Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Auto Drone Deicing System Coming in 2019
The compact system is designed to use minimum power to achieve deicing.

Norway's Ubiq Aerospace is launching a drone deicing system that should be ready for commercial customers in late 2019 or early 2020, CEO Kim Sorensen told AIN yesterday. While Ubiq has not set a price for the system, Sorensen said it will be cost effective and that Ubiq is looking for manufacturing partners on the carbon-nano thermal panel components of the system and to address any industry certification standards. He said the design is CANaerospace (Controller Area Network) compliant and designed to work with established vehicle communication protocols. The patent-pending system began tests aboard a NASA Dragon Eye in 2015.