UAV News Talk – Drone News, eVTOLs, UAS Policy & Air Mobility

The FAA selected eight companies to help establish the technology requirement framework for drone remote identification, a key enabling technology. One of those companies is  Skyward , a Verizon company that develops commercial drone management and airspace intelligence platforms. They acted as a USS (UAS Service Supplier) for the cohort. Guests This episode we are joined by Skyward president...

Optionally piloted firefighting helicopters, was it a jetpack or a manikin on a drone, the Amazon Prime Air exemption with conditions, Japan Airlines interest in drones, UAS RF spectrum news, and using a drone to deliver a spare part to a drilling platform. UAV News Taking the Fight to the Night Fighting wildfires is dangerous at night and typically aerial firefighting is suspended. However, optio...

Technology developing to counter drone swarms, a blended wing body drone to catch poachers, studying pollinating bees, and Norway’s first UTM system. UAV  News The U.S. Navy Plans To Foil Massive ‘Super Swarm’ Drone Attacks By Using The Swarm’s Intelligence Against Itself Isaac Kaminer, an engineering professor at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School says “large-scale adversarial swarms” of dro...

AeroDefense founding CEO Linda Ziemba explains the AirWarden™ system for drone detection as well as the complex legal hurdles that must be considered. Guest Linda Ziemba  is the founding CEO of  AeroDefense . The company’s AirWarden™ system detects and locates both drones and pilots simultaneously. This provides actionable intelligence for security teams to respond to drone threats. Lind...

Wide-Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) for a Navy drone, deliberately hitting an airplane with a drone, drone delivery service in Alabama, quadcopter disrupts MLB game, UAS pilot program for Virginia, the first drone to make a commercial delivery goes to the Smithsonian, and a drone finds a missing whale. UAV News With this new sensor, Blackjack drones can monitor an entire city at once The  Boeing...

Airfield design guidelines for large UAS, a guidebook for UAS threats at airports, first free flight of Airbus naval UAS, studying sea turtles and saving baby deer, fully charging drone batteries in 5 minutes, and drones fly over a nuclear power plant. UAV News Woolpert hired to research and develop airfield design guidelines for large UAS The guidelines are primarily intended for airport managers...

Avian biomimicry, stadium sanitizing with a drone, a Galileo competition, a new HALE flies, drones and electromagnetic pulses, wildfire data from drones, new standards from EASA, an F-15 with a loyal wingman under its wing. UAV News A Bird James Bond Might Love Netherlands-based  The Drone Bird Co.  knows something about biomimicry. The company has used flapping drones masquerading pereg...

Hacking drones as a target and as a weapon, military drone flight over San Diego, a State-by-State drone report card, a milestone in India for civilian drones, the EHang 216 goes sightseeing, and those drone sightings in the U.S. midwest, revisited. UAV News Drones Aren’t Just Hackers’ Targets – They’re Hackers’ Weapons A 96-page report titled  How to Analyze the Cyber Threat from Drones &nbs...

Guest Mike Winn  is a co-founder and the CEO of  DroneDeploy . The company was founded in 2013, originally to combat poaching. DroneDeploy is now a leading cloud software platform for commercial drones. Industry sectors they serve include agriculture, construction, mining, energy, forestry, and others. DroneDeploy customers get professional-grade imagery and analysis, 3D modeling, and mo...

Guest George Mathew is the chairman and CEO of  Kespry , a leading drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider. The company delivers fully integrated solutions from drone data capture to industry-specific analytics. Kespry serves customers across North America, Europe, and Australia. George talks about “drone-based aerial intelligence” and Kespry’s success with “touchless inspections.”...

AI-powered drones perform extreme aerobatics, the U.S. administration intends to allow the export of armed drones, how to test swarming drones, the Royal Canadian Navy uses a drone to find drug smugglers, a hybrid drone rescues a stranded motorist – in a demonstration, and the 5th Annual FAA UAS Symposium goes virtual. UAV News Researchers train drones to perform flips rolls and loops with AI Rese...

A cockroach-inspired microbot, a manned vs. unmanned fighter fly off, autonomous deliveries from CVS, a Predator over Minneapolis protests, a police helicopter collides with a police drone, piloting a UAS from an airborne C-130J Hercules, and library books delivered by Wing. UAV News HAMR-JR, coin-sized robot by harvard researchers inspired by a cockroach Researchers at Harvard created the tiny, c...

A major test of last-mile drone delivery, direct-seeding rice with a drone, a drone-centric kiosk you can build yourself, and a webinar to learn the BVLOS regulatory landscape. UAV News Last Mile Drone Delivery: Testing the Limits of Commercial Operations DroneUp  partnered with Virginia’s  Center for Innovative Technology (CIT)  and  UPS  on a project to quickly evaluate...

Skyborg design competition for USAF loyal wingman UAVs, catapulting a drone from a helicopter, FAA is investigating a Blue Angels close encounter, a drone that launches grenades and sprays crops, flying over Singapore and keeping an eye on people, and a drone crash caused by electric interference. UAV News US Air Force launches Skyborg competition, artificial intelligence for loyal wingman UAV Sky...

A passenger drone hotel, a pub drone for beer delivery, UFOs that might be drones, distance-learning UAS education, flying creatures make drones better, measuring whales from above, and a close encounter with the Blue Angels. UAV News: A Passenger Drone Hotel: EHang and LN Holdings Make it a Reality EHang plans to create a passenger drone hotel in China. Hotel guests could travel to and from the h...

A loyal wingman is unveiled by Boeing, special ops drones for training exercises, safe and effective volcano research, remote ID technology partners announced, crushing rocks and measuring the pile with a drone, and PPE delivery to the home. UAV News Boeing rolls out first Loyal Wingman unmanned aircraft The first unmanned  Loyal Wingman  aircraft has been presented to the Royal Australi...

The U.S. Department of Transportation issued a report showing the benefits of blockchain for unmanned aircraft. Also, drone cinematographers and a labor agreement, a drone modeled after a dragonfly, VTOL reconnaissance, AI controllers, and AUVSI virtual sessions. UAV News US Transportation Dept. Says Blockchain Could Bring More Trust to Commercial Drones In a report titled  Blockchain for Unm...

Checking up on the public with a “pandemic drone,” a COVID-19 inspired BVLOS exemption, duck watching with drones, an unmanned BVLOS helicopter for humanitarian relief, how pre-historic flying reptiles could lead to better drones, and will fuel cells power eVTOL aircraft? UAV News Connecticut town tests ‘pandemic drone’ to find fevers. Experts question if it would work. The Westport Connecticut Po...

Altavian and the Sinclair National UAS Training and Certification Center team up to 3D print and distribute PPE masks, coronavirus resources from Drone Girl, US government anti-drone guidelines, a 360-degree onboard detect-and-avoid system, and an omnidirectional drone. UAV News Sinclair, Altavian partner to use 3-D technology to print masks Drone manufacturer  Altavian  teamed up with d...

Photographs drawn with a drone, a General Atomics SkyGuardian demonstration flight, an electric flying car racing series, a proposal for a drone emoji, 5G drones and networks, using drones while on quarantine, and autonomous resupply for the military. UAV News Drawing With Drones Over the Salt Flats of Bolivia Professional photographer Reubin Wu is using LED-equipped drones to make amazing photogr...

Drones fight the pandemic through cloud-based drone technology, spraying disinfectant, and medical deliveries. Also, a first responder drone endurance challenge, NOAA’s new unmanned systems program, and some free drone training. UAV News New NOAA program to support and expand agency’s use of unmanned systems NOAA , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, continues to expand their use...

An FAA Request For Information from low altitude operators, drones with super-fast reaction times, the Northern Plains UAS Test site wants to deliver packages, drone deliveries are underway in a small Virginia town, a European program to integrate drones into the airspace, UPS and Wingcopter plan for drone deliveries, using quadcopters to map inaccessible historic ruins, and Reaper replacements. U...

Unmanned aircraft and the Coronavirus (COVID-19), a new Drone Racing League Academy to teach STEM, EHang looks to Europe with their autonomous aerial vehicle, a radar cross-section database for malicious drone identification, and a flying car that looks like a car. UAV News Spanish police are using drones to scold citizens who go outside Many countries are combating the coronavirus by asking (or t...

DJI brings out the guns in its criticism of the Remote ID proposal, the Air Force has new medical standards for RPA pilots, a better communications antenna for UAVs, a draft executive order that would ban Chinese drones from the federal government, and using drones to speed 5G deployment. UAV News DJI urges FAA to reconsider Remote ID NPRM The comment period for the FAA Notice of Proposed Rulemaki...

Holographic radar for drone detection, inspecting the Tokyo underground, good uses for drones at airports, delivery drones in China, Elon Musk has another prediction, a drone delivery proposal for Long Island Sound, an eVTOL prototype goes up in flames, and NASA’s Autonomous Navigation Demonstration Challenge. UAV News Aveillant’s Holographic Radar and Fortem Technologies’ Complete End-to-End Coun...