by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Aloft (formerly Kittyhawk) has announced today the introduction of the new Notify & Fly feature for FAA’s B4UFLY app on iOS and Android. The new feature, live in the app today, provides users with a simple and easy way to let other drone pilots know that they are flying in the area. By anonymously submitting via the app, users are … [Read more...] about Notify & Fly: Aloft Launches New Capability for B4UFly App
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Kittyhawk Changes Its Name but Not Its Mission: Introducing Aloft Technologies Inc.
Airspace awareness and UTM platform provider Kittyhawk changes its name to Aloft Technologies, Inc. Kittyhawk began in 2014 to enable the burgeoning drone market: it seemed appropriate to the founders to pay homage to the origin of manned aviation as they embarked on a project tackling the next frontier of flight. Now, the company has grown and evolved: "the market leader in … [Read more...] about Kittyhawk Changes Its Name but Not Its Mission: Introducing Aloft Technologies Inc.
B4UFLY Web: Kittyhawk Announces Enhanced Desktop Functionality
Kittyhawk CEO Jon Heagranes announces the newest advances in B4UFLY, the FAA and Kittyhawk.io airspace intelligence tool: B4UFLY Web. "B4UFLY Web enables convenient pre-flight planning, airspace advisory social sharing, and more," says the announcement. As we clock in at processing over 14K LAANC authorizations in January 2021 — 50% of all … [Read more...] about B4UFLY Web: Kittyhawk Announces Enhanced Desktop Functionality
New Version of B4UFly App Released Today: Localized Advisories, Crowdsourcing
FAA development partner Kittyhawk is releasing a new version of the B4UFLY app. The newest version adds localized advisories and crowdsourcing for the U.S. drone airspace. "Coinciding with the FAA’s Drone Safety Awareness Week, Kittyhawk is releasing a new update to B4UFLY that adds a new layer of localized advisories with the ability for the largest community of drone … [Read more...] about New Version of B4UFly App Released Today: Localized Advisories, Crowdsourcing
LAANC Use Accelerates: Kittyhawk Reports All-Time Record Levels of Activity
Despite the current COVID crisis, there has been a lot of good news from the drone industry lately - and one is that LAANC use is accelerating. This piece of positive data comes from drone operations platform Kittyhawk, developers of the FAA's first mobile app, B4UFly. In a blog post, Kittyhawk CEO and Co-founder Jon Hegranes says that activity has hit record levels: … [Read more...] about LAANC Use Accelerates: Kittyhawk Reports All-Time Record Levels of Activity
