ATM ModernizationChair of ASTM Drone Committee Discusses Regulations, Social Acceptance, and Remote ID In spite of rapid developments in drone technology over the last decade, commercial drone operations beyond visual line of sight are still somewhat limited. Ten years ago, many people believed that routine…
Air TaxiAmpaire's Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator Performs 1,135-Mile Nonstop Flight Ampaire, the hybrid-electric aircraft developer based in Los Angeles, announced completion of a successful 1,135-mile-long nonstop flight with its EEL demonstrator aircraft. The company claims that this journey is the single longest…
UnmannedDronamics CEO Talks Scaling Manufacturing and Launch of Cargo Drones The company Dronamics, headquartered in the UK, is the developer and operator of a large cargo drone called the Black Swan. At the Farnborough International Airshow last week, Dronamics announced a new…
Air TaxiBristow Group, AAP Aviation, ASL Group, and Helity Plan to Buy Lilium's eVTOL Aircraft As part of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding, Bristow Group plans to purchase 50 of Lilium’s electric aircraft and provide maintenance services for a launch network in Florida as well as future…
ATM ModernizationNASA Researchers Field-Test New Technology to Aid Drone Pilots in Fighting Fires NASA’s STEReO (Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations) project, led by the Ames Research Center, has developed a prototype of a drone pilot’s kit intended to help scale up the use…
RegulationNew Research Recommends Streamlining Regulations to Enable Drone Operations in the U.S. New research from George Mason University’s Mercatus Center indicates the need for states to create and manage drone routes in order to enable growth of the commercial drone industry in the U.S.…
Air TaxiEve Unveils Full-Size Mock-Up Of Its eVTOL Cabin Eve Holdings revealed a full-sized mock-up of the cabin of its electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for the first time at the Farnborough Airshow. In another announcement at the airshow…
ATM ModernizationSESAR JU Leads Project for Medical Drone Delivery in Belgium The Belgian Civil Aviation Authority recently authorized a first-of-its-kind beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone flight in Antwerp. This was the first BVLOS drone flight over a populated area operating within…