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32 'Germany' stories January 2018 - May 2019

Successful test City-ATM (Unmanned Air Traffic Management) system in Germany

Haye Kesteloo May 21 2019 - 10:47 am PT

Last month, German researchers successfully tested an Unmanned Air Traffic Management system that coordinated two drone flights in the area of Köhlbrand Bridge in Hamburg Germany. The City Air Traffic Management (City-ATM) project successfully demonstrated two drones cooperating with each other while executing a bridge inspection, amid active shipping and roads traffic. The Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt or German Aerospace Center in partnership with various industrial and academic parties performed the test as part of a study for the future use of drones in urban environments.

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Flights briefly suspended at Frankfurt Airport after drone sighting

Haye Kesteloo Mar 25 2019 - 11:22 pm PT

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Flights briefly suspended at Frankfurt Airport after drone sighting

Last Friday flights to and from Frankfurt Airport in Germany were briefly interrupted after a drone was spotted in the area. According to the Associated Press, operator FraPort halted takeoffs and landings at Germany’s busiest airport for 29 minutes as a precautionary measure late Friday afternoon. As with the recent drone scares at Gatwick, Heathrow, and Newark Airport, no evidence of any drones was provided by the Frankfurt Airport officials. It will be interesting to see if any proof will surface in the coming days.

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How DJI’s products are used in the shooting of the Amazon Prime Original series “You Are Wanted”

Haye Kesteloo May 18 2018 - 11:36 am PT

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How DJI's products are used in the shooting of the Amazon Prime Original series "You Are Wanted"

Earlier today DJI posted a video on YouTube that shows you the ‘behind-the-scenes’ of the Amazon Prime Original series “You Are Wanted” and how DJI’s technology is used. The crew uses the DJI Inspire 2 drone with a Zenmuse X7 camera and the DJI Ronin 2 camera gimbal to achieve creative and surprising shots that otherwise would have been much more difficult to capture. The video is in German but if you activate the English subtitles it will be quite easy to follow.

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Fewer drone incidents than expected in Germany in 2017. Remarkable given the popularity of the devices

Haye Kesteloo Apr 18 2018 - 5:35 pm PT

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Fewer drone incidents than expected in Germany in 2017 given the popularity of the devices

The Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) air traffic authority in Germany said that incidents between drones and commercial jets in 2017 rose less than expected considering how popular the unmanned aerial devices have become. However, airlines around the world did express their concerns about drone incidents, which resulted in the International Air Transport Association backing efforts by the United Nations’ aviation agency, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to develop a global drone registry as we reported earlier today.

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Lawmakers in Germany could soon approve the country’s first armed drone

Haye Kesteloo Apr 5 2018 - 11:05 am PT

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Lawmakers in Berlin could soon approve the deployment of armed drone for the Bundeswehr. German defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen is to forward a €25 million EUR ($30.7 million USD) placeholder petition to the defense committees for a program to lease a number of Heron-TP drones from Israel. The entire contract is valued at around €1 billion EUR.

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Meet Festo’s semi-autonomous Bionic Flying Fox with a wingspan of more than 7 feet

Haye Kesteloo Apr 4 2018 - 12:47 pm PT

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Meet Festo's semi-autonomous Bionic Flying Fox with a wingspan of more than 7 feet 000f

Festo’s Bionic Flying Fox has a wingspan of more than 7 feet and is almost 3 feet long, but weighs only a little more than 1 pound (580 grams). This semi-autonomously flying fruit bat is a bio-inspired drone that has been developed by the engineers of the German automation company.

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Drone Racing League and BMW to build the fastest racing drone [video]

Haye Kesteloo Mar 15 2018 - 5:46 pm PT

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It seems that all of a sudden car manufacturers are becoming interested in drones. Mercedes-Benz is testing with drone deliveries in Zurich. Porsche has a drone in their latest EV commercial. Ford participates at the FAA UAS Symposium and would like to sell you a drone with your next F150 pickup truck. And now BMW is involved in developing the fastest racing drone in a partnership with Drone Racing League (DRL). It makes you wonder who will be next?

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German engineering brings us the flying bathtub drone

Haye Kesteloo Jan 5 2018 - 5:52 pm PT

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German engineering brings us the flying bathtub drone

Check out these Germans, the Real Life Guys. They have made a manned bathtub drone. The project started out a few months ago when they ended a video with the question whether their next project should be a flying bicycle or a human drone. In the end, they did both.

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