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Episodes

Jan. 22, 2021

359 Smart Drone Mailbox

A smart drone mailbox could be a solution to delivery concerns, an FAA waiver for automated drones, Quantum networks with unmanned aircraft, precision infrastructure inspection, using a drone to contact rescuers, keeping a 3-...
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

A Walmart drone delivery hub is coming to Arkansas, researchers create bio-composite drone parts, a UAV for cloud seeding, Alphabet’s Wing isn’t happy with the remote ID rule, the “Uber of Drones” receives funding, and a 19-y...
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. Those are important steps in integrating UAS into the National Airspace System. This episode provides summaries of the rules and des...
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

Designing homes to accept deliveries by drones, a Smellidrone, Virginia partners with a UAS company, launching smallsats, refreshments delivered to golfers, a passive perching mechanism for micro drones, contract awards for l...
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. Also, a drone with morphing wings and tail, Europe’s first TRACE drone takes flight, placing sensors with darts fired from a drone, and Sony ...
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

A Voith-Schneider cyclogyro propulsion concept for UAM, holographic particle detection with a drone, new UAV licensing requirements in Singapore with stiff penalties for non-compliance, Pipistrel plans an autonomous heavy lif...
Oct. 16, 2020

349 Solar-Powered Drone LTE

Loon and HAPSMobile test LTE from a solar-powered drone, India tests a MALE prototype, and China tests a weaponized drone swarm. Also, very small sensors dropped from very small drones, FAA submits two proposed final drone ru...
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

An Amazon security drone will monitor the inside of your home, a Bell cargo drone flies through metropolitan airspace, a new underwater drone manufacturing facility, humanitarian award announcements, Covid tests delivered by ...
Sept. 25, 2020

346 The Longest Organ Delivery Flight by UAS

Long-distance organ delivery flight, a survey-grade micro drone, a UK drone zone, research on multi-fuel drones, heavy-lift drones, a UAV landing at a commercial airport, locating pregnant dolphins, Verizon’s wildfire drone w...
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

The FAA selected eight companies to help establish the technology requirement framework for drone remote identification, a key enabling technology. One of those companies is Skyward , a Verizon company that develops commercia...
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

AeroDefense founding CEO Linda Ziemba explains the AirWarden™ system for drone detection as well as the complex legal hurdles that must be considered. Guest Linda Ziemba is the founding CEO of AeroDefense . The company’s AirW...
Aug. 7, 2020

340 Wide-Area Motion Imagery

Wide-Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) for a Navy drone, deliberately hitting an airplane with a drone, drone delivery service in Alabama, quadcopter disrupts MLB game, UAS pilot program for Virginia, the first drone to make a comme...
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 ...
July 24, 2020

338 Drones and Biomimicry

Avian biomimicry, stadium sanitizing with a drone, a Galileo competition, a new HALE flies, drones and electromagnetic pulses, wildfire data from drones, new standards from EASA, an F-15 with a loyal wingman under its wing. U...
July 17, 2020

337 Hacking Drones

Hacking drones as a target and as a weapon, military drone flight over San Diego, a State-by-State drone report card, a milestone in India for civilian drones, the EHang 216 goes sightseeing, and those drone sightings in the ...
July 10, 2020

336 DroneDeploy CEO Mike Winn

Guest Mike Winn is a co-founder and the CEO of DroneDeploy . The company was founded in 2013, originally to combat poaching. DroneDeploy is now a leading cloud software platform for commercial drones. Industry sectors they se...