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California-based JetPack Aviation announced that it has completed flight testing with the first prototype – P1 – of its Speeder jet powered, VTOL mobility platform. Trials concluded successfully in May. Flight testing began in December 2020, with two-axis tethers securing the platform, progressing through a single-axis tether and culminating in the aircraft flying with just a safety tether connection. Continue reading
The Pentagon-developed camera drones are more expensive and less capable than the Chinese-made ones that they were supposed to replace, according to an internal US government memorandum seen by the Financial Times. Continue reading
Researchers from TU Delft (the Netherlands), University of Barcelona, and Harvard University have now developed the first swarm of tiny — and hence very safe — drones that can autonomously detect and localize gas sources in cluttered indoor environments. Continue reading
Nordic Unmanned has signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the shares the leading German drone developer and manufacturer AirRobot. Continue reading
In presence of the main MALE RPAS industrial partners (Leonardo S.p.a, Airbus Defence & Space SAU and Dassault Aviation), the OCCAR-EA Director and a senior representative from Airbus Defence & Space GmbH (coordinating company) signed the Grant Agreement to allow European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) funding from the European Union to partially finance the MEDIUM ALTITUDE LONG ENDURANCE REMOTELY PILOTED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM (MALE RPAS) programme (aka EURODRONE). Continue reading
Baykar Defence has been teasing its new Combat Unmanned Aircraft System (MIUS) which it will reveal on July 20, 2021. A new unmanned aerial vehicle design is included in the post on Baykar Defense’s Twitter account with the words “Holiday gift is loading, wait for 20 July…”. Continue reading
Cyberhawk, a global provider of drone-based inspections and creator of iHawk, a cloud-based asset visualization software platform, has launched more than 22,000 drone flights to inspect nearly 25,000 electric utility structures in the Western U.S. through the first six months of 2021 as part of utilities critical wildfire prevention and reliability campaigns. Continue reading
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. and Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory Ltd. announced the success of a demonstration test using a made-in-Japan flying drone to inspect the hold of an MOL-operated coal carrier in May. Continue reading