Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience

Regulators Approve Brazil’s First BVLOS Drone Delivery Operation

Speedbird Aero team with ANAC officials after successful live parachute deployment

Latin American drone delivery company, Speedbird Aero, announced it has received regulatory approval from Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency, also known as ANAC, to operate two experimental drone delivery routes in Brazil. Speedbird Aero operates a proprietary delivery drone with an integrated ParaZero parachute recovery system, and is now the first company in Latin America to win regulatory approval for a drone delivery operation. Continue reading →

Martin UAV V-BAT to be Evaluated During Operational Coast Guard Patrol

Martin UAV, in collaboration with the Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC), began a contractor-owned, contractor-operated deployment on-board a Coast Guard cutter in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility on Aug. 13-14, 2020. Continue reading →

Airbus Acubed Project Wayfinder Flight Test Lab

Kicked off in 2018, Acubed’s Project Wayfinder is laser-focused on developing core technologies for autonomous flight systems for the next—or fifth—generation of aircraft. The transition from automated to autonomous flight will enable another significant increase in safety, shifting the workload of pilots by providing them tools to better understand their environment and improving their ability to make crucial decisions. Continue reading →

Russia’s Su-27 Stealth Fighter: Now Remote-Controlled ?

The combat capabilities of Russia’s Su-57 fifth-generation fighter have been compared to the United States Air Force’s F-22 Raptor. The Russian aircraft’s speed and armament could allow it to respond quickly to potential threats—and if necessary back out just as quickly from fights it cannot win. But now the Su-57 could have another advantage: a remotely piloted mode that could enable the advanced fighter to be operated safely away from potentially hostile skies.  Continue reading →

Schiebel and Nordic Unmanned Conduct World’s First Full-Scale Offshore UAV Flight for Equinor

Schiebel, together with partner Nordic Unmanned, successfully demonstrated to Norwegian energy company Equinor the cargo delivery capability of its Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) CAMCOPTER S-100 to offshore platform Troll A. Continue reading →

Reliable Robotics Makes First Flights of Autonomous Passenger Airplanes Over Populated Regions

Reliable Robotics announced that it has achieved historic firsts for global commercial aviation by completing successful test flights of remote-piloted passenger airplanes in United States airspace. Continue reading →

SF Holdings Test Flies Plane-Size Cargo Drone at Inner Mongolia Airport

At 8 am on August 21, a large drone took off from Ningxia and arrived at the destination airport in Inner Mongolia nearly an hour later. This marks that SF Group’s large-scale UAV has achieved a complete success for its first cargo flight based on business scenarios. This is also the first time that large UAVs have been used in logistics scenarios in China.

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Dynetics Flies Second X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle

Dynetics, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, successfully tested a second X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicle (GAV), as well as the Gremlins airborne recovery system, last month at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Continue reading →