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COVERED LIST

FCC Covered List Doesn't Ground Your Drone. Repair Waits Do.

A Commercial UAV Expo panel spent the morning correcting the word ban. What bites operators is parts, repair queues and six to nine week lead times.

Haye KestelooSep 1

Alteon founder Samay Sanghvi seated in front of the company's fixed-wing dynamic-soaring aircraft

India

Alteon Raises $2.5M To Fly A Drone For A Year On Ocean Wind

Bengaluru startup Alteon raised $2.5 million led by Lachy Groom to build a drone that harvests ocean wind shear and stays aloft for over a year.

Haye KestelooSep 1

An XTEND multirotor drone in flight with a multi-sensor payload mounted under the airframe

Department of Defense

XTEND Hits the NYSE Friday Before the Pentagon Scores It

XTEND AI Robotics starts trading on the NYSE as XTND on September 4. The Pentagon has not yet scored the Gauntlet II contest the valuation rests on.

Haye KestelooSep 1

A WB Electronics FlyEye fixed-wing reconnaissance drone suspended above a WB Group trade-show stand, gimbal camera under the nose.

Poland Plant Fire

Poland Probes Sabotage After Fire At Drone Plant Supplying Ukraine

A figure on camera, a fire at 12:23 a.m., and Poland's ABW at the plant that builds drone parts for Kyiv and Warsaw.

Haye KestelooAug 31

SwissDrones staff in red company shirts pose in rows behind a red and white SDO 50 unmanned helicopter inside the hangar at the company facility in Buchs, Switzerland

Industry

SwissDrones CEO Exits On LinkedIn As Leadership Splits Three Ways

Ulrich Amberg is stepping down as SwissDrones CEO after six years, and the company is dividing his job among three executives as it pushes into the US.

Haye KestelooAug 31

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's former defense minister, photographed against a dark blue backdrop

Defense Tech

Fedorov Offers The US A Drone Fleet For Patriot Missiles

Ukraine's ousted defense minister is in Washington offering drone help for Patriot interceptors, days after taking an unpaid advisory job in Rome.

Haye KestelooAug 31

Delivery

Cleveland Clinic's Drone Pharmacy Runs 20 Deliveries A Week

Cleveland Clinic's Zipline prescription drone service is flying about 20 deliveries a week from four aircraft in Beachwood, with charging room for 12.

Haye KestelooAug 31

A Quantum Systems Vector eVTOL reconnaissance drone staged in the field with Quantum Systems branding behind it.

Industry

Quantum Systems Says CIA-Backed Fund Opened Its US Doors

Co-CEO Sven Kruck says In-Q-Tel and other US investors opened Washington doors, helping the German drone maker land CIA and FBI work.

Haye KestelooAug 31

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