Military UAVs are considered a key component and an integral part of a country's defense system. This conducted to new report being added: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Market, By Value and Volume Analysis and Forecast, 2015-2020.
http://www.econotimes.com/Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles-UAV-Market-By-Value-and-Volume-Analysis-and-Forecast-2015-2020-182123
Passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia crashes on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport. All the 55 passengers aboard and seven crew members died.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-crash-idUSKCN0WL036
The 27th annual Women in Aviation International Conference took place last week in Nashville, Tennessee, bringing women with a passion for aviation together from all over the world. The event breaks records with nearly 5,000 participants.
http://www.flyingmag.com/women-in-aviation-breaks-records
The wildlife monitoring projects move from traditional methods to drone technology. The research found that drones are much more precise at monitoring the size of seabird colonies in tropical and polar environments than more traditional ground counts.
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-drones-revolutionize-ecological.html
It’s one of the most famous places in U.S. history, and these clips will probably be the last aerial drone footage ever recorded of Area 51. Hans Faulkner took in August 2015 some footage of the super-secret government base.
http://www.blastr.com/2016-3-14/might-be-last-aerial-drone-footage-ever-recorded-area-51
Drones are the latest policing tool to monitor rowdy spring breakers. Unlike bigger cities with access to helicopters, police in the Gulf Coast resort community decided to add drones to their arsenal because they wanted a way to monitor chaotic crowds from above.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/03/09/the-latest-policing-tool-to-monitor-rowdy-spring-breakers-drones/
Foodpanda hopes to become one of the first takeaway services to start using drones to deliver orders in Hong-Kong markets. The start-up wants to be fully automated after becoming operationally profitable in all its markets in February.
http://www.scmp.com/tech/article/1925091/skys-limit-drone-food-deliveries-foodpanda-eyes-new-hong-kong-markets
Teenager from U.K. wins world drone racing competition, The World Drone Prix, in Dubai. The competition tests the drone's speed and a pilot's agility, with built-in obstacles and tight turns.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/12/470199604/world-drone-racing-competition-underway-in-dubai
The Army wants to equip individual soldiers with drones to give them greater tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities in the field.
https://gcn.com/articles/2016/03/11/soldier-drones.aspx
A video has captured a plane flipping around at a New Zealand airport as it tried to land with one of its wheels missing. The two people on the plane that landed at Hamilton Airport were not injured.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11603427
NASA's scientific balloon team in New Zealand is preparing for the fourth flight of an 18.8 million cubic foot balloon, with an aim to achieve an ultra-long duration flight of up to 100 days at mid-latitudes. Longer-duration flights provide the opportunity for longer observations of scientific phenomena or ability to survey more sources.
http://www.aerospace-technology.com/news/newsnasa-prepares-for-new-balloon-flight-in-new-zealand-4830962
Amazon will lease 20 Boeing 767 freighter aircraft as the online retailer moves closer to setting up its own air delivery network. The company has been trying to make shipments and assume more control over its business and costs.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-air-transport-sr-amazon-com-idUSKCN0WB1LA
New York Drone Film Festival aims to win the public acceptance. The festival showcases the remarkable creative possibilities of aerial cinematography.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-drone-film-festival-aims-win-over-skeptical-public-n532991
On March 6, top-notch drone filmmaking will be on display during an event called “Day of Drones” at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City. There will be demonstrations by drone builders and pilots.
This is one of the latest device promising to protect the world from the impending drone takeover. An operator targets the drone and fires a canister that contains a large net that gets tangled in the drone’s rotors. A parachute then delivers the drone back to earth in a civilized manner.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/the-skywall-100-bazooka-captures-drones-with-a-giant-net/
53-year-old Boeing 727 hobbles from Paine Field to Museum of Flight for display. The refurbished 727 is now repainted in its original United Airlines colors, and will be parked outside the Museum of Flight over the summer for visitors to see
Rescue authorities in Australia are using drones to identify sharks and provide assistance to swimmers threatened by them. The camera-equipped drones were launched as part of a trial program to patrol the coastline of the Australian state of New South Wales.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/29/11132098/australia-drone-shark-attack-little-ripper?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Dramatic video shows a plane swerving off the runway onto the grass after overshooting the runway at Birmingham Airport.
Volvo’s latest research prototype uses a small robot to pick up and empty bins into a rubbish truck, guided by an overhead drone and without the need for humans.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/29/drone-guided-robots-replace-binmen-volvo
Drone aircraft symposium to be hosted to the University of Wyoming. The event will focus in part on how they can be put to use in the state's wide-open spaces and will cover technological developments as well.
http://www.wyomingnews.com/news/university-of-wyoming-to-host-drone-aircraft-symposium/article_dbbbe7a0-dce4-11e5-9ed9-6f47a619f186.html