The British government has decided that it is time to give drones the freedom of the sky with the world’s biggest “superhighway”
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskThe scheme was announced by Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, at the opening of the Farnborough air show on July 18th, as part of a series of measures to boost aerospace innovations. Known as Project Skyway, the 265km drone superhighway will connect airspace above Reading, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Coventry and Rugby over the course of the next two years.
As useful as they are, commercial drones are currently not supposed to be flown beyond an operator’s visual line-of-sight, oras it is known. For long flights this pushes up costs, since ground pilots and observers are required along the route. Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority has authorised someflights without such restrictions, but the procedures can be tortuous and may involve the closing of nearby airspace.
Project Skyway is backed by a consortium of firms, including Altitude Angel, a specialist in automated air-traffic management, which has been testing the idea with an 8km drone corridor in the Thames Valley. Another partner is, which aims to use its telecoms network to link the superhighway to drone operators, who often use apps on mobile devices to fly their machines.Drone operators would need to be registered to use the superhighway.
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