Transport Canada is seeking proposals from innovators that will help set the requirements for, and the deployment of services needed for Canada’s Remotely Piloted Aircraft
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Bristol Airport selects CLEARSKY drone threat management system supplied by telent and DGS, first UK installation
Bristol Airport in the UK has awarded a three-year contract to a collaboration between telent and technology partner Digital Global Systems (DGS) for the installation
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“Magnetic interference from railway cables caused drone crash” – UK AAIB report
Magnetic interference caused by overhead railway cables led to the crash of an Aerialtronics Altura Zenith ATX8 in October 2019, according to a recently-released UK
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“Rare opportunity for airports to expand BVLOS drone operations” – Altitude Angel ATM Head
Airports have a rare opportunity to expand beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations during the pandemic according to Altitude Angel’s Head of ATM
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Helicus Aero Initiative targets integration of manned and unmanned operations in the healthcare sector by 2023
The Helicus Aero Initiative (HAI) launched in 2016 is developing an ecosystem to support aerial logistics solutions for the healthcare sector. To realise the goal
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“In 2019 venture capitalists invested USD930 million in drone industry” – latest report
Financial news organisation Finbold.com reports that: “by the end of 2019, total investment in the (drone) industry was a record high of USD1.2 billion, a
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International regulatory bodies acknowledge risk of falling behind in ICAO-led discussion on urban air mobility
ICAO’s Air Navigation Commission (ANC) hosted a discussion with the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and standards agency Eurocae on Urban Air Mobility (UAM) on
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EASA’s proposed air taxi certification rules “suffer from silo approach to safety”
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published its proposed methods on how to certify hybrid or electric air taxis. David Gleave, safety editor with Unmanned Publications,
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NASA releases initial concept of operations for high altitude airspace traffic management
US National Aeronautical Space Agency (NASA) Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI) has released an initial concept of operations (ConOps V1) and associated operational requirements for cooperative
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“Bringing drone operations into perspective” – new survey
By Peter van Blyenburgh “Global UAS OPS” is now online. This is an international survey on drone operations (current & upcoming) and is available in
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