A drone has delivered a package to a moving barge in winds as part of trials by the Port of Rotterdam Authority in the Netherlands to determine whether the technology can improve the efficiency of Europe’s largest seaport.
Bell has completed a demonstration of its APT 70 unmanned cargo aircraft equipped with Xwing’s detect-and-avoid system under NASA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the National Airspace System project.
Unmanned cargo aircraft developer Sabrewing Aircraft has signed an exclusive representation agreement with Riyadh-based trading company Arabian Development & Marketing Co. covering sales in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and Pan-African region.
Drone delivery system developer Matternet has announced a partnership with Japan Airlines (JAL) to demonstrate the transport of medical supplies by drone in Tokyo.
In 2018, seeing the crop of potentially disruptive startups pursuing new forms of aerial mobility, Boeing formed NeXt. Now it is moving to shutter NeXt as swiftly as it can.
Vertical noted that many of the advancements in battery technology have emerged from the automotive sector, but these batteries are “not optimized for aviation gravimetric energy or power density requirements.”
Flight services provider DroneUp on Sept. 22 announced a pilot program with Walmart and Quest Diagnostics to deliver COVID-19 test sample collection kits by drone in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
Turkish unmanned aircraft system developer Baykar Makina has carried out the first flight of its Cezeri ducted multicopter electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Verizon Skyward and French manufacturer Parrot have partnered to offer a drone training and operations management package based on Parrot’s Anafi USA quadcopter, the companies announced Sept. 15.
South Korea’s LG Chem, the largest manufacturer of batteries for electric vehicles, has conducted the country’s first flight test of a next-generation lithium-sulfur battery.
