Solar UAV Gets Extended Endurance
A new extended model of the Silent Falcon solar electric, fixed wing, UAV has been launched. The EE or Extended Endurance model incorporates the...
Social Media Giant Explores New Field
Drone batteries are heavy and the short run times characterizing small drones are two major problems faced by unmanned aerial vehicles. A drone solution...
Major Shift in Drone Performance
The flight endurance of a powerful drone has been doubled. The e-Drone Zero, Europe's first hydrogen powered drone is a long endurance quadcopter. The...
New Player at Urban Transport Arena
Aerospace giant Boeing has successfully completed the first outdoor flight tests of the cargo air vehicle (CAV), its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL)...
Rolls-Royce and Laser Weapons?
Rolls-Royce has been quietly developing an integral system required to operate laser weapons on the battlefield for about a decade. The technology is an...
UAVs Clean Energy Solution Launched
Drones are transforming operations in a number of industries, including infrastructure inspection, agriculture, search and rescue, mining, and more.
Drones are becoming an integral part...
Energy Saving Technologies in UAV World
Various companies around the world are exploring new energy solutions for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with increased endurance. A new China-developed hydrogen fuel UAV...
Police Hybrid Drone Takes Off
Manned helicopters cannot operate after sunset, provoking critical delays on a number of emergencies, which sometimes mean more casualties. A new technology will help...
Facebook is Secretly Advancing its Drone Tech
Facebook has been quietly continuing with its plan to use high-flying drones capable of bringing internet connectivity to communities around the world who still...
Game-Changer for UAV Power Market
The effectiveness of unmanned aerial vehicles is limited by their flight time and payload capacity. Longer flight times are often needed and alternative power...
New Solar-Electric Aircraft was Designed for High-Altitude Missions
As more and more advantages of renewable energy are being taken into account in the field of aerial transportation, a new environmentally-friendly autopilot aircraft...
Drone Flight Endurance Record Broken
The Zephyr spy drone has extended the record for the longest flight within the Earth’s atmosphere to 25 days, two-thirds more than the previous...
Accelerated Development of Solar Electric UAVs
China is pursuing a solar-electric, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) development program called Qi Mingxing (Venus). According to a report by the Chinese aviation...
New Drone Charging Method to Allow Indefinite Operation
While the entire drone industry has been laser-focused on how drones can improve established commercial industries, the feasibility of indefinitely operational drones opens the...
New Solar Powered Drone will Stay Airborne for Whole Year
The PHASA-35 high-altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (HALE UAV) could stay airborne for a whole year using nothing but solar power. The project...
Versatile Electric UAV Under Development
The world market of civil UAVs such as full electric Air-Taxi, Border Guard, Logistics, Security, Natural Disaster and other missions is expected to increase...
Solar Power Source Developed for Autonomous Systems
Autonomous systems are predicted to become a part of daily life – often operating without human intervention. However, every time an autonomous system or...
Connectivity for Everyone, Everywhere?
“Connectivity for everyone, everywhere is one of the great challenges of our generation. Facebook has already connected nearly 100 million people as a result...
Hybrid UAV Tiger Gets New Propulsion System
The US Navy ordered 13 new fuel cell propulsion systems for installation onboard its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Protonex, a Ballard Power Systems’ subsidiary,...
Hybrid Tiger UAV to Defeat Flight Endurance Challenge
The widespread use of small UAVs in both the military and industry has been limited to-date by the factor of endurance. To fly all...
Hybrid Drone Breaks Endurance Record
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles powered by LiPo batteries (Lithium Polymer cells) usually have a limited endurance. The normal battery drone can fly only 10 to...
World-Record Flight for Hybrid Drone
Most commercial multicopter drones boast flight times of 25 to 30 minutes. Now, drone manufacturer Quaternium is claiming a new milestone in this field,...
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