Guest Post – Enrico Schaefer (Dronelaw.pro) There are certain mission critical skills that every drone pilot must know in order to get off the ground. Some are obvious. Of course, you need your aircraft, remote controller, payload, Remote Pilot Certificate and you must comply with Part 107 during flight operations. …
Read More »DroneDeploy Unveils Flight Logs Solution to Streamline Regulatory Compliance, Insurance and Fleet Maintenance
DroneDeploy, the cloud-based drone software platform, today unveiled its new flight logs solution, available now with partners: Airnest, Drone Complier, Drone Logbook, Healthy Drones, Kitty Hawk, NV Drones and Skyward. Direct access to actual flight logs enables operators to eliminate the manual data entry process for capturing flight data, and …
Read More »Eurosport Partners with DR1 to Broadcast Drone Races Across Europe and Asia
wp-image-43220″ src=”http://dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-18-at-8.40.46-AM.png” alt=”Screen Shot 2016-10-18 at 8.40.46 AM” width=”290″ height=”248″ srcset=”//dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-18-at-8.40.46-AM.png 381w, //dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-18-at-8.40.46-AM-300×257.png 300w” sizes=”(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px”/>In another sign of the growing interest in and appeal of drone racing, Eurosport today announced its partnership with DR1 Racing, the international drone racing series, to exclusively distribute content for broadcast in …
Read More »Drones, Microsoft Help Fly Police Data Into the Cloud
Microsoft wants to bring law enforcement into the “cloud” and drones can help lift them to new heights. On Monday, the software giant demonstrated Microsoft Cloud for Government at the International Association of Chiefs of Police in San Diego. The software bundle provides secure cloud computing to government agencies and …
Read More »Fly a DJI with the EXO 1 Exoskeleton
Can’t decide between a target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”> target=”_blank”>DJI drone or GoPro’s new Karma? Well, you might just be able to have the best of both worlds. At least that’s the unlikely conclusion of a joint competition sponsored by DJI and 3D-printing service Shapeways. The two tech giants challenged designers to combine …
Read More »British MoD Will Deliberately Crash Drones into Planes – Just to See What Happens
Photo: Lynn Greyling The British Ministry of Defense (MoD) will pay £250,000 (about $304,000) to have drones deliberately smashed into passenger jets, the UK’s Daily Mail reports. The crashes are part of a testing program that the Daily Mail calls “secretive,” designed to show what would happen if a drone collided …
Read More »The Karma and Why Consumer Products Matter to the Commercial Market
Mike Winn, the CEO of DroneDeploy, recently spoke with DRONELIFE.com on a variety of drone matters. We first discussed GoPro’s announcement of the Karma. Winn described the Karma launch as “exciting.” With the Karma, GoPro has created an “interesting product. The bundles they have recreated are part of a system. …
Read More »It’s Here, It’s Real: Ehang Signs Deal to Test Passenger Drone
wp-image-15371″ src=”http://dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/319792.jpg” alt=”passenger drone” width=”346″ height=”193″ srcset=”//dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/319792.jpg 400w, //dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/319792-300×167.jpg 300w” sizes=”(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px”/> The Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) and the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) have partnered with Chinese drone manufacturer EHang to test the passenger drone at Nevada’s FAA UAS Test Site. EHang introduced the …
Read More »Zipline Begins Humanitarian Drone Delivery in Rwanda
wp-image-43139″ src=”http://dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Zipline-Zip-Outbound-1024×506.jpg” alt=”delivery drone” width=”377″ height=”186″ srcset=”//dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Zipline-Zip-Outbound-1024×506.jpg 1024w, //dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Zipline-Zip-Outbound-300×148.jpg 300w, //dronelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Zipline-Zip-Outbound-768×380.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px”/>San Francisco based Zipline drones have begun regular humanitarian drone deliveries to hospitals in rural Rwanda. Through an agreement with the Rwandan government, the company will begin to delivery blood, plasma, and coagulants to hospitals across …
Read More »The Hover Camera is Here (You’re Going to Want One)
In early 2016 Zero Zero Robotics came from nowhere with the announcement of the Hover Camera, the first drone/flying camera from a company that had secretly raised millions of dollars of funding while staying in the shadows. Back in April, Zero Zero Robotics tentatively predicted that it would be ready …
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