Cape Town – The City of Cape Town is sitting on 15 drones it purchased last year, waiting for licences from the Civil Aviation Authority, whose complicated application process is hampering the rollout of the technology to fight crime. (By Marvin Charles) The City is only in phase one ofRead More →
State-owned broadcast signal distribution company Sentech is in the market for autonomous drones to patrol South Africa’s borders. Sentech envisages a fleet of drones in a meshed network that co-ordinate with towers on the ground to spot illegal activity and alert operators. Ideally its drones will be capable of otherRead More →
After operating in stealth mode for the last four years, San Francisco-based Xwing said in a news release last week it has carried out a number of passenger-carrying flights from take-off to landing remotely using a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan. Xwing’s Auto-flight System retrofits existing aircraft into optionally piloted vehicles byRead More →
There are now a number of heavy-lift cargo drones on the market, and they pretty much all incorporate six to eight horizontal propellers. The Avidrone 210TL is different, though, in that it goes with two sets of full rotor blades. Manufactured by Canadian start-up Avidrone Aerospace, the 210TL essentially takes the formRead More →
