Drone

Recently we’ve seen some alarming incidents with rogue drones, and we’re rising actually, actually frightened. Wondering what we’re speaking about? Here’s a listing of current incidents: On February 14, a DJI Phantom reportedly contributed to the crash touchdown of a helicopter in Charleston, SC. On February 12, a drone collided …

A display screen seize from Lockheed Martin’s newest VCSi software program that allows operators to regulate a number of unmanned plane sorts working anyplace in the world. Image courtesy Lockheed Martin. (PRNewsfoto/Lockheed Martin) One of the world’s largest protection/aerospace conglomerates is making real-time, built-in air management of a number of …

Dr. Richard Alward is a biologist who specializes in plant ecology. He began utilizing UAVs in his work a number of years again, and holds a Remote Pilot Certificate, which he obtained utilizing Drone Pilot Ground School to assist him put together for the FAA’s Part 107 check. I had …

Drones have helped scientists discover mega colonies of penguins – over 750,000 pairs – in protected areas within the Antarctic Peninsula. The journal Nature reviews that a “multi-modal survey” together with floor counts and laptop automated counts of drone imagery, confirmed enormous populations of Adélie penguins within the Danger Islands …

We are extra excited than we’ve been in a really very long time. Why? Because we simply rolled out a model new model of Drone Pilot Ground School, our on-line take a look at prep course to assist drone pilots put together for the FAA’s Part 107 examination. Using your …

Swiss drone producer Wingtra this week introduced the launch of the WingtraOne PPK (Post-Processed Kinematics) mannequin. Working with photogrammetry software program supplier Pix4D and PPK supplier Septentrio, the corporate says it might now present orthomosaics mapping and 3D fashions “with an absolute accuracy down to .4 inches.” Several trade sectors …

Industrial drone supplier Delair inked a business settlement Monday with UAV gross sales/help agency Frontier Precision that can launch Delair’s first service facilities within the U.S. whereas additionally offering a brand new home gross sales outlet for the French-based firm. Based in North Dakota, Frontier Precision already gives drone gross …

There are loads of equipment on the market for drone pilots. We’ve been by way of lots of them earlier than. Some are designed to prioritize practicality over aesthetics, like lots of the journey circumstances available on the market. Others, reminiscent of prop guards, are there to offer you peace …

Leading U.S. drone platform supplier PrecisionHawk has been working for 3 years to develop its analysis on flight past visible line of sight (BVLOS.)  Now, they’re able to go it on. As a number one member of the FAA’s Pathfinder Program, PrecisionHawk has been flying beneath a BVLOS waiver and …

By James from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (G-JNSH Robinson R22 Helicopter) [CC BY-SA 2.0] The crash touchdown of a Robinson Helicopter R22 in South Carolina final week, reportedly brought on by interference with a drone, has prompted the AMA to challenge an official assertion asking the general public not to soar to …