The CDR interviewed Jonathan Elliott of MKE Drones, a professional pilot-for-hire based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at Newark Liberty Airport as he was en route to upstate New York for a TV production.
Fortem Technologies, a Utah-based company which counts Boeing's HorizonX among its investors, put on an anti-drone show for legislators on February 11 at the Utah State Capitol building in Salt Lake City.
Delair, a provider of c-drones and data analytics for industry and agriculture founded in 2011 in France, has launched a drone data asset management portal dubbed Delair Aerial Intelligence with the goal of simplifying drone-collected data presentation, analysis and reporting for enterprises.
Australia's Emesent has launched Hovermap, a LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) 3D point cloud scanning device for professional c-drones, at the International LiDAR Mapping Forum in Denver, Colorado on January 29th.
We interviewed Mike Hirschberg, Executive Director of the Vertical Flight Society, on January 30 during the eVTOL Technical Meeting and Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona.
Boeing conducted the first brief flight test of its prototype unmanned air taxi it calls a passenger air vehicle (PAV) on January 22 in Manassas, Virginia.
The environmental group Greenpeace France flew two c-drones -- one of which ignited and dropped a distress flare canister -- over the world's largest nuclear fuel processing facility at La Hague on the Cotentin peninsula of Normandy. There was no damage reported.
In a keynote speech at the SciTech Forum of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in San Diego on January 9, Eduardo Domínguez-Puerta, the head of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) at Airbus, outlined the group's air taxi long-term market assessment and strategy.
CyPhy Works, based in Massachusetts, has renamed itself Aria Insights and announced a shift beyond drone production to drone-based data processing and reporting.
The Federal Aviation Administration has announced it will relax rules for flying commercial drones at night and over people, and will start a UTM (U-space) pilot project at three US sites.
