During last year CATUAV had been designing, manufacturing and testing a new drone concept for a novel application: pulling banners. Traditional sky ads pulled with light manned aircraft have the high operating costs associated to any certified manned airplane.
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
AgEagle Enters Commercial Drone Delivery Market
AgEagle Aerial Systems, Inc., a provider of advanced aerial imagery and data collection and analytics solutions for the sustainable agriculture, precision farming and urban green management markets, has begun to actively pursue expansion opportunities within the emerging Drone Logistics and Transportation market – a market forecasted to grow to $29 billion in the next eight years. Continue reading
HEISHA Launches Auto Charging Hybrid VTOL UAV
HEISHA has recently launched the new unattended system. D.NEST F300, combined the auto-charging station C300 with VTOL fixed wing is available for sale. It can be used for farm/pasture/privacy land inspection anytime, anywhere. Continue reading
Volocopter Integrates into ATM System in Helsinki
Om August 30, Volocopter performed a flight at the Helsinki International Airport successfully integrated into both the Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) system. Continue reading
High-Tech Pollination Program Begins in North Dakota
David Lyall, Paul Snyder and Kate Lyall are working together to track honey bee movements in sunflower fields
Bee boxes sit to the west of Clark Coleman’s sunflower field north of Bismarck. Honey bees play a vital role in pollinating sunflowers, helping increase yield and quality. But up until now, the bees have been placed nearby and farmers hope for the best. “Bees pollinate, but they don’t know where,” explains Kate Lyall, who owns and operates Australian agriculture technology company Bee Innovative with her husband, David. Continue reading
Trumbull to Scale ExxonMobil Drone Inspections
The Baton Rouge ExxonMobil complex
Houston-based, Trumbull has supported ExxonMobil since 2014 and was one of the first US companies approved for operations. Recently awarded a 5-year Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Agreement, Trumbull will expand drone data collection and inspections as part of a new contract. Continue reading
GA-ASI Receives FAA No-Chase COA for Unmanned Flights in North Dakota
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has received a Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations by utilizing a Ground-based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA) system. The GBSAA system provides an alternative to using a more costly and operationally restrictive chase aircraft. Continue reading
First Autonomous Flight for Bell Autonomous Pod Transport
Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. company, has announced the successful first autonomous flight of the Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) 70 at its testing site near Fort Worth. Bell plans to continue to test the vehicle under an experimental type certificate throughout the remainder of the year.