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Air Traffic Control For Drones

Drones are about to transform the way we transport groceries, takeouts, medical supplies, home deliveries, your morning coffee… even people. And that means we need a failsafe way to track the thousands of pilotless vehicles flying above our heads. For ordinary aircraft, with human pilots, we have air traffic controllers …

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Gadkari unveils advanced drone air traffic management system

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on February 8th unveiled Skye UTM, touted as the most cutting-edge unmanned traffic management system in the world, which is capable of handling 4,000 flights per hour and 96,000 flights per day. Skye UTM is a Cloud-based aerial traffic management system …

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Lobo Leasing and Air Taurus enter LOI to lease unmanned airc…

Lobo Leasing and Air Taurus Limited, the Irish Group affiliate of humanitarian logistics specialist AYR Logistics Limited (AYR), have entered into a letter of intent to lease five Pipistrel Nuuva V300 hVTOL unmanned cargo aircraft. The companies will cooperate in developing a leasing model for the new asset class. Lobo …

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Pierce Aerospace Announces Partnership with Skye Air Mobilit…

Pierce Aerospace announced a partnership with Skye Air Mobility at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV. The partnership brings Pierce Aerospace’s Flight Portal ID UAS Technologies as an integrated Remote ID solution with Skye Air Mobility’s drone delivery platforms and Skye UTM (Skye Air’s proprietary Unmanned Traffic Management …

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H3 Dynamics Adds Hydrogen-Electric Propulsion to HyLight Air…

H3 Dynamics and HyLight have joined forces to bring new long range, sustainable and quiet unmanned airships to a range of commercial applications. Traditionally, airships use combustion engines for their propulsion power. With new hydrogen propulsion system developments at H3 Dynamics, HyLight’s new breed of airships will now offer long-range zero emission flight and open a whole new …

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From mental health care to drone missions: Air Force group i…

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. David Tubman, 386th Expeditionary Medical Squadron clinical psychologist, speaks while using a video conferencing program at Ali Al Salem, Kuwait, on Nov. 26, 2022. He says the program will allow airmen to call mental health staff while deployed. (J.P. Lawrence/Stars and Stripes) ALI AL SALEM …

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US Air Force Successfully Tests Subsonic Drone With Range of…

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Kratos Defense and Security Solutions successfully tested the XQ-58A Valkyrie Block 2 unmanned aircraft last week at the Yuma Proving Ground, as reported first by Interesting Engineering. Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have been utilized in combat for about 20 years. Despite being costly …

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New Air Force group to test AI and anti-drone tech in Middle…

An Iranian Ababil-5 drone on display in Iran. The Air Force is starting a new organization to field-test unmanned systems and artificial intelligence technologies in the Middle East, Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, 9th Air Force commander, said Monday. (Twitter/Iranian Defense Ministry) The Air Force is starting a new organization to …

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Confronting Challenges Impacting Drones and the Air Mobility…

Autonomous drone flights enable scalability while reducing operating costs and lowering the environmental footprint For many years experts have predicted that futuristic technologies will disrupt the status quo and reshape our daily lives and society. One day we may all have flying cars just like George Jetson. The mass adoption …

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