“The federal-state breakdown about who manages drone airspace and surface air rights has not been resolved, which, as the Government Accountability Office recently reported to
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Author: Philip Butterworth-Hayes
Globalvia “will launch Seville drone services in 2023, eVTOL services 2024/2025″
Spanish news service ABCdeSevilla reports that infrastructure company Globalvia is planning to drone and passenger eVTOL services imminently. The story says that the company “has begun the
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US military completes tests on competing high-powered microwave C-UAS technologies
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes The effectiveness of high-power microwaves to eliminate the threat of small UAS (sUAS) attacks on front line troops has been a key
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SwissDrones granted European Drone Operator License (LUC) by the Malta Civil Aviation Directorate
SwissDrones, the global manufacturer of long-range unmanned helicopter systems, has announced it has obtained it’s European drone operator license – the EASA Light UAS Operator
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US Naval Sea Systems Command publishes tender for DRAKE C-UAS programme
The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Program Executive Office Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC), Expeditionary Missions Program Office (PMS 408) is issuing a competitive
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EASA publishes “simplified enhanced containment” drone provisions
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has today published its means to show compliance with the “enhanced containment” provisions for drones, allowing the applicant
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“GNSS will be key to integrating drones into ATM” – results of Italy’s URANO research
“GPS/EGNOS and Galileo are of key importance for guaranteeing levels of safety appropriate for the services that can be developed using the (UAS) craft.” This
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Airbus-led team launches Air Mobility Initiative: aircraft, UTM and vertiport components
Airbus is leading a new programme, the Air Mobility Initiative, to bring Urban Air Mobility (UAM) to Bavaria as a blueprint for inter-city transportation in
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Social media posts report “US UTM company Skyward to cease operations in June”
Social media reports say US UTM company Skyward, part of the Verizon group, will cease operations in June 2022. According to the reports, customers have
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Australia’s FlyFreely “to provide drone flight authorisations in controlled airport airspace”
Australia’s Civil Aviation and Safety Authority (CASA) has verified Australian startup FlyFreely to provide instantaneous controlled airspace authorisations as part of its automated airspace authorisation
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