We wish to congratulate our chief pilot, Jordan Kendall, on passing his Instrument Rating Exam last week!

The Flamingo Mk3, configured to conduct airborne inspection of the electrical power grid in Brazil, has received certification to conduct BVLOS operations out to 48km.

This year, we had the privilege of being involved in a Defence led exercise to examine the potential for autonomous systems to support Defence while operating in coastal environments.

Last week we sat down with the team from Energias do Brasil after discussions in Amsterdam and the MOU was signed.

Last week we headed over to the Netherlands to attend the Amsterdam Air Show. While we were there we were able to catch-up with the Energias do Brasil team and discuss some exciting new ventures for the future.

We have been talking to our friends over at Energias do Brazil, a Brazilian electric utility company, and what they have been up to over the last few months.

We recently went to the Avalon Air Show held in Victoria to speak at the AAUS Conference on who Silvertone are as a company, what we do and what our capabilities are in area of UAVs.

The Flamingo Mk3 successfully completes data collection trials with the Riegl VUX-1 UAV Lidar for Mondo, one of Australia’s leaders in metering, mobile and spatial technology solutions for the utility and transport industries.

The VUX1-UAV Lidar is used for mapping and creation of 3D point cloud data in various applications.  This and similar Lidar are being used on manned aircraft for commercial operations all over the world. 

Exercise AUTONOMOUS WARRIOR 2018 (AW18) was a combined Navy (FIVEYS) and DSTG-led autonomous unmanned systems exercise conducted in Jervis Bay near Sydney in November 2018.