Drone Blogs

Four months ago, Walmart announced that it was beginning store deliveries by drone from its super store outlet in Frisco, a town of 210,000 residents located in North Texas.  At the time, Walmart said it would start drone deliveries in another North Texas town “soon” – but it didn’t say where.  Last week, it disclosed... Read More

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The British National Health Service wants to fast-track deliveries of emergency medical supplies to hospitals in Northumbria using drones.  It’s a great idea that promises to bring speedy relief to tens of thousands of patients in this remote difficult-to-access region.  But the plan has run into a snag: Local pilots groups and airports oppose the... Read More

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 The most amazing thing about the new VT-NAUT fixed-wing drone manufactured by Aeromao is its uncanny resemblance to an eagle in flight.  From a distance, it’s not easy to distinguish the two, which could one day make the craft enormously useful to Pentagon planners as a stealth reconnaissance plane, operating deep behind enemy lines. ... Read More

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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