Greenlight for drone corridor in Kenya
There will now be a drone highway in Kenya, after the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) approved a proposal by the Konza Technopolis Dev…
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Wingtra’s new WingtraRAY drone: Built to break survey limits
Swiss drone-based survey and mapping services provider Wingtra has launched the WingtraRAY, a new drone that the company says offers a wider…
UNICEF drone academy to expand into more African countries
Having witnessed the positive impact made on the lives of more than 1,000 graduates in the five years it has been in operation, the African …
Insurance company to sponsor whizzkid's drone pilot's licence
Having launched with the main mission of inspiring the African commercial drone landscape to raise to the levels of the biggest markets in t…
Brazil university develops drones for environmental monitoring
Researchers at the University of São Paulo’s São Carlos Engineering School (EESC-USP) are developing drones equipped with gas sensors an…
Wingcopter on survey drone operations
German drone logistics provider Wingcoper’s co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Ansgar Kadura recently set down for an interview with Dr…
Matrice 400: DJI unleashes beast for enterprise applications
Drone maker DJI has released the DJI Matrice 400, a product that already looks and feels like a lower atmosphere beast for enterprise indust…
JOUAV launches fourth drone dock system
Chinese industrial-grade VTOL drone manufacturer JOUAV is on drone dock number four now. The internationally recognised maker launched it…
US start-up launches agric drone with large payload capacity
It is now year six since German aviation company Volocopter and agriculture behemoth John Deere promised us the VoloDrone, a crop-spraying u…
Modern regulation: What Africa need to drive the drone industry forward
An international drone legislation expert has sighted South Africa as an example of how drone laws can severely set back industry gains if t…
The drone start-up looking to disrupt DJI dominance
If Silicon Valley-based drone start-up Sifly was planning to challenge DJI’s hegemony on the North American civilian drone market, they ha…
XAG moving into Brazil, Southeast Asia
Chinese precision agriculture solutions provider XAG is stepping up its expansion efforts, with recent launches of its flagship agricultural…