Lifesaving Drone Technology Reportedly Reaches New Milestone

More than 500 people around the world have been rescued from danger by drones, according to new statistics collected by DJI. This milestone came in mid-October, when sheriff's deputies used a DJI drone with a thermal imaging camera to find a missing 93-year-old woman in a dark field in Missouri. Thermal video from the rescue released by the Cass County Sheriff's Office shows how the drone spotted Chris Fairchild as a bright yellow dot in the darkness and guided deputies on the ground to her. "To see that little yellow dot, knowing that that's the person you're looking for, it feels great," drone pilot Major Kevin Tieman told a local TV station. Fairchild was exhausted and had lost a shoe

Latest Avionics Solutions Will Be Progressively Certified

Universal Avionics (UA) has conducted the first successful flight of its Gulfstream G-III aircraft, featuring the latest in interactive Human Machine Interface (HMI) technologies for enhanced head-up/head-down coordination. This milestone marks the transition of UA products demonstrated at trade shows such as NBAA-BACE to an aircraft operational environment, with the G-III becoming an invaluable demonstration resource for business aviation and airline operators.