Air New Zealand teams with ST Engineering for drone aircraft inspection

Air New Zealand has teamed up with ST Engineering to trial the use of drones to inspect aircraft. The drone inspection trials take place at a facility next to Changi Airport in Singapore where Air New Zealand aircraft undergo heavy maintenance checks. ST Engineering has developed an unmanned drone system, known as DroScan, which sees a drone take a planned route around the outside of an aircraft to inspect its surface and produce high definition images. These images are processed using a software with smart algorithms to detect and classify defects, which aircraft engineers can review and confirm, or carry