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A new video released on platform X has unveiled a Soviet-era Yak-52 training aircraft used by Ukrainian forces, featuring victory markings on its fuselage. These marks symbolize the aircraft’s growing and effective role as a drone hunter. Continue reading
Thales is currently developing the UAS100 drone system designed to perform long-range inspection, surveillance and alert missions for industrial, civil and homeland security users. The ScaleFlyt avionics solutions contributed to the safety of a full drone system which recently received the first full Design Verification Report for drone operations to be granted by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), a key step on the path towards certification of the UAS100. Continue reading
A drone show has been held at Glastonbury Festival to mark the start of the event. Drone art show company, Celestial, created an immersive light display in the sky depicting the Tor, some of the festival’s most iconic artwork, and the Glastonbury sign in its signature font. Continue reading
The public debut of the Boeing F-15QA Advanced Eagle demonstration on Saturday at the Spirit of St. Louis Airshow in Chesterfield, MO. This amazing aircraft performed while carrying 12 air to air missiles. Continue reading
Skyports Infrastructure (Skyports), a provider of vertiport infrastructure for the advanced air mobility (AAM) industry, has announced it has entered a partnership with Jeju Air Co., Korea’s number one low-cost airline, to support the deployment of vertiports for air taxi operations in Korea. Continue reading
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced on 24 June 2024, that the Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration (Shepard) programme aircraft received its official designation, XRQ-73. Continue reading
Primoco UAV SE and T-Mobile Czech Republic have verified the possibility of integrating an LTE network BTS base station into the Primoco UAV One 150 unmanned aerial vehicle. The result is an advanced system that allows a substantial reduction in mobile network recovery time in emergency situations, applicable across the EU. Continue reading
With a view to testing the use of drones in offshore wind farms, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) will be using a geo-zone at the National Experimental Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems in June 2024 to expand drone operations in the open category. Continue reading