Rhode Island-based Deepwater Wind, who began commercial operation of the first U.S. offshore wind farm in 2016, recently authorized deployments of drone technology to capture high-resolution data of all five of its offshore wind platforms just off Block Island. Imagery and data obtained during the flights will be used as a baseline for comparative data…
Tag: Drones
New York Police Unveil Drone Program
Members of the New York Police Department’s Technical Assistance Response Unit, or TARU, will use 14 drones, which will cost the department $480,000 in 2019, according to an NYPD spokeswoman. A member of the unit will operate a drone remotely to make three-dimensional projections of traffic accidents, search for evidence and collect details in spills…
Competition to build the Navy’s MQ-25 flying tanker shows how drone fighters are taking on new roles
The U.S. military has come to rely on drones for surveillance, reconnaissance and attack. Soon, another job will be added to the list: refueling aircraft in midair. Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Co. and General Atomics are all vying for a U.S. Navy contract to build the MQ-25 Stingray, an unmanned aerial tanker that will be…
Drones delivering blood in emergencies
Palo Alto, California, hopes to become the first U.S. city to use unmanned aircraft to deliver blood from a blood bank to a hospital. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reviewing the city’s proposal, along with about 150 others. The agency will approve 10 projects to move forward next month. Drones delivering blood in…
Xponential: Novadem Will Launch New Tethered Drone
In April, French drone company Novademwill unleash it newest tethered UAV platform, the NXWIRE 2.0 at AUVSI XPONENTIAL, the largest UAS trade show that brings together more than 8,500 unmanned systems industry leaders. A second-generation tethered system, NXWIRE 2.0 offers several new features: Ground-based power supply that can be connected to a main supply or auxiliary power…
Inspired by Tesla battery pack system
Inspired by Tesla battery pack system, but designed and adapted for UAVs specs – where the battery weight needs to be kept as low as possible. This passive cooling technology relies on the thermodynamics of conduction. Interstitial material help absorbs and disperses heat generated during high-discharge rate. Learn more – http://www.uavfpvbattery.com
COPTRZ Announce Strategic Partnership with Wingtra to Supply Specialist Surveying Drone
COPTRZ, UK and Wingtra, Switzerland have today announced a strategic partnership where COPTRZ will become the primary UK distributor of the Wingra fixed-wing VTOL drone for mapping & surveying. Wingtra’s flagship drone, the ‘WingraOne’ is a specialist fixed-wing UAV capable of surveying vast areas of land with a flight time of up to 55 minutes….
Kalashnikov enters battle of the drones with fleet of commercial and military UAVs
Russia’s largest maker of guns and weapons, Kalashnikov, will be soon manufacture unmanned aircrafts. The company will offer full range of services – from production to maintenance and repair – starting from the summer of 2018. Kalashnikov, known as the maker of one of the most widely-used machine guns of all time, the AK-47, has…
Drone Delivery Canada Flies in Canadian Northern Communities of Moose Factory and Moosonee, Ontario
Drone Delivery Canada ‘DDC or the Company’ (CSE:FLT OTC:TAKOF), is pleased to announce it was granted permission from Transport Canada to test its drone delivery technology in the northern regions of Canada. DDC tested its drone delivery platform in the Moose Factory and Moosonee communities where it completed a series of successful flights comprising of distances of up to 2.12km…
Europe’s drone challenge
This Euronews/Boarding pass episode looks at “The Drone Challenge” posed to European ATM by a rapidly-expanding industry estimated to be worth, in Europe alone, €15 billion by 2025, and generating 150,000 new jobs by 2050. Our expert on Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS), Mike Lissone, says: “the biggest challenge we are facing is on the…
What jobs will flying robots be doing in future?
In the James Cameron blockbuster The Terminator and its follow up sequels, the world was ruled by machines. Flying robots patrolled the skies while land-based vehicles with minds of their own trundled along on the ground below. That future is fast becoming a reality. But thankfully, instead of trying to wipe out humanity, these drones…
NASA Hosts Industry Day for Unmanned Aircraft in National Airspace Collaboration
NASA Aeronautics is heavily involved in developing solutions for safe integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the national airspace. NASA has two UAS projects that work in lock-step with the Federal Aviation Administration to address the challenges facing UAS integration across the full spectrum of aircraft type and sizes, and the environments in which they…
