Rolls-Royce engines have been selected by Boeing to power the US Navy’s new MQ-25 Stingray aircraft, which will provide unmanned, carrier-based air-to-air refuelling. Continue reading
DJI Phantom Crashes Inspecting Sinking Millennium Tower in San Francisco
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
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
11th Unmanned Systems Canada Student UAS Competition
Unmanned Systems Canada has just announced details of its11th Unmanned Systems Canada Student UAS Competition in 2018-2019.
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
USAF RQ-4 Global Hawk Crashed Off Spain Last June
An RQ-4 Global Hawk crashed into the waters off Spain on June 26th, 2018. The incident has not been previously disclosed to the public prior to inquiries by The Drive. 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
SkyX Raises $9.5M USD in Series B Funding
Mark Mandelbaum of Almond Tree Enterprises Inc. (L), with SkyX’s Didi Horn and Clanton Capital President Noam Edell (R)
SkyX, the Canadian long-range unmanned aerial monitoring and data collection company, has announced that the company has closed $9.5 million USD in Series B funding from the Almond Tree/SkyX Limited Partnership (LP), led by Almond Tree Enterprise Inc. This second round of financing brings SkyX’s total funding to date to $15.8 million USD ($20 million CAD) and comes just two-and-a-half years after the company was founded. Continue reading