Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience

New York Port Authority Delivers Future with Cargo Drone Test

One year after the Port Authority launched a new Girl Scout badge to encourage and educate girls in science, technology, engineering and math careers, the agency marked the partnership by sending a box of Raspberry Rally cookies across the Hudson River. In just 15 minutes, the 10-ounce box of cookies traveled from Greenville Yards in Jersey City, N.J., to Brooklyn, N.Y., without crossing a bridge or a tunnel or riding a boat. Continue reading

Airbus & French DGA Test VSR700 at Sea in Full Operational Configuration

Airbus Helicopters and the French Armament General Directorate (DGA) tested the unmanned aerial system (UAS) VSR700 for the first time in an operational configuration from a ship at sea. At the beginning of May, the VSR700 performed 80 fully autonomous take-offs and landings from a civil vessel equipped with a helicopter deck, cruising off the coast of Brittany in the west of France. Continue reading