Author Archives: Martin Walls
Amazon testing commercial UAS traffic management system
Amazon Prime Air is working with NASA and Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) to solve the problem of how small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) performing a wide variety of commercial applications can fly safely in the same low-altitude airspace … Continue reading
Move over mushers and planes, drones to deliver emergency supplies
A team of unmanned aerial vehicle experts led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks is working on delivering emergency medical supplies and, maybe later, cargo across Alaska with drones. UAF recently announced an upcoming test to fly a package across … Continue reading
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Tagged Drone Delivery, Emergency Management, Public Health and Medicine
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Unmanned time bomb: Is Newark airport drone incursion our ‘Gatwick’ wake-up call?
Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the nation’s 15 busiest airports, closed for more than an hour last Tuesday night after an unauthorized drone entered its airspace. This incident occurred less than 30 days after London’s Gatwick airport drone incursion, … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Traffic Control, Airports and Airspace, Disabling Drones and Counterdrone, FAA, Restrictions, Safety
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Minnesota Sheriff’s Office using drones to save lives
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird. … It’s a plane! … It’s a drone? Yes, the Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office is using “unmanned aerial vehicles,” more commonly known as drones, in ways that may be surprising and … Continue reading
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Tagged Law Enforcement, Public Health and Medicine, Safety, Search-and-Rescue
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