US insurance company State Farm (https://newsroom.statefarm.com/faa-drone-approval-for-damage-assessment/) reports that it has been granted a waiver by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for beyond visual line of
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“The real challenge of UTM is to define a single system with different users and communications methods”
Christian Struwe is Head of Public Policy Europe at DJI. DJI has its own UTM solution Aeroscope – what has been the market response to this?
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First shared airspace flight demonstrations underway in Ireland’s UTM U-Flyte research programme
The first flights involving manned and unmanned aircraft sharing the same airspace have taken place at Waterford Airport, Ireland, as part of the U-Flyte UTM
Read moreToulouse joins the EIP-SCC Urban Air Mobility programme
Toulouse Métropole has joined the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Initiative of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC). The initiative is led
Read moreThree take-aways from ICAO’s Drone Enable 2: Answers as well as questions to UTM/ATM integration
By Philip Butterworth-Hayes Integrating two completely different cultural, institutional and technical airspace management systems was never going to be easy but what Drone Enable 2
Read moreUK government advisers propose public consultation on air taxis
The UK’s Department for Transport’s Science Advisory Council (SAC) (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-future-of-flight-2017/position-statement-on-future-of-flight) has recommended that the department should start a public consultation on whether and how urban air
Read moreSensofusion launches upgraded version of AIRFENCE C-UAS
sUAS News (https://www.suasnews.com/) reports that Sensofusion is launching a latest version of its AIRFENCE counter-UAS system. “AIRFENCE 6.0 dramatically improves and upgrades Sensofusion’s capabilities to detect
Read moreUS Stinger missile to get new counter-UAS capability
UAS Vision (https://www.uasvision.com/2018/09/20/proximity-fuze-anti-uas-warhead-for-the-stinger/) and the Redstone Rocket (https://www.theredstonerocket.com/military_scene/article_1d971606-bc1a-11e8-954e-77d1c5059278) report that the Cruise Missile Defense Systems Project Office, in conjunction with the Armament Research and Development
Read moreEU research funding helps develop low-cost drone navigation system
The European Commission’s news service (https://cordis.europa.eu/result/rcn/239570_en.html) reports that an EU-funded initiative has developed a low-cost positioning and navigation system for unmanned aerial systems (UASs). Utilising
Read moreLatest Russian C-UAS gun “has prevented more than 20 UAS attacks”
The Firearms Blog (https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/09/10/russian-pishal-anti-drone-gun-to-be-sold-both-in-military-le-and-civilian-markets/) reports that a Russian company called “Avtomatika Concern” (a subsidiary of Rostec state corporation) has introduced an anti-UAS gun called “Pishal” (Пищаль
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