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The popular image of a “drone” is a noisy bird-like contraption that whirs and clatters overhead, collecting video footage or making a food delivery. But drones not only fly, they swim, too. Underwater drones, or UUVs, as they’re sometimes called, are beginning to fulfill just as many commercial niches as their aerial counterparts. In fact,... Read More
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It looks like a helicopter and flies just like one, but the newly-minted RX550X – the largest uncrewed whirlybird to be approved for production and sale starting in 2024 – has many advantages not found on the standard manned version of the aircraft. For one thing, there’s room for a higher payload – about... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:A growing number of U.S. high schools are incorporating drones into their curricula to help spur interest in STEM education and to open up a new career path in aviation. One of the latest schools to do so is Hartford, CT-based Middletown High School which first embraced drones several years ago but is now refining... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Drone R&D centers – large and small– are popping up everywhere these days. Most are based on a university campus that houses an established technology institute, sometimes with an airport nearby. The Florida Institute of Technology (FIT), based in Melbourne, FL, in the heart of the state’s “Space Coast,” and next to the Melbourne/Orlando International... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Everyone knows that China-based DJI is the world’s leading drone manufacturer and distributor – with a whopping 75% of the total market. The annual report of the German market research firm DII– released this week – confirms that lead. But can you guess who the next top four are? Probably not, and some of the... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:About two dozen law enforcement agencies nationwide have developed a specialized crime-fighting program that allows them to respond automatically to 911 calls with drone-based aerial surveillance. Dubbed “Drone First Responder,” the program sends a drone to a prospective crime scene in advance of arriving patrol officers, allowing them to size up the situation and adapt... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Building a drone assembly plant is the clearest sign a drone company can give that it’s preparing for full-scale commercialization. Many drone firms have received some degree of airworthiness certification from the FAA, but without formal agency approval for a specific production design – a “type certification” – they cannot begin manufacturing a drone for... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Arlington County, Virginia – located on the outskirts of Washington, DC – is one of America’s five richest counties. So, when its crime rate spikes, as it has since 2021, the county’s 200,000 residents start getting nervous. But responding to the crisis hasn’t been easy. Cutbacks in the county budget and low police salaries have... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:“Precision” agriculture is emerging as a major commercial application for the burgeoning US drone industry. By targeting the application of farm inputs to soil and crops with the highest prospective yield, farmers can reduce their resource and labor costs, boost production and maximize their profits. Field labor is difficult to recruit and expensive to employ,... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Australia’s Swoop Aero is fast ascending the ranks of the world’s leading small cargo drone companies. Like its American counterpart Zipline, the Melbourne-based firm first cut its teeth with medical supply deliveries in Africa, beginning in Malawi, and later expanding into the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other nearby nations. From the start. the... Read More
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