Police will remain on high alert at Gatwick Airport as staff work through a backlog of cancelled and delayed flights following days of drone-related disruption. Flights were briefly grounded at the airport on Friday evening after a fresh sighting at around 5.10pm, but military measures reassured operators it was safe to reopen …
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CONTINUING BREAKING NEWS: It’s a terrible example of what one bad actor can do. For the third day in a row, Gatwick Airport was forced to cancel hundreds of flights and ruin the holiday plans for more than 100,000 passengers – all due to the appearance of unauthorized drones …
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(Corrects paragraph 7 to show last time drone seen was Thursday not Friday) * Gatwick reopens after 36 hours of chaos * 700 flights to take off on Friday * Drone operators not yet detained * Army and police snipers hunt rogue drones * Pilots union concerned at risk of …
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One of the UK’s biggest airports is entering its third day of complete shutdown due to repeated drone sightings as police and security services struggle to catch the perpetrators — affecting more than 110,000 passengers during the busiest travel period of the year. London’s Gatwick Airport has been closed since …
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A major name in sports brings his business savvy to the skies with Avisight. When my 17-year-old son heard that I was going to interview J.B. Bernstein, his first thought was that I had gotten the name wrong (surely his mother couldn’t speak to anyone that cool.) His second thought …
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DJI has built upon its enterprise range with the launch of another portable drone for commercial operations and first responders. The Mavic 2 Enterprise Dual looks to combine the portability and ease of use of the new Mavic 2 with side-by-side visual and thermal cameras. The result is a drone …
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The army has been called in to help with the ongoing crisis at Gatwick airport, where drones flying near the runway have kept planes grounded for over 12 hours. The airport has been closed since Wednesday night, when the devices were repeatedly flown over the airfield in what police and …
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If the rogue drones flying around Gatwick Airport yesterday were merely out for fun, they chose a particularly bad time to break the rules. During the holiday travel rush, flights were suspended, rerouted and delayed until 3 am Thursday local time at Gatwick Airport in England, due to reported sightings …
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Vanuatu is the world’s first government to contract a commercial drone company to deliver vaccines, according to Unicef. — Reuters pic KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 19 — A one-month-old baby in Vanuatu has become the first person in the world to be immunised using vaccines delivered by a commercial drone, the …
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Telecoms giant Vodafone have completed what they claim is the UK’s first ever drone delivery using a mobile network. Rather than the radio link used to control the vast majority of off-the-shelf models, Vodafone demonstrated how mobile network coverage could instead enable deliveries to remote or distant destinations. The company’s …
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