Drone Blogs

The long-stalled movement to commercialize drone passenger vehicles appears to be gaining fresh momentum.  The FAA, alarmed at the rate of progress of China-based EHang, has recently stepped up its approval of prototypes developed by two leading US companies, Archer Aviation and Joby.  Both companies received special airworthiness certificates over the summer, as did ALEF... Read More

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Cleveland Clinic, Northeastern Ohio’s leading primary care center, has just contracted Zipline, a South San Francisco-based drone company, to deliver specialty medicines to patients at a dozen of the center’s local health clinics.   Some of these patients live in remote semi-rural areas that are difficult to reach promptly with road vehicles, especially during inclement weather. ... Read More

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Arkansas was tied for second in 2022 on the Virgina-based Mercatus Center’s annual scorecard of US states most ready to promote drone commerce.  This year the state jumped twenty points to #1, joining four other states that have established an executive-level task force to promote drone industrial development. The Bear State’s latest surge is hardly... Read More

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How do national postal services reach their customers living on remote, often difficult-to-reach islands?  Often with great difficulty – and indeed, sometimes just sporadically.  While governments are generally mandated by law to provide their citizens with regular mail delivery , weather and marine conditions can frequently intrude to delay and even derail ongoing postal service. ... Read More

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Drones are well-known for providing compelling video footage of the devastation wreaked by extreme weather events, including tornadoes and hurricanes.  But can these same unmanned aircraft teach us more about how these storms develop, analyze their trajectory and help us limit the prospective damage?  Apparently, they can. Surface and underwater drones are already being used... Read More

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Agriculture has emerged as a major growth sector in the global drone industry, with unmanned aircraft increasingly deployed to manage crop development from seeding and spraying to cultivation and even packaging.  But drones are also becoming critical adjuncts to livestock management, a role that has received far less attention in the media and the trade... Read More

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The drone industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds.  Currently, at $33.7 billion sales, the industry will grow annually by a CAGR of 7.1% to reach $55.6 billion by 2030 – a cumulative 65% increase over the 7-year period.  Most of the growth is being driven by commercial sectors like real estate, construction, agriculture... Read More

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Search and rescue (SAR) is one of the most popular and widely practiced drone missions.  Law enforcement agencies love to tout their SAR successes, in part to dispel the idea that they are engaged in routine surveillance or other sometimes controversial activities.  But private drone fliers are also active in SAR missions, sometimes as volunteers,... Read More

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Is Amazon finally ready to move forward with drone deliveries? The company was one of the first to jump into the drone business more than a decade ago – and did so with great fanfare. In an interview on “60 Minutes” then-owner Jeff Bezos predicted that his company’s new drone service, Prime Air, would soon... Read More

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Hayward, CA-based Skydio, a recognized pioneer in the UAV indoor inspection market, is rapidly moving into a number of new commercial niches.  One important new niche for the company is industrial fire-fighting.  Skydio’s developed a state-of-the art tandem drone system for controlling difficult-to-manage industrial fires that may result from oil, gas and chemical leaks and... Read More

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