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Texas-based program to train EMS drone pilots in emergency response missions. by Jim Magill Emergency medical personnel in Texas will soon be able to deliver life-saving medicines and equipment via drones to victims of emergencies or disasters, thanks to a training program announced last month by Draganfly. The training program got underway in August in […] The post Texas Program Will Train EMS Drone Pilots in Delivery, Situational Awareness for Crisis Response appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

ANRA Delivers ‘Medicine From The Sky’ in India by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby ANRA Technologies has announced its participation in India’s ‘Medicine From The Sky’ initiative. The project was spearheaded by the Emerging Technologies Wing of the India government Information Technology Electronics and Communications (ITE&C) Department, in partnership with the World Economic Forum […] The post “Medicine from the Sky”: ANRA Continues to Develop Drone Delivery Framework in India appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Join us this morning, September 15 at 11 am ET, as the Dawn of Drones Podcast continues our month-long homage to UAS/AAM industry “Movers and Shakers.” It’s the FAA’s National Drone Safety Awareness Week – join Dawn and guests Patricia Mathes, Manager, National FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) and Dave Kraus FAA Industry Lead & CEO/Founder […] The post This Week on Dawn of Drones, DSAW Continues! Being Part of a Culture of Safety appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

It’s TUESDAY of Drone Safety Awareness Week! Today after 8:00 am, Dave Krause of Influential Drones and volunteer FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) Industry Member is joined by Dawn Zoldi of P3 Tech Consulting in a DroneLife.com 2-minute highlight reel of Tuesday’s National Drone Safety Awareness Week Topic: “Safe Flyers Register and Mark Their Drones.” #FlySafe […] The post Register and Mark Your Drones! Drone Safety Awareness Week appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

If you’ve ever wondered exactly how drones get used during a public safety mission, the new Skydio video series is worth watching. In Episode 1, The Fire, a 3-minute video explains exactly how and in what situations a Skydio drone is deployed by first responders: showing the outputs, explaining the sensors used, and describing the […] The post Original Skydio Video Series Tells the Stories of First Responders in Critical Missions appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

BRINC Drones, makers of the purpose-built LEMUR series for SWAT team missions, has joined the nation’s leading education and advocacy group for the use of drones in first response, DRONERESPONDERS. A relatively new player in the drone industry, US-based BRINC has made a big impact in the first responder community. They’re delivering the LEMUR to SWAT […] The post BRINC Drones Becomes DRONERESPONDERS Sponsor appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Aloft (formerly Kittyhawk) has announced today the introduction of the new Notify & Fly feature for FAA’s B4UFLY app on iOS and Android. The new feature, live in the app today, provides users with a simple and easy way to let other drone pilots know that they are […] The post Notify & Fly: Aloft Launches New Capability for B4UFly App appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

It’s National Drone Safety Awareness Week, hosted by the FAA Safety Team (FAAST), and we’re all in. DRONELIFE has teamed up with Dawn Zoldi of P3Tech Consulting and Dave Krause, volunteer FAAST member and co-founder of Influential Drones to bring you a brief 2 -3 minute video on an important safety topic every day. You can […] The post National Drone Safety Awareness Week: We’re All In appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Flying car company Terrafugia launched a new brand and a new drone at Commercial UAV in Las Vegas: the Commaris SEEKER. The CommarisTM SEEKERTM is an electric, fixed-wing/VTOL hybrid aircraft designed for autonomous commercial aerial applications. “This UAV is designed to perform a wide variety of commercial inspection operations in applications such as power, gas, oil, mapping, […] The post Commaris™ SEEKER™: Terrafugia Launches New Brand, New Drone appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

This week at the Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas, DRONELIFE had the opportunity for an interview with one of the industry’s most widely recognized figures: AgEagle CEO Brandon Torres Declet. Brandon Torres Declet first made an impact on the drone industry as the entrepreneur behind Measure, a drone services and aerial intelligence company founded […] The post From the Floor of Commercial UAV Expo: One-on-One with AgEagle CEO Brandon Torres Declet appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

“Our mission is to provide health access to all humans on the planet,” says Zipline medical drone delivery’s Conor French. It’s a bold statement, but at the Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas, French made the point that medical drone delivery democratizes access to supplies all around the world. “There are many communities that lack […] The post Zipline Medical Drone Delivery: Conor French from the Floor of Commercial UAV Expo appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

The Commercial UAV Expo keynotes in Las Vegas kicked off this morning to a reassuringly full (but appropriately socially distanced) auditorium, and insights from drone industry figures including the Commercial Drone Alliance’s Lisa Ellman and FAA Chief Administrator Steve Dickson. The Commercial Drone Alliance “With a new administration in place in Washington, there’s been a […] The post Commercial UAV Expo Keynotes: CDA’s Lisa Ellman and FAA Admin Steve Dickson appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

On Weds Sep 8th 11 am ET, the Dawn of Drones Podcast will stream LIVE from Commercial UAV Americas Expo in fabulous Las Vegas as we continue “Movers and Shakers” month. Join Dawn and guests and episode sponsors Don “The Weather Don” Berchoff, CEO of TruWeather Solutions and Mike DiCosola, CEO of Drone Industry Systems […] The post TruWeather Solutions and “Vertiport in a Box” Drone Industry Systems on Dawn of Drones This Week! appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Teledyne FLIR announced the FLIR VUE® TZ20-R today, a hi-res, thermal zoom gimbal designed for DJI V2 Matrice 200 Series and Matrice 300 airframes. The radiometric gimbaled thermal drone payload offers pixel-by-pixel temperature measurement, with up to 20x digital zoom. Radiometry allows users to measure the temperature of every pixel in the scene. Thermal zoom […] The post Thermal Zoom Drone Payload: Introducing Teledyne FLIR VUE TZ20-R appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Passenger drones could offer a solution for the hassle of airport traffic and parking problems. EHang BVLOS trial flights for airport transport and parcel delivery have now been completed in Estonia, under the European Union’s GOF 2.0 Integrated Urban Airspace Validation project. An EHang (Nasdaq: EH) spokesperson says that the flights are of major significance: […] The post Forget Ride Shares and Taxis: EHang BVLOS Flights for Airport Transport and Parcel Delivery appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Paladin Autonomous Drones for 9-1-1 Response By Jim Magill Every second counts whenever a police department or a fire station receives a 9-1-1 call. Yet, first responders often waste precious time discerning the extent and even the exact location of an emergency situation before having to send resources out to deal with that situation. Paladin […] The post Drones for 9-1-1- Response: Paladin Autonomous Drones can be on the Scene in Seconds appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Drone mapping platform DroneDeploy offers free software for hurricane relief. by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian Crosby DroneDeploy has announced that it will be providing free software access to any organization or government agency involved in conducting drone-powered response efforts in the areas impacted by the ongoing disaster caused by Hurricane Ida. With the stated mission […] The post DroneDeploy Offers Free Software for Hurricane Relief appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Drone Training for First Responders: Aquiline Drones offers free “Flight to the Future” training. By Jim Magill As the nation approaches the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, in commemoration of the sacrifices made by first responders on that day, Connecticut-based Aquiline Drones is offering its Flight to the Future drone training program free to […] The post Drone Training for First Responders: Aquiline Drones “Flight to the Future” Program appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Wing is celebrating 100,000 deliveries supporting communities and local businesses. Where regulations allow, drone delivery is taking off – and, as research from Virginia Tech shows, residential customers love it. Wing calls Logan, Australia the drone delivery capital of the world: Logan residents have ordered and received more than 50,000 deliveries directly to their homes by […] The post Wing Drone Delivery: 100,000 Deliveries and Happy Customers [VIDEO] appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Two representatives from the U.S. House of Representatives have sent a letter to Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, asking that drone manufacturer DJI remain on the Department of Commerce Entity List. The full text of the letter is linked above. Jan Schakowsky, Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, House Committee on Energy […] The post DJI and the Department of Commerce Entity List: Two U.S. Representatives Petition Secretary Gina Raimondo appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

This week on the Dawn of Drones Podcast: ParaZero and Delta Drones International on the ground-breaking drone safety systems enabling today’s commercial drone industry. Tune in Wednesday, September 1st at 11 am ET. On Weds Sep 1st 11 am ET, the Dawn of Drones Podcast kicks off “Movers and Shakers” month (September) with special guests […] The post ParaZero and Delta Drone International this Week on Dawn of Drones appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Drone delivery in India moves forward, as ANRA hits 100 hour delivery milestone. by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby ANRA Technologies, an industry leader in integrated airspace, mission management, and delivery systems for unmanned aircrafts, has reached a 100-flight hour milestone while carrying out Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) delivery operations in India. […] The post Drone Delivery in India: ANRA Hits 100 Hour Milestone appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

It’s the biggest and most influential technology show in the world: the giant Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas each year. In 2022, the Women and Drones global awards will be presented at CES® 2022. Formerly held at the Interdrone drone conference, the Women to Watch in UAS Global Awards have been elevating and […] The post Women and Drones Global Awards Move to CES 2022! appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

Our friends from the Roswell Flight Test Crew were on the floor at AUVSI’s Xponential 2021 – and in the episode featured below, they interview Sasha Mela at Venture Aerospace about the company’s design for a 500-pound crop-dusting drone. “Founded by NASA scientists, powered by brilliant young engineers, Venture Aerospace has developed new engines, new materials and […] The post Crop-Dusting Drone: the Roswell Flight Test Crew at Xponential 2021 [VIDEO] appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article

FoxFury Announces EXOLANDER© drone system for Autel’s EVO II Drone. by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian Cosby FoxFury Lighting Solutions has announced the launch of the EXOLANDER© Drone System for the Autel EVO II aircraft as part of an expanded partnership with TacSwan and Autel. The new features provided by the US-made EXOLANDER© transform the Evo […] The post EXOLANDER© Drone System Takes Autel EVO II Next Level for Aerial Search and Rescue appeared first on DRONELIFE. View the full article