General
NEWS
- FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen to Join eVTOL Aircraft Manufacturer Archer Aviation
- Yes, you can buy your own delivery drone capable —and it’s capable of carrying 5 kgs
- One small landing for a drone
- Chesterfield man charged after drone being flown over football match (UK)
- Drone Delivery Over the Hudson River: NUAIR and NYNJ Port Authority Deliver Girl Scout Cookies to Demonstrate
- Drone Surveillance Case Goes to Michigan Supreme Court
Announcements
- 2023 drone report needs your responses (and there are lots of prizes if you help out)
- 2023 Embedded Vision Summit! - May 22-24, Santa Clara, CA
- Censys Launches Nationwide Road Show: See Leading U.S. Manufactured BVLOS Fixed Wing - May through July
- Meeting Photogrammetric Accuracy Standards: Free Webinar from SimActive, with Specialist from DAS Geospatial - Thursday May 25
- Women and Drones Global Awards. Nominations Open - Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. on October 25th
- Utah Aeronautics Conference - June 20-22, 2023 - Davis Conference Center, Layton, UT
Public Safety and Commercial
- FRNSW remote pilot aircraft (RPAS) assists engineers and demolition experts – Surry Hills
- Everdrone and Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex collaborate to initiate drone delivery of emergency medical equipment in the UK
- In-time waypoint or point of interest reach with UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía 4D trajectory
- Airsentinel Launches Drone Detection App that Works (and Respects Drone Operators)
- North Carolina’s Civil Air Patrol Invests in 10 New Drones for Emergency Management
- The Systems that Support Drone Flight Beyond Visual Line of Sight: DeTect’s HARRIER BVLOS
FAA Information and International Regulatory News
- UK CAP 2538 – Considerations for Aerodromes and Vertiports planning to operate Vertical Take-off and landing Aircraft (VTOL)
- Counter-UAS Use Cases Wanted for FAA Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC)
- USA DOT – Request for Information on Advanced Air Mobility
- Transport for West Midlands drone team launched to help tackle traffic congestion and keep the region moving (UK)
- Pro Tips for UAS Pilots - Wednesday, May 24, 2023, starting at 19:00 Central Daylight Time
- Who Owns the Airspace Over My House? The Chicken Farmer Case, and Advocating for Reasonable State and Local Drone Regulations
For Drone Beginners and Current Flyers
- T-Motor :- How to maintain a drone motor? How to know your drone motor needs to be replaced?
- Ask Drone Girl: How do I get my daughters interested in drones?
- High School Students Can Get a UAS Certificate This Summer – For Free! Vaughn College STEM Summer Camps
- Airspeeder and Celeros Team Up for Next-Level eSports Racing
- Can a drone livestream a yoga class?
- Is your drone flight Remote ID compliant? Here are the 4 types of legal drone flights
Interesting Tech to Watch
- Dronamics Cargo Drone Takes First Flight, Paving the Way for the Future of Deliveries (Bulgaria)
- UAVOS And Bayanat enter a partnership for the supply of Autonomous helicopters
- Resolute Eagle
- What’s the Weather Up There? Meteodrone Flies at High Altitude to Get Precise, Real-Time Weather Forecasts
- Estonia Establishes Drone Sandbox: ANRA Technologies to Provide U-Space and CIS Tech
- DroneUp Tests Wonder Robotics “WonderLand” Precision Landing Solution
Military
- Elroy Air demonstrates autonomous cargo-handling capabilities of Chaparral aircraft at Travis Air Force Base
- uAvionix RT-2087/ZPX Miniaturized Transponder Selected for Tactical Resupply Unmanned Aircraft Systems
- Army Awards FTUAS Option 1
- SeaGuardian Used by USN in Support of Integrated Battle Problem
- GA-ASI Delivers First New-Build MQ-9A to USMC
- QinetiQ to deliver unique Banshee Jet 80+ target system to US Army
Drone Security
Drone Organizations
Aerial Filming with 4K Camera Drones
Thermal Vision Cameras Explained
Drone Add-ons
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LIPO Batteries
- How to Safely Dispose of LiPo Drone Batteries
- Making batteries - (Tesla video)
- How long do LiPo batteries last, and how do I know if an old LiPo battery is safe to use?
- LiPo Battery Basics--Storage
- How do lithium-ion batteries work?
- DOT Ruling Bans Lithium-Ion Batteries As Passenger Airlines Cargo