EHang Holdings Limited announced that it has conducted aerial sightseeing trial flights in Yantai, a coastal city in East China. An EHang 216 took four passengers to the air for aerial sightseeing trips over the sea around the beautiful Fisherman’s Wharf in Yantai city, one of the many AAAA national tourist attraction locations throughout China. Continue reading
Flirtey Granted New Patent for Safety of Drone Delivery
Flirtey Eagle
Flirtey has announced that it has been granted a new patent critical to the safety of drone delivery. This granted patent describes safety-enhancing technologies such as landing a drone safely in the event of failure by using a parachute and steering the drone towards a safe location. Continue reading
Hybrid Drones Open New Opportunities for Farmers
Drone spraying has been widely used in Southeast Asian countries such as China and Japan with great results. Now the trend is spreading to the US and Europe as well. Continue reading
Caltech Drones Swarm in Restricted Space
Engineers at Caltech have designed a new data-driven method to control the movement of multiple robots through cluttered, unmapped spaces, so they do not run into one another. Continue reading
Iran Rebuilds Downed US Navy Global Hawk
Information about the U.S. Navy’s RQ-4A Global Hawk shot down by Iran on June 20, 2019, continues to surface a year on. The carcass of the aircraft has been largely pieced together by Iran, in the manner of an air accident investigation. The way it was done, and the reasons, are likely to be very different, however. Continue reading
Royal Australian Navy Conducts S-100 Camcopter Trials
S-100 Camcopter being recovered on HMAS Ballarat’s flight deck
The Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) Anzac Class frigate, HMAS Ballarat, and a Schiebel S-100 Camcopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) have conducted flight trials. Continue reading
Drone Irrigation Technology in Africa
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Nathan Zecks Mazvazva, a 25-year-old farmer in Zimbabwe, stands in his sugarcane field, marveling at a recent savings of 60% on irrigation costs. Continue reading
FLIR Systems Hadron – First Thermal and Visible Sensor Module for Drones
FLIR Systems, Inc. has announced the FLIR Hadron, the industry’s first dual sensor module for drone, robotic, and imaging original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Continue reading