The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recently published a new amendment to the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, resulting in juicy new features in the New US Drone Law 2020. This new regulation, carried out after its claim by the US Congress, is necessary for the exponential growth that the service sector is experiencing with drones in the industry, as well as in a…
Inspired Flight has introduced the IF1200, a heavy-lift hexacopter UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) that can carry payloads of up to 8 kg and fly for up to 40 minutes. Featuring an open-system architecture based on the PX4 autopilot, the versatile and flexible platform gives users complete control over the aircraft, providing a complete solution that can be tailored towards a wide…
Drones excel at taking over jobs that are dark, dirty and dangerous – and mapping the sewerage underground electricity tunnels that lie under a city certainly meet that description. Now, a team from Indonesia has demonstrated that it a drone equipped with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) can be used to map assets underground. The uses for this technology are many:…
