On Thursday, 1,600 people in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View lost their electricity when a white-haired white man driving a white car flew a (white?) drone into a high-voltage wire. Continue reading
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QinetiQ to Host UAS Challenge 2017 at Snowdonia Aerospace Centre
QinetiQ will provide Snowdonia Aerospace Centre as the venue for this year’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Challenge, organised by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). Continue reading
Delair-Tech Chosen as Accredited Supplier to French Government Agencies
Delair-Tech has announced that its DT18 and DT26X drones have been selected as the official choice for French government agencies purchasing fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. Continue reading
South Korea Finds Suspected North Korean Spy Drone Near DMZ
South Korea discovered a suspected North Korean drone on a mountain near its shared border Friday, according to the military, that believes the device was conducting reconnaissance. Continue reading
App Turns Drones into Advanced Search-and-Rescue Platforms
Matthew Kelly and Oisin McGrath from DroneSAR, DJI’s director of Education Romeo Durscher and DroneSAR’s Gearoid O Briain
Ireland’s Donegal-based DroneSAR, has developed unique software that it claims will revolutionise the worldwide search and rescue industry. Continue reading
Aquatic Fixed-Wing Drone from Canada
The University of Sherbrooke in Canada has gotten creative, and come up with a very clever design for a fixed wing drone called SUWAVE (Sherbrooke University Water-Air VEhicle) that uses lakes as landing pads. It crash lands in them, recharges with solar power, and then takes off again with a brilliant hinged propeller. Continue reading
SimActive Software for Precision Viticulture
SimActive Inc., a developer of photogrammetry software, has announced that Noveltis, a French company, has been using its Correlator3D software for precision viticulture. Based on multispectral drone imagery, mapping products are generated to determine vine health and detect missing plants. Continue reading
Delair-Tech Sets A New UAS BVLOS Distance Record
On June 8 at 11:00 a.m., RTE and Delair-Tech set a new distance record when they flew a civilian drone 30 miles (50 kilometers). The official purpose of the flight, which took place in France, was to inspect by remote camera RTE’s power lines as well as recording data that would allow it to build models of its European power grid.