Japan’s first investment fund focusing on drone-related startups begins operation in June, offering financial assistance and business management advice for budding entrepreneurs. Continue reading
Environmentalists in Airborne Crusade Against Strip Mining
Environmentalists have turned a hobbyist drone into a weapon in their long, bitter battle against strip mining. Junior Walk of Coal River Mountain Watch has recorded hours of aerial footage of mountaintop-removal coal mining and the massive Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment in southwest West Virginia — reconnaissance his group couldn’t afford if it had to hire a pilot and plane. Continue reading
Urban Aeronautics Partners with Certification Center Canada for Full FAA Type Certification
On May 23rd 2017, following a successful visit by the Quebec economic delegation to Israel, Urban Aeronautics and Certification Center Canada (3C) signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the presence of the Honourable Phillip Couillard, Premier of Quebec, and the Honorable Dominique Anglade, Quebec’s Minister of Economy, Science and Innovation, to explore opportunities for Fancraft for the Canadian market. Continue reading
Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle Destroyed ICBM Launched from Pacific Ocean
A Raytheon Company upgraded Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle, or EKV, a kinetic-force weapon that slams into its targets, destroyed an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time during a Missile Defense Agency test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system. Continue reading
Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Omnicopter
The Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control (IDSC), ETH Zurich, Switzerland has developed a computationally efficient trajectory generator for six degrees-of-freedom multi-rotor vehicles, i.e. vehicles that can independently control their position and attitude. Continue reading
Deveron Gets Approval to Operate UAS Across Canada
Deveron UAS Corp. has announced that it has been granted approval as a Compliant Operator under its Special Flight Operations Certificate (“SFOC“) for the operation of a small unmanned airborne vehicle system within visual line-of-sight, issued under the authority of the Minister, Transport Canada, pursuant to the Aeronautics Act. Continue reading
Delair-Tech to Perform Test Flights in Nevada
Delair America Inc, a Delair-Tech company, has announced that the company has reached an agreement with the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS USA) to perform a series of test flights at the Nevada Test Site in Reno by the end of May 2017. Continue reading
Taiwan’s Surveillance Drone Still in Pilot Project Phase
Military officials announced Tengyun (騰雲機), a heavy drone designed for surveillance purposes, developed by Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology’s (CIST) was still in the pilot project phase, and was uncertain of the date of for the project’s completion. Continue reading