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V-TOL Commences Battery Manufacturing to Secure its QA & Sovereign Capability
V-TOL has commenced manufacturing its own Lithium-Ion battery packs in a move towards increasing it’s quality assurance and technical sovereign capabilities. The key benefits are directly visibly for many aspects of the drone industry as a whole: “Reliability of supply and quality of product are will be critical to ensuring the next generations of battery
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IP Australia Certifies V-TOL Rota-Fix™ Design
V-TOL Aerospace’s innovative approach to developing the Rota-Fix™ drone for attaching Balmoral Rotamarka™ safety devices to electrical infrastructure has now been certified as a new & distinctive design by IP Australia. This acknowledgement is great news and of significant value for V-TOL Aerospace as we take this technology global, says Mark Xavier, CEO & MD
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Balmoral Engineering Certifies V-TOL Rota-Fix™ as Preferred Drone installer of Rotamarka™
After three years of close collaborative development, testing and deployment, and despite the challenges of COVID, Balmoral Engineering working closely with V-TOL Aerospace and Energy Queensland (EQL), has certified V-TOL’s Rota-Fix™ Drone installation solution for the placement of Rotamarka™ on electrical infrastructure. Balmoral’s Rotamarka is designed to deflect birds, low level aircraft, and potential ground based
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Eagle Hawk III Regular Flight Trials Continue
V-TOL and NearSat’s Eagle Hawk trials continue. The aircraft performs well above expectations. So our goal to achieve flight within the stratosphere is within close reach. As a result of these tests, we are running training. With the goal to equip specialists and pilots with the skills they require. The aim of these flights is
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Eagle Hawk Flight Trials Begin
NearSat and V-TOL have commenced flight trials of the Eagle Hawk III, an above 25kg capable fixed wing remotely piloted aircraft. NearSat, the developer of the High Altitude (HALE) RPAS platform technology, has been collaborating with V-TOL on this project. [su_quote cite=”Chief Remote Pilot Mark Xavier”]The Hawk III is the up-scaled successor to the Eagle
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NearSat Drone Operations
With the help of NearSat Engineers, our team is currently conducting simulated missions. Our goal is to get the best understanding of how the NearSat Eagle Hawk will function at altitudes up to 60,000ft. [su_quote cite=”Chief Remote Pilot Mark Xavier”]Over 3 years the joint team have worked tirelessly. As a result we have seen advances
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Queensland capitalises on strategy to become drone ‘capital’
JOINT STATEMENT Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning The Honourable Cameron Dick Minister for Innovation and Tourism Industry Development and Minister for the Commonwealth Games The Honourable Kate Jones As part of the government’s strategy to make Queensland the drone capital of Australia, the world’s leading minds in drone technology will converge
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V-TOL CEO Speaks on Israel at AFR 2018 Innovation Summit Panel
The Financial Review in association Deloitte held the Australian Innovation Summit 2018 from 30-31 July at the Sofitel Sydney, Wentworth. Sitting to the far right, V-TOL CEO Mark Xavier participated as a guest speaker at the Summit providing personal insights addressing the topic, “Israel the Innovation Nation – what Australia should take on board”. “It
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V-TOL Tests Seeker WeatherSat™ to 8,000ft AMSL
Operating in RAAF Amberley controlled airspace under NOTAM, a V-TOL Seeker WeatherSat™ Multi-Rotor (MR) RPAS platform has been successfully flight tested to 8,000ft AMSL. The WeatherSat™ is a reusable scientific instrument designed to capture real-time weather modelling information that will be used for enabling NearSat HALE operations. CEO of V-TOL, Mark Xavier says, “The WeatherSat™
