Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience

Skyports Trials Medical Deliveries in Shetland Islands

Vital medical supplies are to be flown by drone between Oban and Mull in a week-long trial due to start on May 25, it has been revealed. Skyports, a drone delivery service based in London, has linked up with the council-run Oban Airport to get NHS kit from the hospital in Oban to the one at Craignure. Continue reading →

Primoco UAV Model One 150 Flies 15 Hours Non-Stop

Primoco UAV recently demonstrated the successful completion of a 15 hour and three-minute continuous unmanned flight. Utilizing Sagetech Avionics‘ transponders integrated with UAV Navigation‘s Vector autopilot, The Primoco Model One 150 beat the previous company record of 12 hours, eight minutes. Continue reading →

Sabrewing Cargo Drone Rises to US Air Force Challenge

Named after an old-English word for a type of dragon, the Rhaegal-A won’t be making its mark by burninating the countryside. Instead the electric cargo drone capable of taking off and landing like a helicopter was in the spotlight during a U.S. Air Force conference about “flying car” technologies. Continue reading →

Swift UAS Teams Demo SAR in Japan

Teams from Swift Tactical Systems, in partnership with its Japanese counterpart, Swift-Xi, both subsidiaries of Swift Engineering, completed personnel search and rescue and animal identification missions as part of a contract with Okayama Prefecture in Japan. Continue reading →

Defibrillator by BVLoS Drone Trial in Wales

Immediately before lockdown, a team from Snowdonia Aerospace, with partners SwiftFlight Avionics, University of Manchester and the Welsh Ambulance Service, completed a successful flight demo that showed proof-of-concept for beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) delivery of a defibrillator by drone to a remote, rural location that would be difficult to reach with an ambulance in a timely fashion. Continue reading →

Drone Delivery Canada to Start Commercial Testing of Heavy-Lift, Long-Range Cargo Delivery Drone

Condor

Drone Delivery Canada Corp. has announced that it will begin the commercial testing of the Condor. The Condor has a lifting capability of 180 kgs (400 lbs) of payload, a travel range of 200 kms and an operating speed of 120kph.  The multi-package payload compartment is designed to carry approximately 20 cubic feet of cargo. Continue reading →