BY TREVOR ROBB, EDMONTON SUN Edmonton’s first-ever sanctioned commercial drone operation took flight Wednesday. Using a DJI S1000 drone, Connor Burns from the Calgary-based company, Skymatics, along with two other crew members, were capturing video footage of two large city construction projects…
- Restrictions are in accordance with FAA guidelines – Additional limits will prohibit flight across borders DJI will release a mandatory firmware update for the Phantom 2, Phantom 2 Vision, and Phantom 2 Vision+ to help users comply with the…
The CARCom Subcommittee that met in Johannesburg on Monday was well received by industry pundits in attendance. Nearly two hundred comments were submitted by industry and addressed by SACAA members present. Not unusual in modern South Africa the proceedings were plunged…
The next generation of the tethered HV44 “HornetCAM” UAV has been unveiled. As a tethered UAV the HV44 is capable of flight/hover times exceeding 72 hours of continuous operation. From a safety standpoint, scenarios of a “run-away UAV” are not possible because…
With the imminent ‘opening up’ of National Airspace (NAS) to civilian commercial UASs, the need for qualified, experienced and knowledgeable professionals in this field is critical. The Monarch™ Training Courses are designed to provide a thorough understanding of relevant aspects…
QuestUAV is currently seeking a Sales Engineer to become part of its dynamic team and help grow the company into a multi million pound turnover company in the next three years in the civilian UAV / RPA manufacturing sector. A…
Little Smart Things have been awarded a grant from the Danish Innovation Fund to make their Cumulus One fixed wing drone able to land fully automated on a ship deck or other moving targets. The Space dept. at the Danish…
I’m very pleased with my X UAV Talons, especially when fitted with the wing extensions. South African distributor X-UAV CFaktor is taking orders for the new platform. X-UAV claim to be using a new sort of foam that sits between…
Issued yesterday, 5th Jan 2015 Drone lawyer Brendan Schulman tipped us off, mentioning this 333 exemption document…. A quite astounding turn around by the FAA on the face of it, if this is allowed to be replicated then it opens the…
I think this is a first for a mass market quad, off the shelf. There are after market parachutes and vendor retrofits. GoPro will have to add one to keep up ;-) Banggood has them for $499.99 for pre order…
