The Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research (NUAIR) alliance has established two new positions to facilitate rapid business growth and advancement of New York’s 50-Mile Drone
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Category: Urban air mobility
UK flight tests demonstrate BVLOS operations in non-segregated airspace in project RISE
The UK Future Flight Challenge Consortium consisting of Dronecloud, Frequentis, Sky-Drones, Cranfield University and Skyports reports successful completion of Project RISE. Project RISE is funded
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Vantis requests proposals for multiple UAS vendors to support operational BVLOS testing
Vantis, North Dakota’s statewide Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) network, has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking multiple unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, to
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Eurocontrol inaugurates Paris drone centre of excellence and drone corridor ops room
Eurocontrol’s Innovation Hub at Brétigny, near Paris, inaugurated its Paris Region Drone Centre of Excellence and opened a drone corridor operations room in cooperation with
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UK regulator invites feedback on paper exploring UTM deployment in the UK
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Innovation Hub has published a paper entitled Developing a Regulatory Vision for UK UTM and calls for industry input
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Sierra Leone launches medical drone delivery network to improve access to health services
Sierra Leone’s Directorate of Science Technology & Innovation (DSTI) reports completion of the first delivery of medicines by drone in the country. The drone delivery
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SESAR SAFIR-Med delivery network programme announces 2022 demonstration flights
The SESAR JU Unmanned Aerial Mobility (UAM) programme SAFIR-Med, which is testing medical deliveries between healthcare centres in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, has announced
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Pre-registration of drones opens as part of new legislative measures in Japan
Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has mandated registration of drones weighing more than 100 g from 2022 under new legislation aimed at
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Portugal launches UAM medical delivery corridors between Porto hospitals
Portugal’s Hospital de São João in Porto is testing “new technology-based solutions, in order to speed up the response in emergency situations, as well as
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Volocopter establishes joint venture in Saudi Arabia to create bespoke public eVTOL mobility system
Urban air mobility (UAM) company Volocopter and Saudi Arabia’s NEOM region have established a joint venture (JV) company to design, implement, and operate a bespoke
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