By Neil Gallacher Plans to test drones at Newquay Airport are being opposed by the government, according to a leaked briefing note. The note from the Cornish airport warns that Department for Transport (DfT) officials feel Newquay would be unable…
By Lee Bell BARCELONA: It’s only a matter time before a drone such as the one that crashed outside the White House will fall out of the sky and kill someone. This is the stark warning issued by theInstitute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IEEE)…
Today LightWare Optoelectronics released the SF30/B obstacle detection LRF that updates at an astonishing 36633 readings per second and has a range of 50m in all lighting conditions. The introductory price of the SF30/B is just US$350. The SF30/B is…
By The Early Edition, CBC News A group of students at Simon Fraser University has built a drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), with parts made by a 3D printer. “Drones in general will be the next up and coming industry, and…
Written by Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno Pacific Daily News A new drone that can stay in the air for 24 hours will be deployed to Andersen Air Force Base in 2017. The Guam deployment of the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft was…
By: Art Garcia for The Telegraph Seen any drones flying overhead lately? Not likely, despite media headlines predicting drones will spark a revolution in commercial aviation in the United States. Before that can happen, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must complete…
By Adam Justice Shoemaker Crocs showed off a possible future alternative to heading out to its store as it experimented with helicopter drones as a delivery option at a pop-up store on 5 March. Shoppers were able to select a pair…
Frances Perraudin The drone industry could create 150,000 jobs across the European Union by 2050, but it would take “just one disastrous accident” to destroy public confidence and set the sector back, a group of peers has warned. A report…
WRITTEN BY Cassie Werber There could be as many as 150,000 drone jobs in Europe by the year 2050, says a report out today from the EU Committee of Britain’s House of Lords. Those jobs include piloting as well as manufacturing and…
Illinois Institute of Technology and ComEd have partnered on a project to use unmanned aircraft system (UAS), or drone technology, to inspect ComEd’s utility lines. The UAS’s will be used on a trial basis to inspect and assess conditions of…
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center (LSUASC) is planning test flights the week of March 2-6 with a company that has a ground-based sense-and-avoid technology designed to identify small UAS above a…
Tatyana Rusakova, RIR Kalashnikov Concern has decided to create a joint venture producing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the company’s CEO Alexei Krivoruchko said on at the International Defence Exhibition IDEX 2015 in Abu Dhabi. The Russian weapons manufacturer has decided to purchase a controlling…
Celia Ampel Reporter-South Florida Business Journal A drone manufacturer funded by Miami Beach billionaire Dr. Phillip Frost is opening an Aventura office. Jacksonville-based Drone Aviation Holding Corp. (OTCQB: DRNE) is still a small company, with just about 15 full-time and part-time…
Another video that has me scratching my head a little. The chap aims and fires the rifle from level ground and its level he shoots down an Inspire? Surely the Inspire would have to be only a couple of feet…
On February 27th, 2015, the Scientific Research Team of Ewatt AeroSpace undertook a mission traveling from Wuhan China to the high plains near Tibet to conduct flight tests of one of the latest UAV helicopters designed by Mr. Dennis Fetters, the…
BY THEODORE KARANTSALIS SPECIAL TO THE MIAMI HERALD Would the owner of a white, unmanned flying machine, last seen floating above east Hialeah, please come forward and collect your drone? A Hialeah man has a mystery on his hands after…
Haider Yutim,Astro Awani KUALA LUMPUR: The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) has lodged a police report following photographs of unauthorized flying vehicles or unmanned aerial vehicles in the vicinity of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) had been uploaded on…
An Al Jazeera journalist has been fined €1,000 (£725;$1,120) for flying a drone in Paris last week in the midst of a security alert sparked by unexplained drone sightings across the city. A court also confiscated the drone from Al…
