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New Battery Configuration Allows 2-Hour Flights

California-based startup Impossible Aerospace says that their new battery configuration can allow drones to fly for two hours! The company says it simply rethought the way drones are designed and built and notes that its first drone, which is about the size of a DJI Phantom, can last up to two hours in the air, […]

Flirtey Drones Deliver Defibrillators

Flirtey joined forces last year with the City of Reno and partners such as AirMap and Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority to apply for fast-track designation under the FAA and Department of Transportation’s federal drone testing initiative. The Flirtey group was one of 10 applicants from across the country selected in the highly competitive pilot program, […]

Huge Ukranian Smuggler Drone

Here’s a drone on steroids! Ukranian border guards heard and investigated this multirotor’s admittedly loud flight and found it stuck in a tree on the outskirts of the village of Gorbivsti, about a kilometer of a mile from the border. What was it doing there? Likely smuggling tobacco products, narcotics, or even weapons. Considering the […]

Drone Crashes During Inspection

This frightening video shows a drone crashing to the sidewalk — narrowly missing pedestrians — during an aerial inspection of a cracked window at San Francisco’s tilting Millennium Tower. Building managers were conducting the aerial survey of the structure while KPIX 5 cameras were rolling. The Millennium Tower’s homeowners association hired a drone pilot to take photos of […]

Drone Swarms Sniff Out Toxic Air

The team calls itself Skynet — yes, they’re aware of “The Terminator” — and spent weeks building and testing drones customized to carry sensors, and then writing the massive amount of code to run them. They are most proud of their APIs, or application programming interfaces, which will let users customize the drones to meet their […]

Lockheed Martin’s Racing Drone Challenge

Lockheed Martin has launched the AlphaPilot AI Drone Innovation Challenge to create a racing drone that’s faster, smarter, and doesn’t need a human pilot! “Put that computing power at the edge, and do it in such a way that it can beat those human pilots who trained months or years to get to that level,” […]

Drones Need Remote IDs

“Drones are going to do for aviation what the internet did for information,” acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell said yesterday and called on the industry to work with the FAA to fully integrate them into the National Airspace System. Giving the keynote address at the InterDrone conference in Las Vegas, Elwell said it is up to industry to […]

RotorDrone’s At InterDrone

We’re at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas this week for the drone event we’ve waited all year for: InterDrone! Shown here is our publisher Yvonne DeFrancesco. If you’re at the show, please stop by our booth (827) and pick up the latest issue!

Drone Ambulance Nets $20K Prize

Vincenco Navanteri’s idea for a “drone ambulance” has won a $20,000 grant at the second FAI International Drones Conference and Expo in Lausanne, Switzerland. He won the grant to help him and his team develop their idea of a self-piloting drone ambulance that could carry a single person for up to 150km at 110km/h. […]

Illinois Takes Over Drone Regs

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a law that puts the state in charge of regulating drones, overriding municipal regulations in towns that had them. Rauner signed Senate Bill 3291 Friday making the state the regulator of drones, also known as unmanned aircraft. The law, effective immediately, says “the regulation of an unmanned aircraft system is […]