by Kara Murphy | May 2, 2019 | FAA, News
Yesterday, at AUVSI XPONENTIAL’s keynote in Chicago, Acting Deputy Administrator Carl Burleson announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would make Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) available to an additional 109...
by Kara Murphy | Apr 25, 2019 | FAA, News
It has been a momentous week for drone delivery. Google received the first-ever Air Carrier Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). On Wednesday, Zipline, a San Francisco-based health-tech drone delivery company that launched in Rwanda three years...
by Kara Murphy | Apr 25, 2019 | FAA, News
Earlier this month, there was speculation over who was going to receive the first Air Carrier Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Only one company, Wing Aviation, and offshoot of Google, was listed as an applicant on the U.S. government’s...
by Kara Murphy | Apr 18, 2019 | Inspection, Surveying and Mapping
French drone manufacturer, Parrot, unveiled the ANAFI Thermal this past Tuesday. An updated version of its ANAFI model, released last year, the Thermal version features a 4K HDR camera and 21MP Sony sensor equipped with a FLIR Lepton thermal sensor. A benchmark...
by Kara Murphy | Apr 11, 2019 | FAA, News
While UPS has been busy delivering medical samples in North Carolina, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding another company with a first-of-its-kind commercial license. “In the next month we expect to announce we will have our first”Air...