WavDrone, Ltd. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal Power Industry Corporation has announced that they will begin comprehensive flight testing of its carbon-nanotube drones and drone intercept technologies at Griffis International Airport, formerly Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, N.Y.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Griffiss International Airport is one of just seven\nFAA-designated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle test sites in the United States and is\nresponsible to the FAA and NASA to supervise operations for UAS testing. The\nfacility is part of New York’s 50-mile UAS corridor between Syracuse and Rome,\nN.Y. facilitating beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) testing, thus enabling\nthe safe integration of UAS testing in U.S. airspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although our WavDrone test staff are FAA licensed,\ntesting our advanced technologies in Palo Alto, California would create an\nextra burden due to safety concerns of certain altitudes, distances and busy\nairspaces and would not otherwise comply with existing federal regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Griffiss Airport, a former Air Force base, is located\nwithin class D airspace and has a unique charter from both State and Federal\nauthorities which allows us to perform the full range of tests required to meet\nthe specifications of the commercial and military markets. The facility also\ncertifies equipment to meet the National UAS Standardized Testing and Rating\nverification of conformity with government standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We are very excited to begin testing, as this is\nthe final step before submitting our first of three projects to the U.S. Air\nForce for review and consideration.” Said Mr. Tony Chiu President,\nUniversal Power Industry Corporation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WavDrone, Ltd. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal Power Industry Corporation has announced that they will begin comprehensive flight testing of its carbon-nanotube drones and drone intercept technologies at Griffis International Airport, formerly Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, N.Y. Griffiss International Airport is one of just seven FAA-designated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle test sites in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unmanned-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14294,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293\/revisions\/14294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}