Another day, another drone industry manufacturer is announcing promotions ahead of Black Friday. This time it’s Yuneec, the Chinese manufacturer most famous for the Typhoon range of photography drones. So what’s the deal? We’ve already seen what DJI and Parrot have to offer in a bid to pick up drone sales …

Flyability’s Elios drone DRONELIFE attended The Commercial UAV Show in London on November 14-15, 2018.  It was a great show full of new technology and new ideas for the drone industry.  We asked 3 industry leaders for their perspective on the European market for drones – their answers may surprise you. …

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The following is a guest post by Sasha Rezvina of leading aerial cinematography company Aerobo. Brian Streem and his team have spent four years flying drones for the biggest production houses in Hollywood. In that time, they believe they’ve discovered a fundamental design flaw with how drones are operated. They …

A group of New Jersey farmers have overseen a test flight for an infrared-sensing drone to measure the number of deer around their fields. Peter Furey, executive director of the New Jersey Farm Bureau, says farmers involved in the test seek to graphically document deer on their farms. “The drones …

8 Comments Posted on November 17, 2018 With Christmas right around the corner I thought I would share some drone gift ideas for drone pilots or for that drone obsessed friend or family member that you may be shopping for. Below you’ll find a wide list of drone gift ideas that …

Montana Resources, a unit of The Washington Companies that operates the Continental open-pit copper and molybdenum mine in Butte, Montana, recently partnered with Fairweather IT to bring high-tech to its bird hazing program. Since the mid-1990s, the company has run a waterfowl observation and hazing program at its 182-hectare Berkeley …

Faced with increasing loss of personnel and strongholds, ISIS and operatives from its affiliates, including Boko Haram, are nearing advanced stages in turning ‘civilian’ drones into deadly weapons of warfare, expert intelligence and counter-terrorism evaluations from the United States have warned. A global alert from the US-based Combating Terrorism Centre …

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) – On a recent afternoon, Ian Fairweather, president of Fairweather IT, remotely navigated a six-propeller drone his company designed and built toward an exhausted snow goose that had recently landed on the placid, reflective water of the Berkeley Pit. But the snow goose resisted the attempts to …

Trevor Mogg Every summer, thousands of hikers head to Mount Fuji to embark on what for many will be the most ambitious climb of their lives. At 3,776 meters, Mount Fuji is Japan’s highest mountain, with outdoor enthusiasts attracted by its distinctive volcanic-cone shape and its special place in the …