Your guide to drones.
Long before Amazon drones begin zipping around American suburbs delivering everyone’s same-day air packages, we might get to watch unmanned aerial vehicles climbing the Swiss Alps to drop emergency medical supplies. Earlier this week, the Swiss Post and Swiss WorldCargo began jointly testing the practical use of delivery drones in the country’s rugged alpine terrain. …
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They’ve turned the tides of wars and flown over farm fields dusting crops. Now, drones are transforming into something brand new: sporting equipment. California’s State Fair is hosting the first-ever U.S. National Drone Racing Championships, reports CBS News correspondent Carter Evans. The games get underway on a Sacramento soccer field Thursday, featuring 120 pilots from …
An Australian man has blitzed an international drone racing competition taking out first prize in three events to bring home more than $15,000 in prize money. Chad Nowak from Brisbane won the freestyle, team and individual champion races at the inaugural US National Drone Racing Championships in California last week. The competition featured FPV racing …
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There’s a drone for just about everything these days from delivering pizzas to going to war, but a new unmanned aerial vehicle may save your life from a looming hurricane. The 13-pound Coyote drone developed by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fly into parts of a tropical cyclone that no manned …
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Facebook on Thursday said it is ready to begin test flights of a high-altitude drone designed to provide Internet access to remote locations of the world. The Aquila drone has a wingspan on par with that of a Boeing 737 jet; weighs less than a small car; can remain aloft for three months or so, …
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The commercial promise of drones has been limited by their short battery lives and propensity for flying off. Now some companies believe they have a solution: tie the drones to the ground. So-called tethered drones use ultrastrong-but-lightweight cables connected to the ground to provide power, a data link and a physical restraint. That gives them …
DJI has turned up the heat again in the mid-range consumer drone market with the release of its most affordable Phantom 3 ever — the new Phantom 3 Standard. This brings the number of models in DJI’s popular Phantom 3 lineup to three which includes the Professional, Advanced and the new Standard. Retailing at $800, …
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Ever since Syma released the venerable X5C in 2013, it quickly became the standard by which all other sub-$100, 230mm-sized toy-grade quadcopters were compared against. The X5C quickly gained a large following thanks to its stability, affordability and ease of use. Roughly a year after it was released, Syma came up with the so-called upgraded …
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The Yuneec Typhoon Q500 4K is causing quite a stir among drone enthusiasts, and is celebrated as “no toy quadcopter” but rather a “serious piece of aerial filmmaking equipment.” Building on the highly popular Q500 platform which was released late last year, the Q500 4K brings all the best from its predecessor with some extra …
What happens when you inject the Syma X5C-1 with steroids? You get the X5SC-1, the latest model in Syma’s highly popular X5 lineup. The new X5SC-1 has some improvements over its predecessor and comes in two other variants — the X5S which is the non-camera version and the more advanced X5SW which sports a camera …
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