Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, the renowned preserved railway line, has recently unveiled a captivating perspective of its historic tracks. For the first time in its 134-year history, the railway has been captured from the air, thanks to the advanced drone technology provided by Networx3 UAV. The award-winning Matrice M30T and DJI Avata drones,…
PwC: Building Trust in Commercial Drones “Only 43% think industry is using commercial drones effectively”. Recently, PwC UK published Trust in Commercial Drones, an assessment of how industry attitudes to drones have changed over the past three years and the implications for actions to grow the UK drone economy. PwC stated “It was our pleasure to work…
uAvionix, a leading provider of command, navigation, and surveillance technologies for crewed and uncrewed aircraft, announced today that it has received FCC (Federal Communications Commission) approval, coordinated with the FAA, to operate its SkyLink C-Band Command and Control (C2) radios for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations at the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Emerging Technology…
Professor Iain Gray CBE, Director of Aerospace at Cranfield University, has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours 2023, appointed Knight Batchelor for services to the aerospace industry. Iain spent his industry career at the highest levels in aerospace with roles at BAE Systems and Airbus. He became Director of Engineering, then Managing Director at…
National Highways has launched a new flight management system which will speed up processes for drone operators looking to fly near motorways or major A roads and improve safety through better co-ordination and visibility of flights. With the use of drones playing an increasing role in modern living, National Highways is introducing a new flight…
Boeing-backed autonomous flight technology developer, sees.ai, becomes the first company in the UK to secure routine permission from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to fly drones Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) in non-segregated airspace, on the high voltage electricity transmission network. This permission builds on the BVLOS permission that sees.ai received in April 2021…
UK’s flight planning app to relaunch with enhanced user experience and industry-ready flight planning tool set Altitude Angel’s developer platform is open and available to all at https://developers.altitudeangel.com Altitude Angel, the world’s most trusted UTM (Unified Traffic Management) technology provider, is to release a new and improved version of the UK’s most popular flight planning tool,…
Cyberhawk, world leader in visual data management, adopts Intelligent Energy’s IE-SOAR™ fuel cells to offer customers better quality data and increased operational efficiency. Cyberhawk delivers end-to-end capabilities to their customers around the globe spanning data collection, democratisation of imagery and operational insights via analytics. Over 5,000 project managers around the globe rely on their flagship software…
MGI Engineering CEO Mike Gascoyne and one of the Mosquito drones (Credit: MGI Engineering) Formula One specialist MGI Engineering has revealed two cargo drone technology demonstrators, using its motorsport mindset to tackle challenges in the sector. The Mosquito UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) were unveiled by the Oxfordshire firm today (19 April) at the eVTOL Insights’ London Conference….
