UAVs

In Operation

Elroy Air Chaparral

Over the past few years, technological maturity among UAVs built for last mile logistics has spilled over into more complex aircraft systems...

Dossier

ULPower UL350i and UL350iHPS

ULPower Aero Engines is a Belgian company best known for designing and supplying power units for a variety of light sport aircraft. Its inception...

Digest

New take on stability

Orthodrone is developing a multicopter technology it calls Pivot, which embodies the radical concept of stabilising the entire fuselage while the propulsion system moves around it to compensate for wind coming from any direction. The purpose of this departure from convention is...

Focus on...

Sense and Simulation

A wide range of testing and simulation strategies are being used to develop...

PS

L-DRIC and Firestorm

A new, blended-reality environment for integrating crewed and uncrewed systems and, separately, a semi-automated...

Show Report

DroneX

Once again, the DroneX trade show and conference made its way to the halls of London’s ExCeL in September 2024...

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Launch & recovery

Despite there being many VTOL-capable UAVs that can take off and land without needing a runway or special equipment...

Insight

Uncrewed platform development funding

Whether from climate change, military conflict or changing work environments, new ideas abound for uncrewed systems...

Dossier

UAVE 120 cc four-stroke

UAVE (pronounced ‘wave’) is a UAV manufacturer and operator that has been active for some time, during which it has accrued an eclectic range of missions and capabilities, flying many extreme environments and advanced payloads with its Prion UAVs. At the centre of all its works has been the DS120, a four-stroke, single-cylinder, spark-ignited engine, unique to this UK-based company and its aircraft. While UAVE does not sell this engine...