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Ameriflight to Buy 35 VTOL Cargo Drones

Ameriflight to Buy 35 VTOL Cargo Drones

Ameriflight, the nation’s largest Part 135 Cargo airline, announces a signed letter of intent to purchase 35 VTOL air cargo drones from Sabrewing Aircraft Company, Inc., a U.S. corporation designing and producing a new generation of regional cargo UAV that offers high-efficiency, all-weather operation with vertical landing and takeoff (VTOL) capabilities. The agreement is for […]
Spright To Survey Utility Infrastructure

Spright To Survey Utility Infrastructure

Spright has announced that it earned a nationwide, non-geo-specific Certificate of Waiver (CoW) for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations from the FAA. The CoW allows small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) to travel up to four nautical miles for critical utility infrastructure surveys. This waiver puts Spright in a unique position to maximize […]

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Zipline Partners with Rwanda

Zipline Partners with Rwanda

Zipline has announced a new partnership with the Government of Rwanda that aims to complete nearly 2 million instant deliveries and fly more than 200 million autonomous kilometers in Rwanda by 2029. Under the new partnership, Rwanda will triple its delivery volume by adding new delivery sites in rural and urban locations throughout the country, […]
uAvionix SkyLine

uAvionix SkyLine

uAvionix announces an updated product line offering for Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Command and Control (C2).  The SkyLine C2 management platform ecosystem is headlined by muLTElink, an industry-first combination of LTE technology with broadcast radio frequency (RF) radios which permits dynamic selection of the best radio link at any […]

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Skypersonic & NASA

Skypersonic & NASA

Skypersonic, a subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings, Inc. announces today that it recently delivered to NASA the hardware and software for a rover and drone system that the crew members of NASA’s Simulated Mars Missions will use to remotely explore Martian-like terrain around Earth – all from their 1,700-square-foot simulated Martian habitat at the Johnson […]
Matternet Gains FAA Production Certificate

Matternet Gains FAA Production Certificate

Matternet announced that it has been granted a Production Certificate by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its Matternet M2 drone. This follows the announcement earlier this year that the M2 aircraft achieved FAA standard Type Certification, a first of its kind for an unmanned aircraft. The Production Certificate acknowledges that Matternet has established a […]

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Artificial Feathers Help Manueverability

Artificial Feathers Help Manueverability

At the Swiss EPFL Technology Institute, a drone has been equipped with feathers to increase its precision during flight. The bio-inspired device can spread or close its wings while flying, making it easier to maneuver and more resistant in high winds. After carefully observing birds in flight, researchers from the EPFL Laboratory of Intelligent Systems […]
GKN Aerospace’s Hydrogen-Powered Drone

GKN Aerospace’s Hydrogen-Powered Drone

GKN Aerospace has successfully achieved a major milestone delivering a ground-based demonstrator of a liquid hydrogen aircraft fuel system. The demonstrator was designed, built and tested in collaboration with Filton Systems Engineering, under the Innovate UK-funded Safe Flight project. The goal of the project was to investigate the feasibility of using a liquid hydrogen fuel […]

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Fruity Chutes Partners with Matternet

Fruity Chutes Partners with Matternet

Fruity Chutes, the leading and longest-standing provider of parachute recovery systems for UAS, today announced their partnership with Matternet in achieving FAA Type Certification. Fruity Chutes provided essential safety components including shock cords, harnesses and parachutes – namely, the drone-optimized Iris Ultralight parachute. The groundbreaking success marks Fruity Chutes as the first UAS recovery company […]
Greensight’s WeatherHive

Greensight’s WeatherHive

Greensight’s WeatherHive sensing capabilities are highly unique, as there are no known technologies to directly sample the atmosphere over large areas at a reasonable cost. Weather balloons are used extensively to gather critical data used for weather forecasting, but are limited in that they can only capture data along a rising path, are fairly expensive […]
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