Martin UAV V-BAT Selected As The First-Ever VTOL UAS To Be Evaluated During An Operational Coast Guard Patrol

Martin UAV, in collaboration with the Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC), began a contractor-owned, contractor-operated deployment on-board a Coast Guard cutter in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility on Aug. 13-14, 2020.The project, which is utilizing the Martin UAV V-BAT, ...

Shell and Baker Hughes Venture Going Big on Methane-Hunting Drones

Shell said this week that in July it inked a deal with Baker Hughes’ drone venture company, Avitas, to expand drone-monitoring services at its unconventional assets in the Permian Basin. Shell is one of the fastest adopters of drone platforms which are still considered an emerging technology by ...

Pipistrel Begins To Accept Orders For Nuuva Series Of Cargo eVTOL Aircraft

Pipistrel, the pioneer of Type Certified electric aviation, is presenting the Nuuva V300 as the flagship model of the Nuuva series of unmanned air vehicles (UAV). This one‑of‑a‑kind aircraft embodies our vision to disrupt aerial cargo transportation by commercializing the use of electrical ...

Regulators Approve Brazil’s First Drone Delivery Operation to Company Using ParaZero Safety System

Latin American drone delivery company, Speedbird Aero, announced it has received regulatory approval from Brazil's National Civil Aviation Agency, also known as ANAC, to operate two experimental drone delivery routes in Brazil. Speedbird Aero operates a proprietary delivery drone ...