WHY THIS SITE MATTERS
The objective of this site is to promote, within the context of the “Global Access Initiative”, the international awareness of remotely piloted systems by making information (brochures, datasheets & photos) concerning aerial, terrestrial and maritime systems and sub-systems available to the interested community. This web site contains a extensive document library, which is freely accessible to all registered visitors.
www.rpas-regulations.com, its sister web site, is dedicated to the promotion of awareness with the international remotely piloted aircraft systems/drone community of RPAS/Drone-related rules & regulations and to make relevant documents from all over the world available.
Both web sites have a very extensive list of useful links.
How can you help
Suggestions & comments on how to improve this site are welcome and should be addressed to Adriaan van Blyenburgh at [email protected]
Visitors to this site are encouraged to email their remotely piloted system-related press releases, brochures, technical brochures, and photos to Adriaan van Blyenburgh at [email protected].
Companies interested in sponsoring the continued development of this site are requested to contact Peter van Blyenburgh
at [email protected].
More information
- Blyenburgh & Co – Introduction – English
- Blyenburgh & Co – Introduction – French
- Blyenburgh & Co – Profile & Activities – English
- Blyenburgh & Co – Information Dissemination
- About the Founder
- Homepage slider advertisement booking form
The story behind the portal
RPS Info grew out of a frustration that anyone who has tried to research this industry will recognise. The information exists, but it is buried – locked inside trade-show handouts, out-of-print yearbooks and manufacturer brochures that vanish the moment a product line is retired. Blyenburgh & Co started collecting that material decades ago and eventually decided the sensible thing to do was put it online and keep it there.
The company sits in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and has spent its working life inside the unmanned systems community: running conferences, publishing the reference yearbook, and tracking the slow grind of European and international rulemaking. That long view shapes the site. It is not trying to chase the latest viral drone video; it is trying to be the place you go when you need something accurate six months or six years from now.
Aerial, terrestrial and maritime – not just drones
Most visitors arrive looking for aerial platforms, and the library has plenty of those. But unmanned ground vehicles and unmanned maritime systems share so much of the same control technology, sensor payloads and regulatory thinking that it made no sense to leave them out. A reader studying detect-and-avoid for a quadcopter will often find the most useful material in a paper written about an autonomous surface vessel.
Everything here is meant to be read alongside the regulatory portal at rpas-regulations.com. The two sites were designed as a pair: one answers “what can this machine do” and the other answers “where am I allowed to fly it”. Both carry long, carefully maintained lists of useful links, which on their own save researchers a remarkable amount of time.
How you can contribute
We rely on the community to keep the library current. If you spot something missing or out of date, or if you have material to contribute, email Adriaan van Blyenburgh at [email protected]. Sponsorship enquiries should go to Peter van Blyenburgh at [email protected]. The introduction and activity documents listed below explain in more detail who we are and what we do.