Drone Delivery Canada (DDC) has secured a $1.2 million contract to provide its heavy-lift Condor drone to Transport Canada, as part of the government’s Innovative Solutions Canada initiative. The contract, which runs until December 2023, will see DDC and Transport…
Drone delivery pioneer, Zipline, revealed its latest aircraft, Platform 2, on Wednesday. Platform 2 combines fixed-wing flight with hovering propellers, allowing a small “droid” to lower packages from 330 feet onto driveways, sidewalks, or other open areas. Since 2016, the…
Japan Post, the country’s postal service, is one step closer to making letter Delivery by Drone a reality. The postal service partnered with local drone manufacturer ACSL in December 2022 to develop a drone with level four autonomy and a…
Amazon’s drone delivery service, Prime Air, has been in the works for a decade, but the company is still struggling with drone regulations and weak demand. Despite its recent launch in two small test markets, Amazon has a long way…
A bill that would make it easier to build drone ports and make it harder for local governments to oppose them is currently being considered by lawmakers in the state of Florida. This development comes on the heels of Walmart’s…
Hi everyone, thanks for stopping by. Today we’re going to check out a payload release system for the DJI Mavic 3 drone. There’s something that I want to try. You know, after you’ve been flying drones for quite a while,…
Wing, the drone delivery company owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced it will expand its autonomous drone delivery system beyond the original test cities of Canberra (Australia), Helsinki (Finland), Christiansburg (Virginia, US), and the Dallas-Fort Worth area (Texas, US).…
A man from Montreal found a large package containing cannabis, cell phones, and other contraband hanging from his clothesline, which he believed fell from a drone. “Personally, I would have preferred to win an amount with Loto-Québec!” said the man…
All right. This week in drone news, we have three stories for you. The recreational LAANC is finally enabled for night flights. That’s a big deal. Freefly Systems is grounding a bunch of their aircraft, and then Spright gets nationwide…
Walmart said that with 4,700 stores spread across 90% of the US population, it can now offer “drone delivery at scale” because 90% of the US population lives near at least one of its stores. Over the holidays, Walmart’s drone…
This week in Drone News, we have three stories for you. Amazon and other Drone Companies are laying off employees. This is sad news, a follow-up on a crash that happened between a drone and a Cessna 172. There’s more…
Today, we learn that Amazon Prime Air, the drone delivery business, laid off around 80% of its flight operations personnel without a proper warning. According to a now-former Amazon employee, personnel in all of Amazon’s drone delivery business locations, including Lockeford,…
