We have Apple products atop our desks, in our pockets and, soon, on our wrists. As if there aren’t enough Apples in our airspace, one man is nudging his favorite company to design a quadrocopter. He’s even taken a stab at designing his dream Apple drone — and was careful to remain faithful to the …
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Want to fly a drone? You may need a RPA licence says the SACAA
Cape Town — South Africa is taking the lead in Africa by joining seven other states at an International Civil Aviation Organisations (ICAO) Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Symposium to discuss how existing aviation rules need to evolve to meet the challenges in order to introduce Drones, as they are commonly referred to — safely …
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Amazon And Google Delivery Drones Will Likely Fly In Europe First
Recent developments in European aviation regulations mean that innovators like Amazon, Google and DHL will likely find a more permissive environment in Europe than in America. That environment makes it increasingly likely that Amazon and their competitor’s first delivery drone flights will be taking place in Europe, not in America. Europe’s claim to drone innovation …
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Drones Invade Hollywood
Four actors jump between rooftops and sprint through sheets drying on clotheslines while a camera tracks them from above, hovering close enough to see their faces. The sequence, filmed in Bogotá for the coming Netflix drug-war series, “Narcos,” was too intimate to capture by helicopter and too intricate to choreograph easily from the ground. Cue …
3D Robotics introduces DroneKit API
3D Robotics has launched its DroneKit open-source Application Program Interface (API) which is intended to help simplify the writing of drone apps. DroneKit can be used to program drones that use the APM flight controller by ArduPilot, giving developers the ability to write a wide range of web-based drone apps, smartphone apps as well as …
Walkera QR X350 Pro (Long Term Review)
In my earlier review of the Walkera QR X350 Pro, I had given my initial impressions of Walkera’s entry-level 350-size quadcopter. Most of it were good but that was nearly three months ago and since then I’ve had some really interesting experiences with it, culminating in a spectacular crash a few days ago which resulted …
Facebook wants solar drone to bring Internet far and wide
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…a giant Internet router? That could be the reaction later this year when Facebook gets its high-flying, wide-wingspan drone off the ground. At its F8 conference on Thursday, Facebook revealed that it had made a first test flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle. That drone, though, was a small-scale …
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Hubsan X4 Pro H109S (Preview)
If you spent money on a Yuneec Q500 or DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ earlier this year, you’d be pulling your hair when you read this news. The long-awaited Hubsan X4 Pro H109S — the quadcopter that got a lot of multi-rotor enthusiasts excited when it was showcased at CES 2015, is now available for pre-order …
Watch this drone herd sheep like a sheepdog
Drones have many potential uses, from entertainment and news to spying and snooping. As they become increasingly more affordable, humans are only going to find more ways to leverage them, like to replace dogs. More specifically, sheep farmer Paul Brennan has figured how to use a drone to do a sheepdog’s job. Introducing Shep the …
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Amazon now testing delivery drones in Canada
After facing endless rounds of red tape in the US, Amazon is now conducting extensive testing of its delivery drones at British Columbia, Canada. According to The Guardian, the e-commerce giant decided to focus its testing program in Canada following repeated warnings that stringent aviation regulations in the US were impeding on its efforts to …
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