Episodes

Drone highways and corridors, flying over the ocean on hydrogen, a hybrid drone sets a new flight record, a world civil UAS market forecast looks bright, and a DroneMasters online meetup. UAV News: Digital Drone Highways: a Future Transportation Network Airspace Link is a company that wants to play a role in developing drone highways for safe and efficient transportation. The company connects private drone operators with state and local governments. Their tag line is: Partnering with local gove...

DOT announces the BEYOND drone program to follow the UAS Integration Pilot Program. A drone with morphing wings and tail, Europe’s first TRACE drone takes flight, placing sensors with darts fired from a drone, Sony hints at a coming drone brand.

A police department funds drones for response to 911 calls, paramedics in manned drones, public perception of drones, the U.S. government warns of drone attacks, a puffing drone, a heterogeneous drone swarm, and landing a UAV on a submarine. UAV News If you call 911 in this Georgia town, a drone might respond soon Brookhaven, Georgia will be using drones as part of its first responder program. The police department’s UAS unit was funded for four drones to respond to 911 calls, witness crimes in...

Cyclogyro propulsion for UAM, holographic particle detection, Singapore UAV licensing, Pipistrel autonomous heavy lift UAV, EU to patrol the Med, offshore wind farm maintenance with autonomous drones, drone seeding to save the Koala.

Loon and HAPSMobile test LTE from solar-powered drone, India MALE, Chinese weaponized drone swarm, small sensors dropped from small drones, FAA submits two proposed final drone rules, a Colorado drone club builds a drone park, a virtual drone summit.

Weaponized drones, Walmart tries to catch up with Amazon, drone swarms and UFOs, disinfecting a stadium with a drone, converting old biplanes to unmanned aircraft, and a video of whales swimming with surfers. UAV News Well, Sure: Drone With a Shotgun The i9 is a weaponized drone created for the UK’s Strategic Command by an unnamed company. It’s a human-operated, 6-rotor drone, about a meter across and intended as a breaching weapon for urban warfare. It uses machine vision to identify targets a...

Amazon security drone monitors the inside of your home, Bell cargo drone flies through metropolitan airspace, new underwater drone manufacturing facility, humanitarian awards, Covid tests delivered by drone, ATSB report on a pseudo-satellite break-up.

Long distance organ delivery flight, survey-grade micro drone, UK drone zone, multi-fuel drones, heavy-lift drones, a UAV landing at a commercial airport, locating pregnant dolphins, Verizon’s wildfire drone waiver, a former FAA Administrator lands a new job.

SeaClear aims to clean ocean trash, the Loyal Wingman powers up its engine, a drone crashes into wind-turbine, drone makers see an opportunity in anti-China sentiment, marine animal rescue, photographing the orange landscapes caused by wildfire smoke, and why harassing a police officer with a drone is a bad idea. UAV News Autonomous Drones and Vehicles Collect Rubbish from Ocean Floor There is a lot of trash in the oceans. One estimate puts it at around 26-66 million tons of waste with 94% of t...

We are joined by Skyward president Mariah Scott and product manager Amanda Breese to talk about drone remote identification.

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, optionally piloted aircraft could be a solution. Kaman Corp. is converting its conventionally piloted K-...

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 drones are an “imminent threat.” Instead of trying to shoot down super swarms, Kaminer proposes to use the s...

Linda Ziemba is the founding CEO of AeroDefense, which produces the AirWarden system for drone detection that locates both drones and pilots simultaneously. We discuss the legality of detection and mitigation systems, and how the AeroDefense system provides legal drone detection.

Wide-Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) for a Navy drone, hitting an airplane with a drone, delivery service in Alabama, quadcopter disrupts MLB game, UAS pilot program for Virginia, first commercial delivery drone to the Smithsonian, a drone finds a missing whale.

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, planners, engineers, UAS operators, and other stakeholders. If manned and unmanned aircraft are g...

Avian biomimicry, stadium sanitizing with a drone, a Galileo competition, a new HALE flys, drones and electromagnetic pulses, wildfire data from drones, new standards from EASA, an F-15 with a loyal wingman under its wing.

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 [PDF] has been published by the Rand Corporation. The report summarizes 26 specific instances of hacking dron...

We talk with Mike Winn, a co-founder and the CEO of DroneDeploy.

Our guest is George Mathew, chairman and CEO of Kespry, a leading drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider.

AI-powered drones perform extreme aerobatics, U.S. to allow export of armed drones, testing swarming drones, Royal Canadian Navy drone finds drug smugglers, hybrid drone rescues a stranded motorist, 5th Annual FAA UAS Symposium goes virtual.

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, cockroach-inspired Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot, or HAMR. The HAMR-JR is a ½ scale microbot allowin...

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 the concept of last-mile drone delivery. They wanted to see how unmanned aerial systems could assist with critical delivery durin...

Skyborg design competition for USAF loyal wingman UAVs, catapulting a drone from a helicopter, FAA investigating Blue Angels close encounter, drone launches grenades and sprays crops, Singapore keeps an eye on people, drone crash caused by electric lines.

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 hotel via EHang’s passenger drones and they could take sightseeing tours of the area with the drones...