Experienced commercial UAV operator Phoenix Air Unmanned (PAU) announced in early January that it had used a single Event 38 E455 fixed-wing VTOL aircraft to complete a 320 mile pipeline patrol in just 7.6 flight hours for Shell Pipeline Company...

Although the rapid proliferation of small UASs for both consumer and professional use is a sign of a healthy and growing market, it would be a mistake to overlook the long-term implications of their obsolescence. Failure to manage these technologies...

The global decline of insect populations has sparked alarm across scientific and agricultural communities. With pollinators like bees disappearing at an unprecedented rate and traditional pest control methods proving increasingly unsustainable...

Developed by ISS Aerospace in Chieveley, Berkshire, in England’s Thames Valley, the Sensus L is a modular heavy-lift multicopter built to handle demanding, data-intensive tasks in a variety of industries. Initially created to tackle oil giant Total’s METIS programme...

Founding a new trade exhibition and conference is among the riskiest business ventures out there, but after the doors opened to the AUVSI’s first official Xponential Europe event (co-located with the European Drone Forum), it quickly became clear across...

Until around ten years ago, manufacturers of electric drones were generally stuck with using hobby-grade ESCs (electronic speed controllers) for control of their electric motors. Such low-quality components frequently suffered from issues such as poor transient...

As we have often heard over the years, it makes little sense for car makers to boast of a new model having the most powerful engine ever, or any other singular parameter or achievement, if they have forgotten to make the components work together at the system level....

We featured Michigan-based Strange Development in 2020 (see Issue 33), for its two-stroke, inline, two-cylinder, spark-ignited REVolution engine, integrating a rotary exhaust valve (REV) to leverage forced induction when adjusting its dynamic compression ratio...

Autonomously crossing the world’s great oceans is a challenging undertaking, but one made easier when uncrewed systems engineers have a large budget to work with, as the last few years have proven. But managing such stable, fault-free and persistent...

With the advent of uncrewed logistics solutions in air, and on land and sea, it pays to understand there are fundamental differences between what logistics operators need of their UAS, and what conventional UASs (designed most often for imaging-based work) bring to the table...