In the lush fields of the Swiss town of Forel, volunteers use drones to find fawns nestled beneath tall grasses, preventing farmers from inadvertently harming them with heavy agricultural machinery. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Dragon Boat Festival Drone Show Lights Up Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour
Thousands of residents and tourists gathered for a drone show with a Dragon Boat Festival theme that lit up the sky above Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour on Monday evening. Continue reading
Vivid Sydney 2024 Drone Show
The theme of this year’s Vivid Sydney 2024 Drone Show is ‘Love Is In The Air’ – an unforgettable spectacle and one of the Vivid 2024 highlights. Over 700 drones illuminate the night sky above Circular Quay, crafting a visual symphony of universal symbols of love. Continue reading
Drone Light Show Marks D-Day 80th Anniversary
A spectacular drone show lit up the skies above Portsmouth last night (Wednesday), to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day – and the result was visible as far as the Isle of Wight. Continue reading
DJI Completes World’s First Drone Delivery Tests on Mount Everest
DJI has teamed up with Nepalese drone service company Airlift, video production company 8KRAW, and Nepalese certified mountain guide Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, to fly the world’s first successful delivery drone trials on Mount Everest (Mount Qomolangma). Continue reading
Four Companies Selected to Support the US Air Force and Defense Innovation Unit’s Enterprise Test Vehicle Project
The Air Force Armament Directorate (AFLCMC/EB) and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) have partnered to identify and prototype commercial and dual-use technology solutions for an enterprise test vehicle that demonstrates modularity for subsystem upgrade testing. The technology will also serve as a foundation for affordable high-rate production. Continue reading
Case IH Debuts Sprayer Drones in Brazil
Case IH announced the pre-launch of its first sprayer drone as a complementary solution to the company’s portfolio. The company will import and distribute the Vtol in two models, 30 litres and 70 litres, in Brazil to all its concessionaries. The price of the drones will be published with the introduction. Continue reading
Amazon Prime Air Drones Get FAA BVLOS Approval to Expand Deliveries in Texas
The approval will allow Prime Air to further expand drone deliveries and lays the foundation to safely scale operations to more locations in the U.S. We’re excited to share that the FAA has given Prime Air additional permissions that allow us to operate our drones beyond visual line of sight, enabling us to now serve more customers via drone and effectively expand and scale our drone delivery operations. Continue reading