Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS

NASA, Uber to Explore Safety, Efficiency of Future Urban Airspace

An artist’s conception of a future where different aircraft – vertical takeoff, traditional takeoff, crewed, uncrewed – safely perform a variety of daily missions in rural to urban environments. Credits: NASA/Advanced Concepts Laboratory

NASA has signed a second space act agreement with Uber Technologies, Inc., to further explore concepts and technologies related to urban air mobility (UAM) to ensure a safe and efficient system for future air transportation in populated areas.   Continue reading

JetLease Signs MoU with FLYING-CAM

L-R: Tom Rothrauff, President of the Trident Group, David Willems, Business Development Director for UMS SKELDAR, Katy Glynn, Vice President of JetLease, Emmanuel Previnaire, Founder and CEO of FLYING-CAM

The world’s largest private leasing company, JetLease, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with FLYING-CAM, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) specialist and provider of aerial cinematography for blockbuster movies including James Bond, Harry Potter and Mission Impossible, to deliver a unique portfolio of leasing solutions to FLYING-CAM’s global customer base. Continue reading

Insitu Launches Commercial ScanEagle 3


The ScanEagle 3 is a simultaneous multi-mission capable commercial variant of ScanEagle/Integrator military UAS. Being a commercial variant, the UAS is not covered by U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), allowing accelerated global acquisition by customers. Continue reading

Five Companies Share AUVSI XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award

Five organizations that flew drones on critical, life-saving missions are winners of the inaugural XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award by the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI). The award was presented on Thursday May 3rd at the AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2018 conference at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

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