“Stay Up-to-Date with the Latest Drone News: DRONELIFE’s Weekly Headlines Roundup”

Wingcopter and ZAL Center of Applied Aeronautical Research GmbH are teaming up to explore green hydrogen as a potential power source for Wingcopter’s electric drones. LIFT Aircraft conducted the first-ever piloted eVTOL demonstration flights in Japan using its HEXA aircraft. Red Cat Holdings has made a major financial investment in Firestorm, the developer of the first fully Modular Unmanned Aerial System (MUAS) to be 3D printed and payload agnostic. CAV Ice Protection Limited has filed for a patent for a solution for small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) that could dramatically improve the operation of commercial drones in cold climates. Auterion has released new and improved versions of the Auterion Operating System (OS) and the Auterion Mission Control (AMC), providing simplified operations and an enhanced user experience for users performing Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations. Amsterdam Drone Week saw discussions on urban air mobility, U-Space, and getting to scale with commercial drone operations. ONYX Insight and Nearthlab have partnered to provide wind farm operators with a whole turbine predictive maintenance solution.