AirMap Partners with Airways New Zealand to Trial the Country’s First Drone Traffic Management System

 AirMap has joined forces with Airways New Zealand to deploy an unmanned traffic management system that enables safe and compliant drone flights for a three-month trial in the Canterbury and Queenstown regions of New Zealand.Drone flights in New Zealand are growing ...

Ocelleye Releases New “UAV Landing Zone” for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

Ocelleye, LLC, a commercial drone operator in North America announced today the release of its UAV Landing Zone for unmanned aerial systems weighing less than twenty-five pounds. The company prides itself for innovative forward thinking and through its own experience operating multi-rotors saw ...

RT LTA To Present The Skystar 180 Aerostat System At Paris Air Show

RT LTA Systems Ltd, a world-class designer, developer, and manufacturer of the SkyStar™ family of aerostats for use in intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and communications applications, will present a complete system of the Skystar 180 at the Paris air show.The Skystar 180 system ...

Swiss-based UAV Pioneer Aeroscout Introduced Their NEW Scout B-330 UAV Helicopter

Aeroscout, a long-term partner of performance leading LiDAR manufacturer RIEGL, is excited to present the Scout B-330 UAV helicopter, which is built with a high payload capacity of up to 50 kg (110 lbs), a very long flight endurance (at least three hours) and the capability of flying at very high ...

EASA Publishes A Proposal To Operate Small Drones In Europe

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) published today a proposal to regulate the operation of small drones in Europe. All interested parties are welcome to comment this proposal from 12 May until 12 August 2017.The proposal provides a framework to safely operate drones while allowing this ...

MMC Spider Completes Over 300,000KM Of Power Line Stringing

Drone technology is relatively new – but the clear success of drone implementation has led to the rapid adoption in the energy industry. Leading commercial drone manufacturer MMC has now completed over 300,000KM of power line stringing across the globe. Tested in the dramatic landscapes of ...

GA-ASI’s Type-Certifiable Predator B Takes Flight

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, and electro-optic and related mission systems solutions, today announced that its Type-Certifiable Predator® B (TCPB) variant completed its first flight test at the ...

ALTI Transition Is Now Also Available As A Hardware Only Version

Today we introduce what we like to call the ALTI BASE systems, offering reduced cost and increased mission and performance flexibility to our clients.Basically, pun intended, the ALTI Transition is now also available as a hardware only version, excluding avionics, communication links or ...