Micro-Avionix has developed an ADS-B suitable for UAVs of all sizes to improve flying safety for all. The ping™ is the world’s first family of ultralight weight, low cost, ADS-B transponders. Continue reading
Why Scientists Are Banking on Drones for Tracking Coastal Climate Research
Drones are not new, nor are climate scientists only now discovering their utility as research tools. “Back in 1998, we used what was considered a smaller UAV at that time” for studying ice cover in the Arctic, says James Maslanik, a research professor emeritus from the aerospace engineering sciences department at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
UK Government Criticises Amazon on Drone Safety
A U.K. government official has criticised Amazon Inc. for not providing guidance about the safe operation of drones to customers who purchase such products from the retailer. Continue reading
US Army uses Iron Dome to Down Drone
Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system successfully intercepted an unmanned drone in the United States last week, in the battery’s first-ever trial on foreign soil.
Aircraft Carrier Gets UAS Command Centre
The San Diego-ported Carl Vinson last week became the first aircraft carrier in the U.S. fleet to install an unmanned aerial vehicle command centre, the US Navy says. Continue reading
NASA Success for Complex Drone Traffic Management Test at FAA Test Sites
San Francisco Bay Area reporters interview NASA researchers and observe the FAA test sites fly 24 drones to test air traffic management platform at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California
In the first and largest demonstration of its kind, NASA and operators from the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test sites across the country flew 22 drones simultaneously to assess rural operations of NASA’s UAS traffic management (UTM) research platform. Continue reading
The Founding Fathers of DJI
The photo above was shot in Shenzhen, Lotus Hill Peak and on it are young and enthusiastic founders of DJI. DJI’s initial entrepreneurial team – from right to left: Wang Frank, Chen Jinying, Lu Zhihui and Chen Chuqiang – were essential for the initial two-year existence of DJI. Continue reading
FAA Enables Section 333 UAS Registration Online
What’s not to like about an automated government system that’s faster, simpler and more user-friendly than the paper-based system it supplements? Continue reading