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More than 800 reside spectators and greater than 45,000 on-line watched as The Generals, considered one of Pro Aerial League’s six skilled drone racing groups, received the League’s 2017-18 season championship final weekend. Drone racing may be a type of sports activities that’s superior and thrilling for contributors, and fairly …

A visitor put up by Kittyhawk Co-founder Josh Ziering. This is the second FAA UAS Symposium I’ve attended and the distinction between the two has been so dissimilar that it appears like I may have a waiver. This yr the symposium drew nearly double the variety of attendees with effectively …

Aeon Unmanned The largest identify in drone racing has introduced a collaboration with Aeon Unmanned to assist Part 107 coaching. The International Drone Racing Association (IDRA) will associate with Aeon Unmanned to assist the Colorado firm’s Part 107 Academy, a one-week coaching program for industrial drone operators. It’s not a …

Another participant in the flying taxi area has emerged in the type of Cora, the primary private transport automobile from Kitty Hawk, Google co-founder Larry Page’s aviation firm.  Kitty Hawk – to not be confused with the favored drone software program firm – has unveiled the Cora and introduced that efforts …

The following is a visitor publish by gifted Part 107 Pilot and writer, Kara Murphy. It’s been a terrific honor to jot down for DRONELIFE. This 12 months, I’ll be sharing How-To recommendation on all features of advancing your self within the drone . When it involves doling out sensible, …

Leading drone airspace administration platform AirMap has introduced that David Hose will turn into CEO of the corporate.  The firm’s co-founders, Ben Marcus and Greg McNeal, will stay in lively roles in firm operations. AirMap has been a fast-moving success story since its inception in 2015.  In his put up …

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 …

Drone expertise is evolving at an unimaginable tempo today, however few new bulletins actually supply a extremely game-changing – or work altering – characteristic.  This one is totally different.  A couple of years in the past, the flexibility to create a map from drone knowledge in actual time would have …

A dramatic video bouncing across the web reveals an FPV pilot flying instantly above a touchdown passenger airplane heading into land at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas. The footage has been broadly shared and condemned by the group. In this business, it doesn’t take a lot to kick off a …

The AMA has launched an announcement strongly condemning the drone operator who allegedly flew over a passenger jet touchdown at McCarren International Airport in Las Vegas. The FAA is investigating the incident, which hit the information after the video under was posted on-line.  The drone operator has not but been …