Jacob Taylor - CEO Indigenous Aerospace; Darian Edwards, Indigenous Air Mobility Specialist, Canadian Advanced Air Mobility; Kimble McComb, Drone Advisor, Moose Cree First Nation; and Jo-Anne Tabobandung Dean of Aviation, First Nation Technica

Safe and Efficient Data Collection in Challenging Environments

Apr 19th, 2023 8m 2s

Justin Simkins, a Technical Specialist from Emesent, joins us this week on how Hovermap is creating a new industry standard in autonomous lidar mapping. Justin discusses Emesent's SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) based lidar system

Drone Market Trends and Investment Perspectives with Kay Wackwitz, CEO of Drone Industry Insights and Abhinav Singhvi, CFO of Volatus Aerospace

Aug 25th, 2022 40m 55s

What are the current trends in the drone market? What do investors think about the drone industry? How do the answers to these questions impact the drone industry and how do we bridge the gap between positive market trends and investor confiden

Remotely Piloting Beyond Visual Line of Sight Near an Active Airport with Optical Detect & Avoid and No Visual Observers

Aug 10th, 2022 8m 55s

Richard Podolski, VP of Flight Operations, talks in-depth about the recent SFOC granted to Volatus Aerospace by Transport Canada to remotely pilot a drone using Remote Flight Control System (RFCS) software and optical Detect and Avoid (DAA) wit

Delegate for Transport Canada, Nigel Waterhouse, Discusses the Integration of Large Autonomous Drones into the National Airspace

Jul 12th, 2022 10m 1s

While at CanSec, we sat down with Nigel Waterhouse, Delegate for Transport Canada, to discuss the challenges and nuances between autonomous passenger flight, remotely piloted passenger flight, and uncrewed cargo delivery when it comes to integr

Ali Dian, CEO of Aerovel, Discusses the Defense and Commercial Applications of Flexrotor

Jul 11th, 2022 22m 43s

Designed by Dr. Tad McGeer, the inventor of the ScanEagle (a UAV that defined a whole new group of military aircraft), the Flexrotor from Aerovel is a vertical takeoff and landing autonomous aircraft with a pedigree that predates most commerci

Task Force Drone Provides Canadian Veterans the Training to Start a Second Career

Jul 7th, 2022 9m 2s

Colonel (ret'd) Michel Latouche, leader of the Veteran Training Program, Task Force Drone, speaks about the challenges veterans face when retiring from the military and how becoming a drone pilot can be a fulfilling second career that leverages

Stories from Ukraine: Brothers & Sisters in Arms

Jun 24th, 2022 13m 54s

We speak with Lieutenant Colonel Melanie Lake about what it has been like witnessing the Russian invasion of Ukraine after serving with Ukrainian soldiers as a commander during Operation UNIFIER from March to October of 2021 and how that experi

Stories from Ukraine: Evacuation

Jun 22nd, 2022 4m 39s

What does it take to evacuate a family from Ukraine? What are the dangers involved? We spoke with a gentleman, who in order to keep his family safe has asked to remain anonymous, about what it took to not only get his family out of Ukraine but

An Industry First: Elizabeth Police Department Obtains BVLOS Waiver for Drone as a First Responder Program in Class B Airspace with Paladin's Knighthawk

Jun 16th, 2022 24m 52s

Divy Shrivastava, Founder and CEO of Paladin, joins us again on Stories from 400 Feet to talk about working with the Elizabeth Police Department in New Jersey to obtain one of the first Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) waivers in Class B air

Partnering to Bring Drone Solutions to Latin America: Interview with Bruno Leoni, CEO of EOLO

Jun 8th, 2022 9m 48s

Latin America is an important emerging market for drone applications, but to understand its needs, culture, and regulations across many different countries requires a combination of demonstrated experience and local knowledge. We spoke with Bru

Iowa State University's Geology Dept. Uses Drones for the First Time to Study Earthquakes with the Help of Pacific Triangle

May 27th, 2022 23m 33s

What determines when an earthquake will happen or not? Slow-Slip Events are relatively minor movements that don't cause massive disruption like earthquakes despite having similar elements. Subduction, the process of a plate sliding under anothe

Defining Autonomy, Automation, & BVLOS: An Interview with Andy Lacher, Chief Technologist for Future Airspace Operations – Intelligent Flight Systems, NASA Langley Research Center

May 20th, 2022 40m 25s

Andy Lacher is currently the Chief Technologist for Future Airspace Operations in the Intelligent Flight Systems organization at NASA’s Langley Research Center where he works on the safe operational integration of new aviation technologies. His

By Adding a Position Sensor Inside Their High-Performance Propulsion System, IQ Motion Control Offers OEMs Better Position Control and Advanced Health Monitoring

May 18th, 2022 6m 29s

By embedding a position sensor inside their propulsion system, IQ Motion Control is enabling better position control and safety protocols and advanced health monitoring that eliminates the need for a swashplate. We spoke with Co-Founders Jon

Rethinking the Mailbox to Make Way for Drone Delivery

May 16th, 2022 4m 57s

We spoke with Dan O'Toole about drone delivery infrastructure and how reimagining secure mailboxes is an essential element to scaling autonomous package delivery.

If Your Drone Crashed, Would You Be Covered? Choosing the Right Insurance to Protect Your Assets

May 16th, 2022 9m 4s

If your drone crashed, would you be covered? This is a question every end user and drone pilot should be asking before starting a mission, because finding out afterward is too late. Crashes can be costly and dangerous, and you want to be protec

Talking About Tethered Drone Applications with Troy Hittle of Elistair

May 16th, 2022 9m 20s

We asked Troy Hittle, Managing Director of North America for Elistair, what can you do with a tethered drone? More than you think. Tethered drone solutions are starting to get more traction as industries look for 24/7 overwatch solutions, but,

How Sky Ladder Conquered the Mission Impossible Bridge

May 13th, 2022 44m 28s

You've inspected one bridge with a drone, you can inspect them all, right? If only that were true! Unfortunately for inspectors, engineers and architects have deployed multiple designs and materials in the building of bridges all over the world

Inspired Flight Talks About Blue sUAS, Supply Chain Management, and End User Maturity

May 12th, 2022 7m 10s

In this episode, Adam Bilmes, Director of Sales at Inspired Flight, talks about Blue sUAS and their American-made drone, being prepared to handle supply chain disruptions, the growing maturity and savvy of end users, and what this all means for

Law Tech Connect Program at AUVSI 2022 Brought Attorneys and the Drone Industry Together Like Never Before

May 12th, 2022 8m 57s

Back in 2019, Dawn Zoldi, Founder and CEO of P3 Tech Consulting LLC, had a vision to bring attorneys and the drone industry together to network and share knowledge. In 2022 at AUVSI XPONENTIAL, she finally got to realize that dream. After atten

An Italian Drone Inspired by Mother Nature that Can Takeoff and Land from the Water: EuroLink Systems' Beluga

May 11th, 2022 10m 48s

We spoke with Pietro Lapiana, President of EuroLink Systems, about the inspiration and applications of their elegantly engineered Beluga Drone. Built for both defense and commercial applications, the Beluga is capable of taking off and landing

Building a Safety Culture that Can Move at the Speed of Technological Innovation: Why Communication Is Key

May 10th, 2022 9m 48s

David Krause, Co-Founder of Influential Drones, has been working in technology for over 25 years. Influential Drones is a sales, training and aerial service provider. Dave provides consulting and the company is a volunteer Industry Member with

Where Are We With Type Certification and How Will This Enable Life-Saving Medical Deliveries?

May 10th, 2022 7m 32s

Chris Corgnati, President of MissionGO, speaks about the current status of Type Certification for uncrewed systems and how this ties into the work they are doing with MediGo delivering life-saving organs and other critical medical supplies.

Making Drone Flights Safer: Tracking Single-Point Failures Through a Systems of Systems Approach

May 9th, 2022 4m 26s

Drones are considerably smaller than most crewed aircraft. This means that in order to fly, they can't be weighed down by multiple redundant components, making it more likely to have single-point failures - a component/system that, should it fa

Enabling Commercial Industry to Leverage the Full Potential of Drones: Interview with Steve Coulson, Founder and CCO of COPTRZ

May 9th, 2022 9m 39s

We often talk about a "drone industry" but really there are a number of industries that leverage drones to make operations faster, safer, cheaper, and better. But finding the right platforms and sensors, getting the right talent to conduct mis