The Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced that it is promoting use of drones for transportation of famous Lakadong turmeric from Meghalaya to other parts of the country. Continue reading
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
GA-ASI and US Army Test Advanced Datalinks and Avionics Enhancements for Gray Eagle ER
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. successfully tested advanced datalink capability as part of a U.S. Army-funded development effort to upgrade the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range Unmanned Aircraft System . Continue reading
Bell Completes Successful APT Demonstration for Ground-Based Detect-and-Avoid
Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, announced the Autonomous Pod Transport’s (APT) successful demonstration of a ground-based Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) flight, fulfilling an extension for its NASA Systems Integration and Operationalization (SIO) project. Continue reading
Silent Arrow Autonomously Delivers 1,026 Pounds of Cargo in First Overseas Deployment
Silent Arrow has announced that the Air Force of a U.S. allied government in the Middle East has conducted the first overseas deployments of the Silent Arrow GD-2000 cargo delivery drone under a $1.5M operational evaluation contract. Continue reading
Canadian Coast Guard Conducts Offshore Sea Trials of VTOL UAS
Kongsberg Geospatial announced that it successfully conducted sea trials of the Shield AI V-BAT Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) on behalf of the Canadian Coast Guard, operating from a small cargo vessel far offshore in international waters. Continue reading
AFWERX Agility Prime Completes First USAF-Piloted Flight of an eVTOL Aircraft with Partner Kitty Hawk
The AFWERX Agility Prime program took another step forward in December with the first government remotely piloted flight of an electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Continue reading
First Flight for China’s Wing Long 1E MALE UAV
According to pictures published on Chinese social networks, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) has conducted a maiden flight with its new Wing Loong-1E, which is an advanced version of the Wing Loong 1, a Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), developed by the Chinese Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group. Continue reading
Kawasaki Unmanned Cargo System Combines Aircraft with Mobile Wheeled Robot
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has successfully completed proof-of-concept (PoC) testing for an unmanned cargo transport system. The system combines Kawasaki’s K-Racer-X1 prototype unmanned vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft and what is commonly described in the industry as an autonomous mobile robot, and which the company describes as a “delivery robot”. Continue reading