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BVLOS Commercial Drone Flights Launch at Grand Sky

Nick Zazulia

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018

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BVLOS Commercial Drone Flights Launch at Grand Sky

Grand Sky President Thomas Swoyer in front of an MQ-1 Predator. Photo courtesy of NINE18 Photography

Grand Sky Drone Park at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota kicked off the country's first approved beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) large commercial unmanned aircraft system (UAS) flight operations Monday. To mark the occasion, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson was present in addition to North Dakota politicians and representatives from partners General Atomics, Harris [HRS] and the Northern Plains UAS Test Site."Companies that want to come and test and develop aircraft or systems or sensors or anything like that, it…

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