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Alphabet’s Wing new drone prototype will increase the payload weight – significantly increasing the variety of items that can be delivered by drone. Continue reading below, or listen: In a blog post, Wing CEO Adam Woodworth wrote that Wing is developing an “aircraft library” – a “variety of different vehicles …

Wing Drone Delivery in Texas Starts April 7, 2022. by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Today, Alphabet subsidiary Wing has announced that it will be launching its drone delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex this Thursday, April 7th. The service – the first of its kind in a …

Wing in Texas: Wing’s planned DFW delivery service to take flight later this year By Jim Magill Wing, the subsidiary of Alphabet that has pioneered drone home delivery service in cities in Australia as well as Helsinki, Finland; and Christiansburg, Virginia, is planning to launch its service later this year …

AgEagle Teams with Wing to Integrate OpenSky into Ground Control by Ian M. Crosby Today, industry leader AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Measure, has teamed up with Wing in order to integrate Wing’s OpenSky airspace access app into Measure Ground Control, a software platform for automating drone …

Wing CTO Adam Woodworth is one of the most influential aviation experts in the drone industry today – but very few people would recognize him.  In a rare public appearance at this year’s SxSW conference, Woodworth talks about developing an aircraft that will allow millions of people to experience drone delivery …

Automated airspace approval has been a game changer for commercial pilots in the U.S., through the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC).  The digital transformation of a slow and manual process means that drone pilots can get the authorization required within minutes rather than, in some cases, weeks.  Now, …

image courtesy Wing The UTM Pilot Program has ended it’s second phase, with a group of industry players demonstrationg the production ready technologies that will help enable drone integration. “The FAA’s Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management Pilot Program (UPP) completed its second phase with the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP) at …

Wing‘s drone delivery trial in Christianburg, VA will continue as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s BEYOND program, the next phase of the now complete UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP.) Google’s spin-off Wing has been a leader in pushing forward residential drone delivery of everyday items in the U.S. …

 The proposed Remote ID rule was several years in the development – but as the FAA reviews the thousands of comments it received on the rule, industry stakeholders still hope that changes to accommodate non-commercial interests will be made. Today, drone industry stakeholders incuding the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA), …

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 …