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SkyGrid and Wisk Release Paper on Automated Flight Rules for Scalable Urban Air Mobility

 SkyGrid, an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Third-Party Service Provider (TSP), and Wisk Aero, an autonomous aviation company, have released a new white paper, Enabling Scalable Urban Air Mobility Through Automated Flight Rules, outlining how Automated Flight Rules (AFR) can enable the ...

Anji County Doubles AirDock Network Reach for Regionwide Multi-Mission Drone Operations

The Second Phase of the Shared Multi-Mission A2Z AirDock Network Expands Service Range to 965 Square Miles While Broadening Mission Capabilities with New Use Cases. In late 2024, the Anji Bureau of Water Resources, in Anji County outside Shanghai, China, deployed theworld’s first A2Z AirDock ...

Navigating Certification: Essential Steps for UAV and AAM Projects

In the fast-evolving realm of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) projects, achieving certification is paramount for success. A recent Whitepaper by Volz Servos delves into the crucial prerequisites and supplier considerations crucial for obtaining certification and ...

Ahead of Super Bowl LVIII, Drone Incursions at Stadiums Are on the Rise

Dedrone, the leader in smart airspace security, revealed that over 370  major sporting events experienced more than 4,000 illegal drone violations in 2023 across nearly 60 stadiums globally. This is an increase of nearly 20% from 2022 to 2023 and resulted in event delays, the apprehension of ...

Teledyne FLIR SIRAS as a Mission-Critical Law Enforcement Tool 

In law enforcement, seconds can make the difference between life and death. Equipment that cannot be deployed at a moment’s notice can make or break an operation. This was the case on February 16, 2023, when the new Teledyne FLIR SIRAS was pressed into service for a felony search in Texas. A ...

Liquid Neural Networks Empower Drones to Explore Uncharted Territory

In the vast, expansive skies where birds once ruled supreme, a new crop of aviators is taking flight. These pioneers of the air are not living creatures, but rather a product of deliberate innovation: drones. But these aren’t your typical flying bots, humming around like mechanical bees. Rather, ...

Smart Software, Hard Working Hardware, Drones that Dominate

Industry-leading fleet management platform meets specialist avionic hardware solution for powering drones for enterprise As the UAV industry expands, drones are fast becoming an integral part of multiple unrelated industries, leading to legislations evolving to cater for more complex and ...

Aeromapper Talon Amphibious being used for whale research

There are countless growing threats to whales and dolphins in the oceans, that range from pollution, ship strikes, entanglement in fishing gear, climate change among others. Many species remain critically endangered. Ocean Alliance is actively working with the daunting task of acquiring more and ...

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. Currently, we are seeing a significant increase in the number of drones used in these countries because of their higher effici...

How The U.S. Department Of The Interior’s New Drone Policy Hurts America

In its broad mission to effectively manage over 500 million acres of land across the United States and its territories, the Department of the Interior has in recent years turned to drone technology to help get the job done. The DOI’s fleet of 810 civilian drones – only about 20 percent of ...