Drone News: Dragan Fly Heavy Lift, Wing's larger drones, DJI Lobbies against ASDA, Man caught flying contraband, one year of PI stickers

In this week's drone news; DraganFly has released a drone with a
66lb payload and a 55-minute endurance, Wing is creating a fleet
of larger drones to carry different items, DJI is lobbying
against the American Security Drone Act, a man was caught trying
to fly contraband into a prison, and one year of Pilot
Institute's Free stickers!





DraganFly has introduced a cargo drone with a payload of 66lbs
and a range of 19 miles.


The heavy lift drone uses LTE for fully autonomous flights with
an up to 55-minute endurance.


In addition to package delivery, the heavy lift can be equipped
with a new long-range LIDAR unit to map large areas.


https://dronexl.co/2022/07/13/draganfly-heavy-lift-cargo-drone/





On the topic of larger drones, Alphabet’s Wing is expanding the
size of its drones.


“Just as the ideal vehicle for carrying a ton of gravel would be
a dump truck rather than a sedan, the ideal aircraft to carry a
bottle of medication is not the same as the best one to deliver a
gallon of milk, and neither is suited to deliver a refrigerator,”
Wing CEO Adam Woodworth.


https://dronexl.co/2022/07/19/contraband-heavy-duty-drone-texas-prison/





DJI has hired lobbying firms in an attempt to persuade congress
not to back the American Security Drone Act.


This would prohibit the government from buying drones made by
Chinese firms or other companies that could be a national
security risk


DJI is already on the Entity list and on the Chinese
Military-industrial complex list.


https://archive.ph/Ijb8J





A Texas man was arrested in Houston after trying to use a heavy
lift drone to drop a bag of contraband into a prison.


The contraband included wire cutters, money, smartphones, and
tobacco.


Charges agains the man included two counts of improperly flying
and aircraft, each carrying up to 3 years in prison.


https://dronexl.co/2022/07/19/contraband-heavy-duty-drone-texas-prison/