Tag: Drone

Heavy-Lifting Drone to Help Wildland Firefighters | GearJunkie

With the new Firefly drone, Parallel Flight Technologies improves flight time and payload capacity for safer, more efficient firefighting around the clock… The wildfires of 2021 were some of the most devastating ever recorded. Mass fires throughout the U.S. and abroad decimated wildlife populations, destroyed millions of acres, released countless environmental toxins into the atmosphere, […]

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World’s Smallest eVTOL Gets Application Approval for Flying Car Certificate in Japan – autoevolution

Japanese air mobility company SkyDrive has made the headlines multiple times so far, advertising its one-seater flying car, the SD-03. Now the company boasts of reaching a new milestone, as its application for a type certificate for its aircraft was accepted by the MLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism) in Japan… More about […]

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Driving to new heights: Canadian team designs flying car set to take off soon | Watch News Videos Online

Opener, a company created by Canadian engineer Marcus Leng, is at the forefront of the flying car industry. Leng says Opener is preparing to release Blackfly, a personal aerial vehicle, better known as a flying car. Dawna Friesen has a Canadian television exclusive of what’s waiting in the wings for drivers… More about this article […]

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AF, Navy May Both Fly DARPA Missile Mothership – Breaking Defense

WASHINGTON: DARPA plans to flight test a prototype of a novel air-launched drone — one designed to launch its own high-speed air-to-air missiles — as soon as the first half of 2024. LongShot is conceived as an autonomous, air-launched uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV) that can serve as a sort of mothership, launching its own air-to-air […]

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DARPA Is Developing Aircraft-Launched Missile-Like Drones That Fire Their Own Air-To-Air Missiles

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has hired General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, to craft designs for an air-launched missile-toting air-to-air combat drone as part of a program called LongShot. In concept, a larger manned aircraft would fire this unmanned air vehicle, which could then fly to a certain area and […]

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Google’s Wing warns new drone laws ‘may have unintended consequences’ for privacy – The Verge

Alphabet’s drone delivery company still wants drones tracked — but differently This past week, the US government made the single biggest, most impactful set of changes to drone law we’ve yet seen — ruling that almost every drone in US airspace will need to broadcast their locations, as well as the location of their pilots, […]

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US will soon allow small drones to fly over people and at night | The National

New FAA rules will open new opportunities for commercial drone deliveries Small drones will be allowed to fly over people and at night in the US, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday, in a step towards their use for widespread commercial deliveries. The FAA said its long-awaited rules for the drones will address security […]

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Dr Ryan Starkey: Developing Supersonic Drone – sUAS News – The Business of Drones

For a man with a speciality in hypersonic aircraft systems, it is no surprise that Dr. Ryan Starkey “likes to go fast.” However, Dr. Starkey’s efforts to develop a drone, known as GoJett, that can travel at mach 1.4 (over 1,000 mph) is much less about ‘a need for speed,’ and more about creating a […]

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DARPA says it’s getting closer to snatching drones out of midair | Engadget

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is still developing its Gremlins project, which is apparently getting closer to grabbing drones out of the sky. The agency said it was “inches from success” during its latest round of test flights. Each of the three X-61A Gremlins Air Vehicles (GAV) flew for more than two hours […]

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Rocket startup builds world’s biggest drone to launch satellites – Business Insider

Aevum, a quiet, scrappy, and ambitious rocket-launch startup, unveiled the biggest drone in the world on Wednesday. Called Ravn X, the fully autonomous vehicle is 80 feet long, has a wingspan of 60 feet, and stands 18 feet tall. It’s not the largest unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) by size — the wings of Northrop Grumman’s […]

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