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A few weeks in the past, the DroneLife staff was approached by a DJI Spark pilot who was involved that quite a lot of folks had been watching on as their new Spark fell out of the sky for no cause. At the time, we went via the DJI discussion board …

CNN Aerial Imagery and Reporting (CNN AIR), the media large’s drone division, is the primary group to get a Part 107 waiver for flight over individuals for “closed-set motion picture and television filming.” CNN was required to show security to the FAA earlier than receiving the waiver, which “allows CNN …

Plenty of controversial drone trade points will be discovered throughout the textual content of a single article from our colleagues at sUAS News, titled ‘Don’t be Evil DJI‘. We’re nonetheless attempting to get to get a grip on precisely what the purpose of the piece was. But a quantity of …

NEO on the set of Game of Thrones Game of Thrones, the HBO sensation from the books of George R.R. Martin, premiered season 7 final night time, a season which options footage filmed with the NEO drone from Dutch firm AceCore Technologies. The drone segments had been shot final winter …

Drone cell tower inspection – picture courtesy of Measure Drone CEOs left the White House feeling bullish after assembly with POTUS and senior administration officers the place, within the phrases of a type of current, “[we got] a voice with the new administration to discuss commercial drone regulations, where we …

The response to John Taylor’s FOIA request asking the FAA for information that point out the leisure drone registration program was ever used to implement rules is the most recent level of debate within the argument over this system. By now, everybody within the drone communitiy is aware of about …

Drone pilots working in compliance with part 336 of FAA Modernization and Reform Act aren’t required to register their plane. This part applies to plane used solely for leisure and passion functions. The textual content of the part could be discovered on the hyperlink under. Users in compliance are certified …

Facebook Aquila on runway In a current notice on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, introduced the primary profitable flight of the Aquila drone, a big photo voltaic powered UAV that has been in growth for two years. The flight occurred in Yuma, Arizona. The long run aim of the UAV …

It’s that point of yr once more – when Congress begins to contemplate FAA Reauthorization (the final extension made expires this fall.)  Last week’s announcement that Rep. Bill Shuster had re-introduced the AIRR Act as “The 21st Century AIRR Act” was no shock, coming after President Trump’s vocal help for …

Flyability’s drone for inaccessible locations While China dominates a lot of the drone manufacturing dialogue, and a brand new drone software program and information firm appears to seem day by day within the US, Europe’s drone doesn’t all the time get the play it ought to.  But with many European …