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Episodes

Feb. 12, 2021

362 United eVTOL

United Airlines plans to provide eVTOL service, hydrogen transportation for fuel cell UAVs, flying an uncrewed aircraft through a hurricane, drones meet law enforcement and privacy, and drones for STEM. UAV News United First ...
Feb. 5, 2021

361 Urban Airports for Drones

Urban airports for drones as a service, FAA UTM transparency, a new Transportation secretary, drones that self-monitor airworthiness, domestic actions against Chinese drones, and the Superbowl no-fly zone. UAV News Hyundai Pa...
Jan. 29, 2021

360 Mars Helicopter Ingenuity

The Mars Helicopter Ingenuity travels to the Red Planet, UK Defence innovation criticized, Black Swift and GPS-denied navigation, online drone education, unmanned loyal wingman for the UK, Coke and Coffee drone promotion, and...
Jan. 22, 2021

359 Smart Drone Mailbox

Smart drone mailbox, FAA waiver for automated drones, Quantum networks with unmanned aircraft, precision infrastructure inspection, using a drone to contact rescuers, keeping a 3-rotor quadcopter from crashing, air taxi trials coming to Paris.
Jan. 15, 2021

358 Insitu Lawsuit

Boeing settles the Insitu lawsuit; Intel neuromorphic chips in drones; betting on drone races; connected drone delivery from Verizon, UPS, and Skyward; and new drones from Cadillac, Sony, and Autel Robotics. UAV News Boeing t...
Jan. 8, 2021

357 Walmart Drone Delivery Hub

Walmart drone delivery hub coming to Arkansas, bio-composite drone parts, cloud seeding, Alphabet’s Wing and remote ID, funding the Uber of drones, 19-year-old with a drone leads rescuers to lost fishermen.
Dec. 30, 2020

356 FAA Final Rules: Remote ID and Flight Over People

The FAA has issued final rules for small unmanned aircraft remote ID and flight over people, key steps in integrating UAS into the National Airspace System.
Dec. 18, 2020

355 Royal Mail by Drone

Royal Mail delivery by drone, the Bell Autonomous Pod Transport, drones and vaccine distribution, Navy MQ-25 Stingray warrant officers, Catching Gremlin UAVs with a C-130, and test and evaluation programs you might join. UAV ...
Dec. 11, 2020

354 Home Design for Drone Deliveries

Home design for drone deliveries, a Smellidrone, Virginia partners with UAS company, launching smallsats, deliveries to golfers, perching mechanism for a micro drone, loyal wingman prototypes, long-range test flight in South Korea.
Nov. 20, 2020

353 Building Drone Highways

Drone highways and corridors, flying over the ocean on hydrogen, a hybrid drone sets a new flight record, a world civil UAS market forecast looks bright, and a DroneMasters online meetup. UAV News: Digital Drone Highways: a F...
Nov. 13, 2020

352 US DOT BEYOND Program

DOT announces the BEYOND drone program to follow the UAS Integration Pilot Program. A drone with morphing wings and tail, Europe’s first TRACE drone takes flight, placing sensors with darts fired from a drone, Sony hints at a coming drone brand.
Oct. 30, 2020

351 Drones for First Responders

A police department funds drones for response to 911 calls, paramedics in manned drones, public perception of drones, the U.S. government warns of drone attacks, a puffing drone, a heterogeneous drone swarm, and landing a UAV...
Oct. 23, 2020

350 Cyclogyro Drone

Cyclogyro propulsion for UAM, holographic particle detection, Singapore UAV licensing, Pipistrel autonomous heavy lift UAV, EU to patrol the Med, offshore wind farm maintenance with autonomous drones, drone seeding to save the Koala.
Oct. 16, 2020

349 Solar-Powered Drone LTE

Loon and HAPSMobile test LTE from solar-powered drone, India MALE, Chinese weaponized drone swarm, small sensors dropped from small drones, FAA submits two proposed final drone rules, a Colorado drone club builds a drone park, a virtual drone summit.
Oct. 9, 2020

348 Weaponized Drones

Weaponized drones, Walmart tries to catch up with Amazon, drone swarms and UFOs, disinfecting a stadium with a drone, converting old biplanes to unmanned aircraft, and a video of whales swimming with surfers. UAV News Well, S...
Oct. 2, 2020

347 Indoor Security Drone

Amazon security drone monitors the inside of your home, Bell cargo drone flies through metropolitan airspace, new underwater drone manufacturing facility, humanitarian awards, Covid tests delivered by drone, ATSB report on a pseudo-satellite break-up.
Sept. 25, 2020

346 The Longest Organ Delivery Flight by UAS

Long distance organ delivery flight, survey-grade micro drone, UK drone zone, multi-fuel drones, heavy-lift drones, a UAV landing at a commercial airport, locating pregnant dolphins, Verizon’s wildfire drone waiver, a former FAA Administrator lands a new job.
Sept. 18, 2020

345 SeaClear Project to Clean the Ocean

SeaClear aims to clean ocean trash, the Loyal Wingman powers up its engine, a drone crashes into wind-turbine, drone makers see an opportunity in anti-China sentiment, marine animal rescue, photographing the orange landscapes...
Sept. 11, 2020

344 Skyward

We are joined by Skyward president Mariah Scott and product manager Amanda Breese to talk about drone remote identification.
Sept. 4, 2020

343 Optionally Piloted

Optionally piloted firefighting helicopters, was it a jetpack or a manikin on a drone, the Amazon Prime Air exemption with conditions, Japan Airlines interest in drones, UAS RF spectrum news, and using a drone to deliver a sp...
Aug. 28, 2020

342 Countering Drone Swarms

Technology developing to counter drone swarms, a blended wing body drone to catch poachers, studying pollinating bees, and Norway’s first UTM system. UAV News The U.S. Navy Plans To Foil Massive ‘Super Swarm’ Drone Attacks By...
Aug. 21, 2020

341 Drone Detection

Linda Ziemba is the founding CEO of AeroDefense, which produces the AirWarden system for drone detection that locates both drones and pilots simultaneously. We discuss the legality of detection and mitigation systems, and how the AeroDefense system provides legal drone detection.
Aug. 7, 2020

340 Wide-Area Motion Imagery

Wide-Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) for a Navy drone, hitting an airplane with a drone, delivery service in Alabama, quadcopter disrupts MLB game, UAS pilot program for Virginia, first commercial delivery drone to the Smithsonian, a drone finds a missing whale.
July 31, 2020

339 Planning for Drones at Airports

Airfield design guidelines for large UAS, a guidebook for UAS threats at airports, first free flight of Airbus naval UAS, studying sea turtles and saving baby deer, fully charging drone batteries in 5 minutes, and drones fly ...