Consumer drones are a severe risk for helicopters – according to a recent report from the UK Government. The UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has revealed that helicopters are at the...
Franky Zapata, the flying enthusiast who attempted to cross the English Channel on his personal VTOL on July 25, has been unsuccessful. The VTOL – dubbed Flyboard Air – is fitted with five jet...
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,...
Ever since the drone sighting that halted flights at Gatwick airport, drones have had a hard time staying out of the news spotlight. Over Christmas, Gatwick flights were disrupted for almost two-days due to...
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...
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...
The FAA expects America’s commercial drone fleet to be the largest growing drone market over the next few years, growing to at least four times its present size over the next five years –...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is testing a new drone authorisation programme to automatise US Drone registration. Announced at the FAA’s UAS symposium in Baltimore, the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) automated...
In case anyone missed it, drones were among the biggest new trends of 2017. Three of the largest helicopter OEMs are investing in drones and people are coming up with new uses for the...
This week saw the first flight of the Volocopter, a manned drone/helicopter hybrid. We also witnessed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg toying with an unmanned drone on stage at his Facebook futureology festival F8. The piloted drone is simply...