10 hour+ multirotor UAV flight using Intelligent Energy Fuel Cell Power Module

South Korean liquid hydrogen specialist MetaVista has demonstrated a record breaking 10 hour and 50 minute multi-copter test flight using an Intelligent Energy Fuel Cell Power Module. The flight was conducted using the Loughborough-based fuel cell engineering Company’s lightweight ...

Yuneec Expands H520 Line With Precise RTK Satellite Navigation

Yuneec International, a global leader in electric aviation, today announced that its commercial hexacopter, the H520, will now optionally be available with an RTK (Real Time Kinematic) system from the Swiss company Fixposition. Even under difficult GPS conditions, such as in cities or canyons, ...

Vertical Flight Society Announces Surge in Membership

The Vertical Flight Society, the world’s leading non-profit organization working to advance vertical flight, announces today that it has experienced strong growth in all its membership categories, thanks to the unprecedented global investment in advanced new military and civil vertical takeoff ...

DDC Receives Approvals To Start Testing Its 50 LBS Cargo Delivery Drone – The Falcon

Drone Delivery Canada, is pleased to announce that it has commenced testing its newest cargo delivery drone, ‘The Falcon’ with a lifting capability of 50 pounds of payload and a travel range of 60km. “In response to market demand driven by the burgeoning e-commerce industry, our ...

Airobotics Continues Hyper-Growth Trajectory, Announces Integration of LiDAR into Drones

Leading automated drone startup Airobotics today announced record growth in 2018 and an expansion of its executive team in its new global headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, following a recent successful Series D funding round. Airobotics, the only commercial drone solution worldw...

Pipistrel And Honeywell Will Collaborate On Autonomous VTOL Technologies

Honeywell  and Pipistrel have signed a memorandum of understanding that will bring both companies together to explore and develop solutions for the urban air mobility market. The companies will integrate Honeywell avionics, navigation, flight control systems, connectivity and other beneficial ...

Avi Reichental Unanimously Re-elected As Executive Chairman Of Apollo Robotics

Apollo Robotics, a leading provider of affordable autonomous drone solutions for land surveys, today announced the re-election of Avi Reichental as its Executive Chairman. This on the heels of the successful launch at CES 2019 of the Apollo Surveyor, a fully automated, autonomous professional ...

Deveron Signs $3.8 Million Multi-Year Agreement with A & L Laboratories

Deveron UAS Corp. is pleased to announce it has entered into a service agreement with A & L Canada Laboratories Inc.  in which A & L will engage Deveron to administer, manage and execute A & L’s soil sampling collection business.  The initial term of the agreement is for 5 years ...

Airborne Response Supports U.S. Army National Guard, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue with Drones and Aerostats

Airborne Response, the South Florida-based provider of Mission Critical Unmanned Solutions™ for industry and government, completed Exercise Lightning Shield – a full-scale training exercise held on Thursday, January 24 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.   Airborne Response provided aerial ...