Looking for a job in the unmanned technology sector? Aerovel is looking to hire You may have read about Flexrotor, Aerovel’s very-long-range VTOL UAV, here at sUAS News. Perhaps you can help Aerovel bring it to the civil market during…
sUAS News introduces one more platform to bring the news and current events to the community and public at large. Originally envisioned as a series of 60 second Public Service Announcements (PSA) “This Is My Drone” where civilian end-users would…
While it is no big revelation the FAA’s successive FAA administrators have been fiddling while the UAS/RPAS airspace integration Rome has burnt to the ground, but here we will examine how far ahead the rest of the world is and…
Mark your calendars now for May 8th and 9th, 2014 to be in San Francisco California for the 2nd annual Small Unmanned Systems Business Exposition. We changed to the date to try and include more visitors from Asia and Europe…
An update to the previous story… http://www.suasnews.com/2013/11/26018/the-new-faa-roadmap/ At the end of that story, I attached a copy of the letter that was sent to the Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety, Ms. Peggy Gilligan. The letter highlights some of the arguments…
Gary Mortimer and Gene Robinson had been cajoling me to read the new documentation, Roadmap from the FAA. I was reluctant, as I knew that it would create a bunch of work for an already overworked cub reporter in the…
Looks like the ball has been volleyed back to Trappy’s side of the court. I’ve got to tell you that it appears that they may be working the hobby forum boards as these cogent points seem to echo arguments that…
Lately, we hear lots of talk about towns from Poughkeepsie to San Diego vying to transform their localities and regions into the new “Silicon Valley, prairie, alley or cul-de-sac of Drones.” After all, many think that Silicon Valley is just…
sUAS News Podcast interview with Raphael Pirker (aka Trappy), and Brendan Schulman. We spent 45 minutes with these two gentlemen hearing about the progression of events since the FAA imposed their $10,000 fine.Gene and I tried to pull back and side story out of the interview, without judgment and or trying the case. Very difficult to do, as we wanted to hear all about the strategy, and plans for working the motion to dismiss. This is a saga that the whole community is following closely and to say the case is polarizing is an understatement. However, I believe that most of us in the community are pulling for Raphael to prevail. I hope folks get as much out of the conversation as we did. Listen here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/suasnews/2013/10/30/conversation-with-the-black-sheep
There are bushels of folks out there now spending money and putting time in finding niches for unmanned systems that already exist. You may be saying, isn’t that what we should be doing? Possibly, but first we have to understand…
