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New FAA Data Offers Insight on US Drone Industry Growth
Last month, the FAA released its updated Aerospace Forecast (2020-2040), an annual report that updates key metrics behind all aspects of the US aerospace – including U.S Airlines, General Aviation, Commercial Space and UAS. Last year’s forecast brought widespread attention to the acceleration of the UAS industry, but this year’s forecast mostly went unnoticed as the COVID-19 pandemic has … Read more
FAA May Be Off Target With Forecast For Threefold Growth In Commercial Drones
There’s some good information in the FAA’s new five-year Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) forecast, but there are reasons to doubt the accuracy of the agency’s projections in two areas that have captured attention: the claims that there will be roughly threefold growth in the numbers of commercial drones and UAS-certified pilots. Here’s the good, the … Read more
New Commercial Drones Report: Current State of the U.S. Industry
UPDATE: September, 2016. This report has been updated to include the latest market trend and FAA Part 107 rules I just released a new research report. It details the state of the commercial drone industry in the U.S. as of the end of September 2015. It looks at recent innovations, business applications, key ecosystem companies, and market forecasts. It … Read more
Drones Revolution Means Big Data Cloud Services
I love drones. No, not the big high-altitude ones like the Predator Drone, I mean the smaller low-altitude ones like Aeryon, Flexrotor, Phantom, and PrecisionHawk, that do everything from 3D mapping, to cinematography, to forensic inspections, to precision agriculture. I love making, programming, and piloting small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAVs), and over the past several years I have … Read more
The Yellow Brick Road of FAA Drone Regulations
This post provides a few helpful links to get you started on the journey of understanding Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations for UAS. Come back later and look for updates. There are three basic categories of UAS operations as defined by the FAA – LINK Public. This includes public entities such as federal and local governments, … Read more