Sightec’s NavSight AI-powered computer vision solution adds visual situational awareness and GPS-free, vision-based navigation to ParaZero SafeAir autonomous parachute recovery systems, ensuring increased safety in virtually any operational environment and offering a benchmark solution for enhanced mission containment and ground risk mitigation. Continue reading below or listen: Revolutionary Fusion of …
Read More »ParaZero Files IPO This Week
Drone safety systems pioneer ParaZero has filed an IPO this week. The IPO will be underwritten by Aegis Corp.: 2.5 million shares will be offered at a price between $5.20 – $7.20. Continue reading below or listen: “The Kiryat Ono, Israel-based company plans to raise $16 million by offering 2.5 million units …
Read More »What Happens When a Drone Crashes into a Windshield
Researchers at Virginia Tech University, working with State Farm insurance and ParaZero drone safety systems, have finally answered the question of what happens when a drone crashes into a windshield. Data gathered in the study resulted in State Farm® receiving an FAA waiver to fly over moving vehicles as of …
Read More »Skywatch.AI Partners with Parazero: Drone Pilots Save Money …
Two players in the commercial drone space have just announced a partnership to help reduce insurance costs for commercial drone pilots. It’s a partnership that makes sense – an InsurTech platform that’s all about quantifying risks, and a developer of drone safety systems proven to significantly reduce those risks: these …
Read More »North Dakota Reports Another Waiver for Flight Over People W…
The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) announced today that the agency has received a four-year waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) over people: specifically, for a DJI Mavic 2 series equipped with a ParaZero SafeAir parachute recovery system. FAA approved the waiver and …
Read More »FAA Issues Waiver for Drones With Parachutes to Fly Over Peo…
In a significant move towards making flight over people more available to companies with commercial drone applications, the FAA has announced that they have issued the Hensel Phelps Construction Company of Greeley, Colorado, a Part 107 waiver to operate a DJI Phantom 4 drone equipped with a parachute over people. The …
Read More »Is Flight Over People the Tipping Point for the Commercial D…
In The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, author Malcolm Gladwell defines the tipping point as “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point”. It’s hard to say exactly when the tipping point for the commercial drone industry will be, or what in particular might cause …
Read More »Headed to AUVSI Xponential Today? Here are Some of the Booth…
julie corsi from Palos Heights, IL, USA [CC BY 2.0 ] If you’re headed to AUVSI’s Xponential in Chicago today, get ready for a huge show of all things unmanned. Xponential is one of the biggest shows in the industry, with so much to see and hear that attendees are spoiled …
Read More »How to Get a Waiver for Flight Over People: ParaZero Meets N…
Now that the FAA has opened the door – if only narrowly – to flight over people, drone pilots are getting ready to apply for waivers. Authorities, at least in the early stages, are almost certainly going to keep on the conservative side of safety in granting them. Drone pilots …
Read More »5 Technologies Improving Drone Safety
Earlier this month, Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao addressed the Transportation Research Board and revealed details of several new drone industry initiatives. Among them was a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that could open up the skies for flights at night and over people. There was also an announcement about a UTM …
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