From new cargo drones to upcycling freight trains, the latest firms selected for the Freight Innovation Fund Accelerator have been unveiled. Ten small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will each receive a share of £1.3m to conduct technology trials with industry partners. The SMEs will also benefit from trial and business support tailored to their needs…
uAvionix, a leader in avionics solutions for uncrewed and crewed aircraft, announced today that it has been awarded a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) contract to advance the commercial use of Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the National Airspace System (NAS). The contract aims to develop highly reliable Command and Control (C2)…
Discover the latest best practice for innovation in air mobility, with this interactive Future Flight Standards landscape from BSI, created with support from Egis and backed by UK Research and Innovation. The new, expanded, Future Flight Standards landscape now covers lots of key use cases. Just a few examples include:➡️ Detect and avoid➡️ Operation of uncrewed aircraft systems➡️ New…
The prospect of remotely piloted drones operating in and out of some of the UK’s busiest airports has taken a step closer to reality following a series of pioneering simulations by the air traffic management service, NATS. The simulations, run at NATS’ head office in Hampshire, demonstrated how drones could be seamlessly integrated alongside other…
The strategic partnership to support new airspace user integration across the UK. NATS Services, the commercial arm of the UK’s leading ANSP and Altitude Angel, a global leader in unified traffic management (UTM) and creators of the 165 mile UK drone superhighway, have chosen the first day of Airspace World Expo in Geneva to announce…
The new 4th edition of the Metric Survey Specifications for Cultural Heritage has just been published online by the Geospatial Survey team of ARPAS-UK Member, Historic England. The third edition was published in 2015, and this new edition contains the most notable advance being the ubiquitous use of multi-image, structure from motion photogrammetric software and…
In PwC’s latest market research on commercial drones, more than 80% of people said drones can have a significant impact within industry around cost and time savings, carbon reductions, productivity and safety. However, the Bringing Trust in Commercial Drones report, an assessment of how industry attitudes to drones have changed, revealed only 43% of people…
Heliport was facing a growing number of drone flight requests. And it was causing problems. London Heliport’s Flight-Restriction Zone (FRZ) encompasses a number of locations: Clapham Common, Battersea Park, Stamford Bridge stadium, HMP Wandsworth, and many more. Unsurprisingly, hundreds of drone operators apply to fly within London Heliport’s FRZ, with the numbers increasing each year….
A consortia involving ARPAS-UK Members and using drone technology to revolutionise how landowners, environmentalist and conservationists manage the UK’s vast peatland carbon sink resources has today unveiled their programme to deliver the UK’s first carbon negative aviation project. Project “Drone RePeat” was recently awarded £500,000 from Natural England’s Paludiculture Exploration Fund to increase awareness of…
Cambridge Sensoriis Ltd, an ARPAS-UK member with deep expertise in radar technology, has been awarded a NATEP (National Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme) grant to deliver an ultra-lightweight onboard Detection and Avoidance Radar Tracking (oDART) avionics system. oDART leverages micro radar technologies that have been specifically developed for low altitude flight onboard Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS)…