New program launches students’ careers in drone aviation

Please enable Javascript to watch this video SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit in San Diego is offering a new program that will launch high school students’ careers in commercial drone aviation. The Good Neighbor Project offers hands-on education, employment opportunities and other activities to improve the quality of life for …

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DJI’s Mavic Mini is So Small You Don’t Have to Register It W…

DJI’s latest drone has arrived. As we revealed earlier this week, it’s called the Mavic Mini. As the name suggests, the Mavic Mini is tiny. It weighs just 249 grams and has very deliberately been designed to squeeze under the registration weight threshold put in place by aviation bodies around …

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Interior Department Grounds Drone Fleet Over Fears of Chines…

The United States Interior Department is grounding its fleet of more than 800 drones over concerns that the Chinese is using the devices to spy or facilitate cyberattacks, according to the Wall Street Journal. There have been growing concerns among military and Homeland Security officials that the UAVs, which are …

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The FAA Restricts Flight Over 60 New Sites: “National Securi…

image: public domain In response to concerns about “malicious drone activity” the FAA has announced new airspace restrictions over 60 facilities – most of them federal prisons.  Reports of attempts to make deliveries to prisoners or otherwise interfere with federal prison operation with drones have increased: earlier this year, a …

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Entire drone fleet grounded by US government agency

Image copyright US DoI Image caption The department manages US natural resources and oversees federal land More than 800 drones have been grounded by the US Department of the Interior (DoI) over concerns they could be used to aid Chinese spying. All the grounded drones were made in China or …

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Drones used to crack down on illegal fishing

YEPPOON-based fisheries officers will have access to drones as a weapon to combat illegal fishing activity despite initial reports indicating they had been excluded from the technology roll-out. Over the weekend it was reported in some media that drones had been deployed to the Gold Coast, Warwick, Noosa, Hervey Bay, …

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