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Drone Deploying Sterile Mosquitoes Could Stop Spread Of Insect-Borne Illness

According to a proof of concept experiments conducted by a multi-institutional research team, drone deployment of sterile mosquitoes could accelerate efforts to control their populations and reduce insect-borne disease. Mosquitoes are a public health hazard around the world, spreading infections like malaria to millions and causing countless deaths and health… Read More

Delay To EU Unmanned Aircraft Systems Implementing Regulation

On Friday 5th June, the European Commission delayed the applicability date of the European Union Unmanned Aircraft Systems Implementing Regulation 2019/947 until the 31st December 2020. This decision supersedes the previous delay applied by the UK Government. This therefore means that the Implementing Regulation will now become applicable within the UK on… Read More

Ten Reasons To Insure With Coverdrone

Coverdrone is a comprehensive aviation insurance product for both the commercial and recreational drone industry, offering bespoke protection. Below we have highlighted ten reasons why thousands of drone operators choose to insure with Coverdrone, and why you may wish to consider us at your next renewal… Flexible Policy Periods Coverdrone… Read More

Drones For Agriculture Case Study

Meticulous Research, an Indian based research organisation, has created an industry forecast which predicts that the global agriculture drone market’s worth will reach a massive net worth of $5.19bn by 2025! Why Such A Huge Growth? Forecasters from the research group have explained that the growth within this market… Read More

Coverdrone’s Free Flight Examination Drone Insurance Policy

Did you know that we offer a free, one day, flight examination policy? A policy that has proven to be extremely popular since the launch in 2018, is our free flight training cover for clients going through any flight examination with any NQE within the UK. Once registered with Coverdrone,… Read More

How Drones Can Monitor Explosive Volcanoes

As volcanoes are difficult to access and are high risk to collapse of explosion, the imaging of active volcanoes has so far been a great challenge in volcanology. However, researchers around Edgar Zorn from the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ in Potsdam, are now presenting the results of a series… Read More

Drone Industry Starts To Fly Again

Over the last few weeks, it has been a quiet time for the industry, with the majority of commercial work being halted due to current pandemic and recreational users not being allowed out to fly freely. However, with the government’s latest guidelines announced at the weekend, it appears that the… Read More

DJI Reveals New Matrice 300 RTK & Zenmuse H20 Series

Earlier today, 7th May 2020, DJI released their new commercial drone – the Matrice 300 RTK and the Zenmuse H20 Series – a hybrid multi-sensor camera. The drone manufacturer announced that ‘they have engineered this all-in-one, high-tech solution to expand possibilities and exploit areas of work that have never been explored before, for precise… Read More

In The News: Beyond Visual Line of Sight Flights (BVLOS) Takeover

Over the last few weeks, it is becoming more and more apparent that BVLOS flights are increasing, with news articles consistently mentioning a successful operation. We thought that we would combine the stories that we have seen recently below! UK’s First BVLOS Drone Inspection Trialled AmeyVTOL has successfully trailed the… Read More

Update to Coverdrone Flysafe App With Fantastic Additional Features

Today we are extremely excited to announce that our Coverdrone Flysafe App, which is free to all drone pilots, launches with a new update with fantastic additional features. In partnership with Altitude Angel, the team have been working hard to develop our mobile app, which continues to help commercial and… Read More

The Drone Industry – How The Coronavirus Has Prompted Surge In Use

It has become an unfortunate reality that many industries are suffering severely as a result of the coronavirus-induced lockdowns that are now in place across the world. However, drone companies are seeing a surge as the technology is being adopted by governments. Around the world, governments and healthcare providers have… Read More