Flirtey, a drone delivery service, and REMSA, a community-integrated emergency medical services provider, have announced a partnership to launch the first automated external defibrillator (AED) drone delivery service in the United States. Continue reading
Alibaba’s Drones Deliver Packages to Islands
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced that it has used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, to deliver packages over water for the first time. Continue reading
LiquidPiston Wins AUVSI Unmanned Startup Competition
LiquidPiston CEO Alex Shkolnik accepts his company’s award from AUVSI Executive Vice President Heather Lee. Photo: AUVSI
LiquidPiston, a company that has designed a revolutionary new rotary engine, took home the top prize at AUVSI’s NOVUS Unmanned conference and competition in San Francisco. Continue reading
Massive RC Model Super Constellation ‘Star of America’
Keith Mitchell’s 1/6 scale super constellation “Star of America”. This model has had 12 flights before this flight which is the first time she has ever flown in front of the paying public – the wind was gusting 20+ mph (safe to fly in) but very uncomfortable for the pilot to battle for ten mins. Continue reading
Anti-Drone Technology for Ohio Prisons
Ohio prison authorities are considering the use of anti-drone technology to keep small remote-controlled aircraft from being used to deliver drugs and other contraband to inmates.
Phase Two of New York UTM Corridor
The Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research (NUAIR) Alliance has announced the opening of the evaluation and selection process of vendor(s) for the design and installation of Phase II of its Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) test corridor. Continue reading
AT&T’s Flying COW Connects Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico, we’ve deployed our helicopter Flying COW (Cell on Wings) for the first time ever. Continue reading
Kespry Updates Aerial Intelligence Platform
Kespry, an aerial intelligence platform provider, has announced the availability of a suite of capabilities that extends the value of aerial intelligence to the full life cycle of planning, bidding and managing earthworks projects in the major site construction industry. Continue reading