Patrick Egan

Jun 24, 2024 | suasnews.com | Patrick Egan

*If you want to know my position on the non-ban and or just want to poach my solutions, scroll down now. Lots of braying on the boards; without them Chinese Communist Party subsidized dronesNew China Life Insurance VC Bling Oh, golly, I’ll be out of business. Or, as the heartstring tuggers like to frame it, we won’t be able to save lives or any of the other applications we as a community have known about for at least fifty-plus years.

Jun 17, 2024 | suasnews.com | Patrick Egan

I’ve been glued to my computer this week, watching all of the mudslinging, arguing, public lobbying and name calling going on around the issue of Chinese drones. I’ve seen people making borderline threatening remarks about Rep. Stefanik; I’ve seen people blaming Skydio and BRINC for all of this, and I’ve seen people prognosticating the end of the drone industry. I, for one, think the reports about our industry’s death are greatly exaggerated.

Jun 5, 2024 | suasnews.com | Patrick Egan

Fort Worth-based Galaxy Unmanned Systems LLC (GUS) aims to chase the historical first circumnavigation of the world by airship completed one hundred years ago. We are rapidly approaching the historical centennial of National Geographic Society Gold Medal Winner Hugo Eckener for his achievement of piloting the first airship flight around the world at the helm of the famous Graf (Count) Zeppelin (LZ-127).

May 9, 2024 | suasnews.com | Patrick Egan

The answer is as plain as the nose on your face. Stop trying to pound the post-Cold War twentieth-century square peg through the twenty-first-century globalized supply chain round hole. If you want USA drones, you need a domestic “commercial” ecosystem robust enough to support engineering and innovation. If you don’t like that approach, read the Chinese government website for tips on developing a new economic and technological superpower. The Silicon Valley VC snake oil flights are not working.

Apr 24, 2024 | suasnews.com | Patrick Egan

The new guy is much smoother and more energetic than the Big Wynne. AUVSI has another chance to get with the program and advocate instead of obfuscate for its members. I wish the association the best of luck with the new direction. Revisionist history and misremembering historical details are rampant. I usually avoid the keynotes because it is hard not to yell BS out loud during some presentations. Some have suggested to me in the past that it could be considered rude.