Drone industry veteran Gretchen West has joined Schiebel Aircraft Inc. (SAI), the U.S. subsidiary of the Austria-based Schiebel Group, as president and CEO. According to SAI, West will help facilitate ...

Drone services company Helios Visions has released its complimentary “ Guide to Flying Drones in Chicago,” which was created to inform drone professionals on the best practices for safely and legally ...

UPS Flight Forward is permitted, for example, to fly an unlimited number of drones with an unlimited number of remote operators in command, enabling the company to scale its operations to meet ...

Kespry, a drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider, says Midsouth Aggregates is now using the Kespry platform for inventory management and mine planning. With granite and limestone reserves ...

As public safety agencies continue to adopt unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), new research from DRONERESPONDERS – a nonprofit supporting the use of drones in public safety – provides a look at how ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued Hensel Phelps Construction Co. a Part 107 waiver to operate a parachute-equipped DJI Phantom 4 drone over people.

The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) has received a four-year waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to routinely operate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) over people.

The Mexico City Police Department (SSP CDMX) has launched a new drone program in partnership with Cape, a cloud platform for drone telepresence and data management. As part of the program, drones ...

A hot topic for some time has been the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) authority over navigable airspace and, thus, the confusion surrounding federal preemption for state and local unmanned ...

MicaSense has released the RedEdge-MX dual-camera imaging system, a 10-band multispectral solution designed for aerial applications such as coastline monitoring, vegetation research and ...

Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) industry stakeholders have provided feedback on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) proposed rules for routinely flying drones at night and over people, as well ...

Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has completed phase one of a project to determine the effectiveness of delivering an automated external defibrillator (AED) via drone versus a traditional ambulance. The ...