Drop the pilot or ‘keep skin in the game?’
What’s the fastest and most efficient way to develop autonomous aircraft – to drop the pilot from the outset or keep one on board, at least initially, to keep “skin in the game”. The developments in...
Category: Drones
Rise of illegal drone incidents across the UK
According to Freedom of Information requests submitted by Sky News, reported drone incidents in the UK have increased by around 40% over the past two years. In a post-Gatwick and post-Heathrow climate, however,...
Airbus Aerial looking beyond line of site
Airbus’s drone-services subsidiary Airbus Aerial will be working with the FAA to develop ‘beyond visible line of sight’ technologies. The FAA’s unmanned aircraft integration program (IPP), spread over three years, has been developed by...
Flight on Mars
NASA will be sending an unmanned helicopter to Mars on the next Mars Rover mission in 2020. A small autonomous rotorcraft will be travelling 54.6 million kilometres to the red planet along with the...
Xcel becomes first US operator to be granted BVLOS exemption
One of the most-pernickety regulations hampering the commercial drone market from taking off right now are the beyond visual line-of-sight regulations, or BVLOS for short. Companies such as Amazon have been promising a future...