Fife-based Aerial Photographer Thomas Haywood wins Aerial Photographer Specialist of the Year Fife-based aerial photographer, Thomas Haywood (51) has been awarded Aerial Photographer Specialist of the Year at the Corporate LiveWire Scotland Prestige Awards 2022. The event, which took place on the 17th October at the Norton House Hotel, Edinburgh, celebrated businesses and individuals who…
Skyfarer Ltd and partner Medical Logistics UK have announced their collaborative Medical Drone Delivery Beyond Visual Line of Sight trial commencing this week, in a secured CAA approved airspace called “The Medical Logistics UK Corridor”. Due to growing pressures on the healthcare system, there is an ever-expanding need for hospitals to receive vital time-sensitive medical…
Swellpro UK, the European sales and service centre for a range of waterproof drones and who operate in Dorset, had a positive product demonstration and meeting with the Barbados National Conservation Committee at the start of September in Richmond Park, London. The drones offer a range of different applications including thermal imaging, mounted mega phones…
CHICAGO, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Valqari is excited to announce that it is combining efforts with IDU Group, providing a complete drone delivery infrastructure from rooftops and the windows of buildings to a complete product line of drone mailbox and drone locker ground stations. As part of this merger, Ryan Walsh will continue as CEO of Valqari while Kevin Duckers,…
As part of the UK-Government funded UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Flight programme, UK SMEs Flare Bright and Zenotech publish the results of a groundbreaking wind measurement project at the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) annual meeting. Demonstrating that wind models can be validated by real-world wind measuring up to heights of…
With a re-designed, 30% lighter airframe combined with a 3Kg+ payload capacity and 55+ minute flight time, the Clogworks DMqD Gen 2 is a perfect fleet addition for more demanding survey and inspection applications. There has been a seismic shift towards UAV based applications in recent years, driven by their ease of use, increasing capabilities…
PwC have launched their updated reported on the impact drones will have on the UK’s economy, productivity, jobs and quality of life. The original report was published in 2018. Drones offer public and private organisations an opportunity to carry out tasks faster, safer, cheaper and with less impact on the environment than traditional methods. This…
Esri UK today announced that Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) has rolled out its Site Scan for ArcGIS drone flight management and image processing software, to support the use of drones on its 90km Midlands section of HS2. Faster and more efficient drone surveys are already saving around £20,000 a year on monthly construction progress surveys on…
Flying car company Terrafugia launched a new brand and a new drone at Commercial UAV in Las Vegas: the Commaris SEEKER. The CommarisTM SEEKERTM is an electric, fixed-wing/VTOL hybrid aircraft designed for autonomous commercial aerial applications. “This UAV is designed to perform a wide variety of commercial inspection operations in applications such as power, gas, oil, mapping, agriculture, and…
Snowdonia Aerospace is pleased to announce the successful first flights of their new Dragon drone at the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre, Llanbedr, last week. Working in partnership with SwiftFlight Avionics and supported by Innovate UK Future Flight Challenge grant funding, the Dragon drone will be a major research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) platform for demonstrating the safe integration of drones into…