According to Dronelife’s editor, Miriam McNabb, a Japanese team of aerospace professionals called ‘teTra Aviation’ have won the ‘GoFly’ Final Fly-Off ‘Pratt & Whitney Disruptor Award’ held
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Category: Experimental craft
Flirtey granted parachute safety patent
by Michael Willoughby Flirtey, the drone delivery service has been granted a patent to enhance its fundamental technology with an additional component to improve safety in drone
Read moreChinese methanol-powered drone flies for 12 hours
by Michael Willoughby Scientists working on a drone development programme created a “game-changing” methanol-powered fuel system that kept their UAV in the air for 12
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Indra gets EASA green light for flight testing “one of Europe’s largest civil drone projects”
Indra reports it has been approved by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to start flight tests of one of the largest and most advanced
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Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma teaming with Bell to test UAS flights
by Michael Willoughby The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO), the third-largest Indian Nation in the United States, is set to carry out tests and flights with
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Airbus VSR700 prototype unmanned helicopter performs first flight
by Michael Willoughby Airbus Helicopters’ VSR700 unmanned aerial system prototype has performed its first flight at a drone test centre near Aix-en-Provence in the south
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Iris Automation completes “first US BVLOS drone flight using only airborne detect and avoid”
by Michael Willoughby The Kansas Department of Transportation’s (KDOT) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) integration pilot programme (IPP) has successfully completed the first beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone
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UAV Turbines’ Monarch 5 engine completes successful inaugural flight
by Michael Willoughby UAV Turbines announced the inaugural flight of its Monarch 5 engine, a first-of-its-kind microturbine propulsion system, at Griffiss International Airport. This new
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Impossible Aerospace flies quadcopter 29 miles across Nevada Desert without recharge
by Michael Willoughby Impossible Aerospace said its US-1 quadcopter was the first aircraft of its kind to cross the northern Nevada desert without recharging. The
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Romanians build the “world’s first fully-functioning flying saucer” – video
by Michael Willoughby Romanian makers have created a the world’s first fully-functioning flying saucer, reports online magazine, Vice. https://www.adifoaircraft.com/assets/videos/adifo.mp4 According to Vice, The craft was
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