Reno, NV, June 23, 2016– Unmanned aerial cloud-seeding reached a new milestone through the successful integration and deployment of 14 ejectable cloud-seeding flares at low altitude. In several test passes, Drone America’s Savant™ sUAS aircraft deployed its silver-iodide cloud-seeding payload 75 feet over the Hawthorne Industrial Airport’s runway with direct supervision from local fire [...]
June 21, 2016- Today the Federal Aviation Administration announced their first operational plans for routine commercial use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The plans include updates to FAA airworthiness certification requirements, remote pilot in command and operation limits. For the complete release and info : VISIT FAA NEWS
In an education partnership event with Aerospace Learning Xperience (ALEX), Drone America and ALEX hosted an aerospace day for a 6th grade class from St. Albert the Great Elementary School at the ALEX Facility in Stead, Nevada. The event featured flight simulations, hands-on drone flying with Drone America staff in their Aviary drone cage, and one-on-one [...]
RENO – For the first time in aviation history, a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft has successfully tested a cloud-seeding payload during an experimental flight in Nevada. Flown at Hawthorne Industrial Airport under the state’s FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Test Site designation, the Drone America Savant™ aircraft reached an altitude of 400 [...]
Media invited to STEM aviation event at Drone America RENO- Media are invited to attend a special STEM aviation event on Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 hosted by the Desert Research Institute and Reno-based unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) manufacturer Drone America. DRI’s GreenPower K-12 Outreach Program will introduce students from Dilworth STEM Academy to Drone America’s [...]
Discovery Channel Canada featured Drone America in a segment about autonomous cloud seeding on Feb. 26, 2016. As the first phase in a new industry-academic research partnership between the Desert Research Institute (DRI), Drone America, and AviSight, the test flight of a DAx8 multi-rotor aircraft with attached cloud seeding cargo validated the potential for UAS [...]
Reno-based KRNV Channel 4 News did a segment on the cloud seeding research partnership between Drone America, DRI and Avisight. The unmanned flight test was the first of its kind. As the first phase in a new industry-academic research partnership, the test flight of a DAx8 multi-rotor aircraft with attached cloud seeding cargo validated the [...]
A team of Nevada scientists and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) engineers have successfully flight tested the first-ever autonomous cloud seeding aircraft platform. Cloud seeding flare tests were deployed from Drone America’s DAx8 UAS aircraft flown in Reno in late January. As the first phase in a new industry-academic research partnership between the Desert Research Institute [...]
Drone America participated in this year’s Aerospace Day at the Discovery Museum. The company had three unmanned systems on display-the DAx8, Phoebus Mk.III and the Ariel Scooper Drone. All three showed patrons how UAS’s are different and how each one can be used for specialized applications and situations. “It’s always great having our UASs on [...]
Drone America and Flying Tiger Aviation will be participating at the 49th Annual National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) Convention & Exposition in Savannah, Ga. on Dec. 7-10. Drone America will be displaying professional UAVs and other technologies that will help support and grow the agriculture industry at booth # 244. Several members of the Drone [...]
