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Episodes

347
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.
346
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.
345
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 caused by wildfire smoke, and why harassing a police officer with a drone is a bad idea. UAV News Autonomous Drones and Vehicles Collect Rubbish from Ocean Floor There is a lot of trash in the oceans. One estimate puts it at around 26-66 million tons of waste with 94% of th...
344
Sept. 11, 2020

344 Skyward

We are joined by Skyward president Mariah Scott and product manager Amanda Breese to talk about drone remote identification.
343
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 spare part to a drilling platform. UAV News Taking the Fight to the Night Fighting wildfires is dangerous at night and typically aerial firefighting is suspended. However, optionally piloted aircraft could be a solution. Kaman Corp. is converting its conventionally piloted K-M...
342
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 Using The Swarm’s Intelligence Against Itself Isaac Kaminer, an engineering professor at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School says “large-scale adversarial swarms” of drones are an “imminent threat.” Instead of trying to shoot down super swarms, Kaminer proposes to use the sw...
341
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.
340
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.
339
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 over a nuclear power plant. UAV News Woolpert hired to research and develop airfield design guidelines for large UAS The guidelines are primarily intended for airport managers, planners, engineers, UAS operators, and other stakeholders. If manned and unmanned aircraft are go...
338
July 24, 2020

338 Drones and Biomimicry

Avian biomimicry, stadium sanitizing with a drone, a Galileo competition, a new HALE flys, drones and electromagnetic pulses, wildfire data from drones, new standards from EASA, an F-15 with a loyal wingman under its wing.
337
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 U.S. midwest, revisited. UAV News Drones Aren’t Just Hackers’ Targets – They’re Hackers’ Weapons A 96-page report titled How to Analyze the Cyber Threat from Drones [PDF] has been published by the Rand Corporation . The report summarizes 26 specific instances of hacking dron...
336
July 10, 2020

336 DroneDeploy CEO Mike Winn

We talk with Mike Winn, a co-founder and the CEO of DroneDeploy.
335
June 26, 2020

335 Kespry CEO George Mathew

Our guest is George Mathew, chairman and CEO of Kespry, a leading drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider.
334
June 19, 2020

334 Drone Aerobatics

AI-powered drones perform extreme aerobatics, U.S. to allow export of armed drones, testing swarming drones, Royal Canadian Navy drone finds drug smugglers, hybrid drone rescues a stranded motorist, 5th Annual FAA UAS Symposium goes virtual.
333
June 13, 2020

333 Insect-Inspired Microbot

A cockroach-inspired microbot, a manned vs. unmanned fighter fly off, autonomous deliveries from CVS, a Predator over Minneapolis protests, a police helicopter collides with a police drone, piloting a UAS from an airborne C-130J Hercules, and library books delivered by Wing. UAV News HAMR-JR, coin-sized robot by harvard researchers inspired by a cockroach Researchers at Harvard created the tiny, cockroach-inspired Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot, or HAMR. The HAMR-JR is a ½ scale microbot allowing...
332
June 5, 2020

332 Last-Mile Drone Delivery Tested

A major test of last-mile drone delivery, direct-seeding rice with a drone, a drone-centric kiosk you can build yourself, and a webinar to learn the BVLOS regulatory landscape. UAV News Last Mile Drone Delivery: Testing the Limits of Commercial Operations DroneUp partnered with Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and UPS on a project to quickly evaluate the concept of last-mile drone delivery. They wanted to see how unmanned aerial systems could assist with critical delivery during...
331
May 22, 2020

331 Skyborg for Loyal Wingman UAV

Skyborg design competition for USAF loyal wingman UAVs, catapulting a drone from a helicopter, FAA investigating Blue Angels close encounter, drone launches grenades and sprays crops, Singapore keeps an eye on people, drone crash caused by electric lines.
330
May 15, 2020

330 Passenger Drone Hotel

A passenger drone hotel, a pub drone for beer delivery, UFOs that might be drones, distance-learning UAS education, flying creatures make drones better, measuring whales from above, and a close encounter with the Blue Angels. UAV News: A Passenger Drone Hotel: EHang and LN Holdings Make it a Reality EHang plans to create a passenger drone hotel in China. Hotel guests could travel to and from the hotel via EHang’s passenger drones and they could take sightseeing tours of the area with the drones....
329
May 8, 2020

329 Boeing Loyal Wingman

Boeing unveils a loyal wingman, special ops drones for training exercises, safe and effective volcano research, remote ID technology partners announced, crushing rocks and measuring the pile with a drone, and PPE delivery to the home.
328
May 1, 2020

328 Blockchain for Unmanned Aircraft

The U.S. DOT report shows benefits of blockchain for unmanned aircraft. Drone cinematographers and a labor agreement, a drone modeled after a dragonfly, VTOL reconnaissance, AI controllers, and AUVSI virtual sessions.
327
April 24, 2020

327 COVID-19 Inspired Drones

Checking on the public with a “pandemic drone” and a COVID-19 inspired BVLOS exemption. Also, duck watching with drones, a BVLOS helicopter for humanitarian relief, pre-historic flying reptiles, and fuel cells for eVTOL.
326
April 17, 2020

326 Altavian and Sinclair Print Masks

Altavian and the Sinclair National UAS Training and Certification Center team up to 3D print and distribute PPE masks, coronavirus resources from Drone Girl, US government anti-drone guidelines, a 360-degree onboard detect-and-avoid system, and an omnidirectional drone. UAV News Sinclair, Altavian partner to use 3-D technology to print masks Drone manufacturer Altavian teamed up with doctors from local hospitals and improved on a 3D-printed PPE mask design from the Billings Clinic . It uses recy...
325
April 10, 2020

325 Drawing with Drones

Photographs drawn with a drone, a General Atomics SkyGuardian demonstration flight, an electric flying car racing series, a proposal for a drone emoji, 5G drones and networks, using drones while on quarantine, and autonomous resupply for the military. UAV News Drawing With Drones Over the Salt Flats of Bolivia Professional photographer Reubin Wu is using LED-equipped drones to make amazing photographs at the salt flats in Bolivia. For some images, Wu uses light from the drone to illuminate the s...
324
April 3, 2020

UAV 324 Drones and the Pandemic

Drones fight the pandemic through cloud-based drone technology, spraying disinfectant, and medical deliveries. Also, a first responder drone endurance challenge, NOAA’s new unmanned systems program, and some free drone training. UAV News New NOAA program to support and expand agency’s use of unmanned systems NOAA , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, continues to expand their use of UAS to collect high-quality environmental data. To support this, NOAA is establishing a new Unman...
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