This study aims to: deepen the understanding — through experimental testing and simulation techniques — regarding the effects of a potential collision of drones in the consumer / prosumer market segment (‘threat’) with manned aircraft (‘target’); identify drone design strategies aimed at containing the risk that drone-aircraft collision may induce on the aircraft and its occupants, and; draft design requirements and test standards for future drones to be put on the market within the EU open category (CE marking) addressing the containment of the above risk.