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Apr 30, 2020 - Nice to be recognized by the wonderful town of Malden, MA as one of its best tech startups - two years now in a row!
Aizawa Concrete Partners with Heavy Lift Long Range UAV provider ‘Top Flight Technologies’ for Proactive Road and Bridge Aerial Inspection and Repair
May 29, 2019 - Aizawa teams up with Boston-based aerospace company to scale commercial UAVs for road and bridge network inspection and repair throughout Hokkaido and Japan
Hyundai Motor Partners with Top Flight to Take Future Mobility to New Heights
Nov 14, 2018 - Hyundai teams up with Boston-based startup to accelerate commercial application and deployment of UAVs across various sectors and markets.
Disruptor Daily: Top Flight Technologies Disrupting Agriculture with Hybrid Energy-Powered Drones
Jan 17, 2018 - Top Flight's Dr. Paul DeBitetto, VP Software Engineering and Autonomous Systems, focused on alternate power solutions, hybrid energy, to extend flight times and payload, a game changer for prescriptive agriculture applications of extremely large farms.
National Defense: Top Flight Airborg 10K Going Underground - The U.S. Government's Hunt for Enemy Tunnels
Jan 02, 2018 - Engineers at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory have been working on a new technology for the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization - JIDO. It includes an Airborg 10K unmanned aerial system developed by Top Flight Technologies.
Disruptor Daily: 10 Great Companies Shaking Up the Agriculture Industry with Drones
Dec 22, 2017 - Facing paramount challenges of producing enough food to feed an ever-growing population on decreasing arable land, farmers are in need of smart farming technologies. Farm drone applications are constantly emerging and expanding the range of possibilities.
Energy & Mining International: Top Flight Technologies hybrid-powered Airborg H8 10K aims to impact Energy & Mining industrial applications0K
Dec 15, 2017 - Top Flight’s newest innovation, the industrial-strength Airborg H8 10K, is a larger drone (2 meters in diameter tip to tip) that can perform bigger jobs, and address challenges of battery drones and maintenance associated with all gasoline drones.
Boston Voyager: Meet Dr. Long Phan of Top Flight Technologies in Malden
Oct 30, 2017 - A Boston introduction to Top Flight Technologies to Dr. Long Phan, the Founders, team, the mission, the technology and product solutions the Company is bringing to a global world of extended flight, enhanced payload and powerful UAVs.
Construction Today: Top Flight Technologies aims to impact many industries with its powerful hybrid electric drone, the Airborg H8 10K
Sep 13, 2017 - Top Flight’s newest innovation, the industrial-strength Airborg H8 10K, is a larger drone (2 meters in diameter tip to tip) that can perform bigger jobs, and address challenges of battery drones and maintenance associated with all gasoline drones.
Reuters: Hybrid drone hits the gas to go heavy duty
Aug 24, 2017 - A hybrid gas-to-electric drone flies longer and stronger. Top Flight Technologies says its Airborg 10K drone is heavy-duty ready and can fly up to 3 hours carrying 20 lb. (4 kg) of cargo.
MIT News: Hybrid drones carry heavier payloads for greater distances
Aug 04, 2017 - Startup’s gas-electric engines may pave way for package delivery and human flight.
Top Flight Technologies Airborg™ H8 10K UAV with Hybrid-Power System Delivering Extended Flight, Enhanced Payload Capacity and On-Board Computing Ready for Global Customers
Jul 12, 2017 - For UAVs it is all about power to address industrial-strength commercial applications. The Top Flight Airborg™ 10K can fly 3+ hours, carry up to 21 lbs, and has 10KW of on-board computing power.
NIKKEI: The CEO's Dream - Becoming a Leading Company in Flying Cars - Dr. Long Phan Interview
Jul 03, 2017 - Interview with Dr. Phan illustrates a long-term passion to develop flying solutions ultimately leading to the creation of Top Flight Technologies and its proprietary hybrid-powered engines that can address the power needs of future flying cars.
NIKKEI: Names Top Flight Technologies' Hybrid-Powered Engine in Solving Power and Payload Challenges for Flying Cars
Jun 12, 2017 - This premiere Japanese magazine points to hybrid-powered engines (gasoline plus electricity), as being produced by Top Flight Technologies, to surmount the lack of power available in battery-only solutions to address the needs of future flying cars.
Computer World: 5 Challenges Confronting Enterprise Drones
May 15, 2017 - The drone market is not taking off as expected. Here are five factors inhibiting adoption by enterprises.
Ultra High Efficiency Halbach Motors
Mar 15, 2017 - Top Flight Technologies, with our partner IIMANII™, is proud to offer an initial product line of Ultra High Efficiency Halbach Motors (UHEHM1™ series)
The Battery Energy Density Revolution
Feb 09, 2017 - Dr. Sanjay Sarma (MIT & Top Flight Co-Founder) introduces the promise and challenges of rotorcraft drones because of energy production, energy management, and energy storage today.
The Verge: Top Flight sponsored MIT team wins SpaceX’s Hyperloop competition, and Elon Musk made a cameo
Jan 30, 2016 - Top Flight is proud to be a sponsor of the MIT engineering team that won the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition.
DataFox Digest: The Top 7 Boston-Area Startups to Watch in 2016
Dec 09, 2015 - DataFox crunched the numbers to find the 7 early-stage startups located in and around Boston poised for a breakout year in 2016.
Top Flight Technologies aims to impact many industries with its powerful hybrid electric drone, the Airborg H8 10K
Dec 09, 2015 - DataFox crunched the numbers to find the 7 early-stage startups located in and around Boston poised for a breakout year in 2016.
Top Flight Raises $1.75 Million in Seed Funding; Move to Commercialization of UAV Hybrid Propulsion Airborg Product
Nov 27, 2015 - Financing led by ff Venture Capital will fuel product development and customer beta program
BostonInnov: Here Are 10 Boston-Area Drone Companies to Watch
Oct 21, 2015 - Boston's drone industry is still young, but there are already a number of interesting ventures in the works
Bloomberg Businessweek: Technology Innovation - Hybrid Drones - May 11-17, 2015
May 11, 2015 - Bloomberg Businessweek Writer Michael Belfiore illustrates and explains Top Flight Technologies' mid-class hyrid propulsion system UAV capabilities.
DIY Drones/Chris Anderson: Hybrid hex uses gas/electric combo to get 2.5 hours flight time
May 02, 2015 - Chris Anderson, CEO, 3D Robotics, blogs about Top Flight's Hybrid Propulsion MIT Technology Review and ability to enhance flight time and payload.
NIKKEI: Drones Could Fly People Within Three Years
Apr 15, 2015 - Having removed the barriers of extended flight and enhanced payloads companies like Top Flight Technologies can move beyond applications like Amazon delivering packages to drones carrying people in the next 3 years.
Popular Mechanics: Hybrid Power Could Let Drones Fly for Hours
Apr 03, 2015 - For the drone revolution to really take off, the flying machines will have to fly longer than the half-hour-or-so that today's batteries allow. Top Flight has the solution - hybrid power drones.
Next Big Future: Hybrid gas electric drone has 13 times the range of a battery electric drone
Mar 19, 2015 - Top Flight Technologies is the first company to successfully demonstrate true serial hybrid power integration into multi-rotors at industry disruptive price points removing the challenge with endurance and extended payloads for multi-rotor UAVs.
MIT Tech Review - A Hybrid Quadcopter Flies Further
Mar 18, 2015 - A new hybrid gas-electric aircraft could make drone delivery more practical. The Top Flight Technologies the six-rotor drone can fly for more than two-and-a-half hours—or 160 kilometers—carrying a payload weighing nine kilograms.
Boston Globe - Wild West in the Skies
Feb 27, 2015 - Last year, funding for peacetime drone startups topped $100 million. But it’s an industry still in the Wild West phase, waiting for the Federal Aviation Administration to adopt rules to allow the commercial use of drones.
