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Drone technology could transform our skies and boost the UK economy by £45 billion by the end of the decade.
Guidance on submitting applications to fly drones within Restricted Airspace at Prisons and Young Offender Institutions, effective from 25 January 2024.
Following initial funding from the Defence And Security Accelerator (DASA) to help get it off the ground, Flare Bright has won contracts from leading aerospace companies, the UK Ministry of Defence and the United States Department of Defense.
Get help to classify drones and aircraft parts for import and export.
Ambition statement and vision for commercial drones, created jointly by government and the sector, outlining the 2030 potential, current use cases and support and enablers for the future.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle flights are successfully flown on the Sellafield site.
Outlines the decision to give the police greater powers to tackle drone misuse and better protect airports.
Find out how SIA licensing applies to someone using a drone.
Drone expert Amanda Smith marked International Women's Day by representing the UK at a global technology conference
Policy proposals for safer use of drones plus powers to police for enforcement.
Vast new ’no-fly zones’ will be enforced over all prisons in England and Wales to crack down on gangs using drones to smuggle drugs, phones and weapons that drive criminality behind bars.
Criminal gangs who try to fly phones, drugs and weapons into prisons using drones face finding themselves there instead under tough new restrictions coming into force today (25 January).
A joint strategy for the industrialisation of emerging aviation technologies in the UK.
Struck trees during aerial survey, Generals Lane, Chelmsford, Essex, 25 April 2019.
Results of a study to test and model the effects of mid-air collisions between drones and manned aircraft.
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