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Aloft and uAvionix Partner to Deliver Airspace Visibility for Drone Operators and Public Safety Agencies

By The Editor on May 23, 2025 06:50 am

– Aloft Technologies, a provider of unmanned aircraft systems fleet and airspace management solutions, and uAvionix, a pioneer in command, navigation and surveillance systems for UAS, have announced the integration of uAvionix’s FlightLine ADS-B surveillance network and Casia G ground-based optical detect-and-avoid (DAA) system into Aloft’s Air Boss platform for enterprise UAS Traffic Management (UTM). […]

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AgEagle to Integrate RedEdge-P Camera with Ascent AeroSystems Spirit UAV

By The Editor on May 23, 2025 06:40 am

– Ascent AeroSystems, a global designer and manufacturer of rugged, compact, high-performance unmanned aerial systems, has signed an MOU with AgEagle, a provider of best-in-class unmanned aerial systems and sensors for military, public safety, and commercial use, to integrate the AgEagle RedEdge-P multispectral camera with its high-performance Spirit coaxial unmanned aerial vehicle. The RedEdge-P multispectral […]

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DARPA Program Sets Distance Record for Power Beaming

By The Editor on May 23, 2025 06:32 am

In a series of recent tests in New Mexico, the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program achieved several new records for transmitting power over distance. The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission from a laser 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) away. Over the course of the test campaign, […]

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C-Astral Aerospace and Auterion Unveil Stealthy MWT (Medi Wing Tactical) Delivery Drone

By The Editor on May 23, 2025 06:13 am

– C-Astral Aerospace and Auterion have announced their collaboration at AUVSI Xponential 2025. This partnership showcases the Red Dot: Best of the Best Design Award-winning SQA2 eVTOL blended wing body UAS, enhanced by Auterion’s trusted software platform for robotics and autonomous systems, alongside a revolutionary high-speed, radar-invisible MWT (Medi Wing Tactical) delivery drone. The SQA2 […]

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Mitsubishi and Yamaha to Research Hybrid-Powered UAVs

By The Editor on May 23, 2025 06:01 am

– Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Yamaha Motor) are conducting joint research to develop a medium-sized multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle capable of carrying a payload of 200 kilograms. The two companies have conducted a flight test of a hybrid-type medium-sized UAV equipped with a compact, lightweight power generating unit developed […]

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Saab JAS 39 Gripen – the $5,000 Jet That Destroyed China’s Air Force in 4 Days

By The Editor on May 23, 2025 06:00 am

November 2015. Chinese pilots flying Russian Su-27 fighters took to the skies to face something strange in a joint military exercise – a bizarre, lightweight aircraft with an unconventional wing design that they had never encountered before in combat. Over the next four days, the airplane wiped the floor with China, claiming 41 victories to […]

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Dette er nesten uforståelig. Utviklingen av BVLOS sfor ubemannede farkoster synes ikke å ha noen ende, det har pågått i omtrent 15, kanskje 20 år nå. Hvor lenge skal dette på gå før en blir enige om internasjonale standarder? Ikke vet jeg. (Red.)

UK CAA Awards Grant For BVLOS Drone Ops Research

Flight trials will explore Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations in shared airspace.

Mark Phelps

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has awarded a grant to a consortium of providers to prepare an operational demonstration of service-provider support for overlapping Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations in shared airspace. Participants include the Airspace Modernisation Fund (coordinating), ANRA Technologies U.K., Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, Manna Drone Delivery, and Wing.

The consortium aims to leverage experience from ongoing U.S. UAS Traffic Management operations and implementation. Live trials will be conducted in Lancashire, U.K. “The work will validate interoperability, governance frameworks, and cooperative operating principles for safely managing commercial and emergency service drone operations in shared airspace,” according to the CAA.

Stuart Lindsey, head of airspace modernization for the CAA, said, “The Airspace Modernisation Support Fund exists to accelerate practical innovation and research that benefits the wider aviation community. This project exemplifies that intent by enabling the operational evaluation of live, multi-stakeholder BVLOS operations that will help inform the UK’s Future of Flight Programme, as well as the next stages of UK airspace policy and regulation.”