Your guide to drones.
Since the first models featuring it appeared last year, altitude hold has become all the rage in the toy drone segment. The feature that was once available only in more expensive drones such as the DJI Phantom 3 is now slowly becoming a standard key feature in all toy drones. Altitude hold 101: a feature …
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Last Friday, a pilot who was landing at Wheeler Airport near Kansas City spotted a drone and reported it to air traffic control which then notified local police. KSHB Kansas City reported that a police helicopter was sent to investigate and eventually spotted the drone. However, the drone managed to escape. The pilot, who was …
Last Friday, a pilot who was landing at Wheeler Airport near Kansas City spotted a drone and reported it to air traffic control which then notified local police. KSHB Kansas City reported that a police helicopter was sent to investigate and eventually spotted the drone. However, the drone managed to escape. The pilot, who was …
Monday evening, as Chopper 7 covered a fire in a Spanaway salvage yard, KIRO-TV Chief Photographer Scott Crueger turned the camera toward another helicopter taking video for KOMO-TV and KING-TV. A drone was flying above it. “We got a drone out here somewhere,” Crueger alerted colleagues in the newsroom. He guessed the drone was flying …
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Chris Wright is a problem solver. Her clients come to her with an issue, a question, a mystery, and she figures out the best way to find the answer – using whatever tools she can. “I use a combination of new technology and old technology, because I have to solve a problem. So I’ve used …
The man who was responsible for the recent drone crash at the White House will not be charged, according to a statement by the US Justice Department yesterday. Shawn Usman, who is a federal employee, caused international headlines in January when a DJI Phantom quadcopter he was piloting crashed at the South Lawn of the …
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved Amazon’s request to begin testing its drones in rural areas of Washington state — a move many see as the first step towards making commercial delivery of packages by drones a reality in the US. Amazon was issued an experimental airworthiness certificate which allows the company to fly …
While Amazon.com Inc. and Google Inc. aim to use drones to ship packages to customers—an exceedingly complex task—one Silicon Valley startup says there is an easier way to deliver with drones. Matternet Inc. is working on creating networks of delivery drones that fly on largely fixed routes between base stations. The system can serve as …
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When shopping for a drone, you will inevitably reach a stage where you have to decide on what type of camera gimbal to choose from. Drones with camera gimbal systems typically come with 2-axis or 3-axis brushless gimbals and which type of gimbal you choose depends on what you plan to use it for. A …
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A drone has been used in a daring night-time attempt to smuggle drugs and weapons into a high security jail. The plan was only thwarted when the machine became entangled in razor wire on a security wall and was then spotted by staff at Bedford Prison. It is the first known case of a remote-controlled …
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