The Interior Department authorized officials to buy drones from a Chinese manufacturer that experts in government and industry view as a national security threat. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Wing Launches OpenSky Safety App for Australian Drone Operators
Drone delivery service Project Wing (or just Wing as it’s now called) recently won governmental approval to operate in the suburbs outside the Australian capital, Canberra. There, its service delivers food, coffee, pet supplies and more to area residents. Related to these efforts, Wing this week launched a new app for drone flyers, OpenSky, to help them find safe places and times to fly their drones or drone fleets. Continue reading
NOAA Wants Hybrid Drones to Patrol the Coast
FireFly6 Pro
The federal agency in charge of monitoring the environment wants a new drone that can take off and land on a single spot while still achieving high speeds in flight. Continue reading
Delair Announces Subscription Program in Europe
Delair, a supplier of commercial drone solutions, has announced Delair Takeoff, a cost-effective subscription program for accessing the company’s high performance Delair UX11 family of UAVs and its delair.ai, cloud-based data management solution. Continue reading
Singapore Men Charged for Flying Drones Near Airbase
Tay Miow Seng, 40, and Ed Chen Junyuan, 37, are the first two individuals in Singapore to be charged for flying drones without a permit near an airbase
Two men were charged on Friday (Jul 5) over flying drones without a permit near an airbase in what is the first prosecution of its kind in Singapore.
251 Drones Held at Entebbe Airport, Uganda
The Uganda Civil Aviation Authority, UCC and Customs officials during the sensitization workshop on Drones at Mestil Hotel in Kampala on July 3, 2019
At least 251 drones are held at Entebbe International Airport, pending clearance.nThe Ag. manager Customs, URA, Entebbe Airport Armstrong Turyakira says, 442 drones were brought into the country in the 2018/19 financial year and only 191 were registered.
New App Aims to Automate Drones for Good
Researchers at Cranfield University have developed a smartphone app which can connect with off-the-shelf drones and send them to autonomously inspect multiple locations using coordinates received by SMS text message. Continue reading
Singapore Company Fined for Operating Drone without Permit
Goh Leong Kiat is a company representative of LT Sambo
A company that operated a drone in Singapore without the required permit was fined S$9,000 on Monday (Jul 8) in the first prosecution of its kind. Continue reading