …

Photo by Jim MagillPercepto officials display a drone at the Energy Drone & Robotics Summit in The Woodlands, Texas. From left: Brian Babcock, U.S. sales director; Anat Tal, project manager; Percepto CEO Dor Abuhasira. New products from Percepto will be introduced next month, CEO says. By Jim Magill Looking to …

In “Digitise the Skies,” researchers suggest the the U.K. invest £10m “in making recreational aircraft visible to drones” which “would remove major barrier to innovation and set stage for 420,000% return,” says publishers.   The paper also suggests that the U.K. drone industry would benefit from the appointment of a a …

ANRA takes flight in Japan,  showcasing airspace management and drone delivery platforms. by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Today, ANRA Technologies, a leader in integrated airspace, mission management and delivery systems for uncrewed aircraft, announced that it will be participating in live drone flights over Japan as part of …

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 …

Ryan Gury, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons DRL and Draganfly partner to develop new UAV technologies By Jim Magill The Drone Racing League (DRL) and drone systems developer Draganfly are teaming up to develop innovative drone technologies to power up the racing world as well as to create new …