Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions of New Brunswick, which makes safety parachutes for drones, has completed key testing that means the company now adheres to new rules on drone safety.
Based in the Saint John suburb of Rothesay, AVSS issued a statement on Tuesday saying its parachute has completed the world’s first ASTM F3322-18 parachute recovery system testing. This testing is now needed for commercial operations of a DJI M300 RTK drone in the USA, Europe, and India.
AVSS makes parachutes that can deploy when drone engines fail or drone operators lose control, with the goal of preventing