The aerial inspection of a cracked window at San Francisco’s tilting Millennium Tower came to a crashing halt when the drone dropped from the sky, nearly missing pedestrians below. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
UAV Navigation Integrates FCS in Record Time
UAV Navigation has just released a case study demonstrating its ability to is able to deliver a cutting-edge Flight Control Solution (FCS) in the shortest period of time. Continue reading
Oxford Town Council Launches Commercial Drone Services
Oxford Direct Services (ODS), the service delivery and commercial arm of Oxford City Council in the UK ,has announced that it is to start providing drone-based services to include roof and building surveying, land mapping, aerial photography and filming. Continue reading
EagleView Invests in PrecisionHawk
PrecisionHawk Inc., a provider of drone technology for the enterprise, has announced a partnership with EagleView, a provider of aerial imagery and data analytics for government, insurance and commercial sectors. Through this partnership with PrecisionHawk, EagleView will collect at-scale insurance claims imagery via drones by leveraging PrecisionHawk’s global network of drone pilots, Droners.io. Continue reading
DroneInsurance.com and AirMap Partner on Drone Insurance
REIN‘s DroneInsurance.com, a digital drone insurance portal, is announcing its collaboration with AirMap, a leading drone airspace management platform. The relationship allows drone operators to seamlessly access DroneInsurance.com’s offerings within AirMap for Drones, AirMap’s iOS and Android applications, providing a streamlined option to add insurance coverage as part of AirMap’s pre-flight planning workflow. Continue reading
Grand Forks Golf Course Pioneers Food Delivery by UAS
Golfers at the pristine King’s Walk golf course in Grand Forks will soon have the choice of ordering food and beverages and having it delivered via drone on the golf course. Flytrex, an Israeli drone logistics company, announced a partnership Wednesday, Sept. 5, with King’s Walk and Ease Drones to begin a four-to-six-week trial of the food delivery system, which is anticipated to debut Saturday, September 15.
AeroVironment Partners with DroneInsurance.com to Offer Commercial Drone Insurance Solutions
REIN‘s DroneInsurance.com, a digital drone insurance portal, has announced its collaboration with AeroVironment to offer insurance coverage options for the Quantix commercial drone platform. Continue reading
Bell Team Selected for NASA UAS Demo in 2020
Bell’s Autonomous Pod Transport 70 utilizes a tail-sitting electric vertical take-off and landing configuration that is capable of rotation and translation in flight
Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, has announced a cooperative agreement with NASA for an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) flight demonstration in the National Airspace System (NAS) expected to be conducted in 2020.