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  • Nation’s First “Hybrid” Drone Passenger Vehicle Receives FAA Approval for Advanced Flight and Road Testing

     A California-based company has just received FAA approval to begin testing its new passenger drone vehicle in the real world.  The company, ALEF, claims it’s the first air taxi company to receive such FAA approval.  Big news, right? Well, not quite.  ALEF’s “flying car” isn’t the first passenger drone vehicle to receive a “Special... Read More

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  • Chile and Brazil Are Fueling Latin America’s Surging Drone Industry

    The Latin American drone market is beginning to surge, and two countries – Chile and Brazil – are leading the way. Chile’s main drone focus is the nation’s prodigious mining industry, one of the largest and most lucrative in the world.  Everything from copper to manganese and bauxite ore is mined in Chile.  The work... Read More

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  • Drone Upstart Real Time Robotics (RtR) Has Placed Vietnam on the Global Drone Map

    Asia is the world’ fastest growing drone market, occupying a 24% share compared to just 12% a year ago.  China, India, South Korea and Japan are witnessing the fastest growth rates but even smaller countries like Vietnam are experiencing significant spurts, owing to a combination of design technology ingenuity and the sheer determination of its... Read More

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  • Indianapolis Police Department’s Drone Program Continues to Soar

    Indiana consistently ranks in the top 10 among US states whose law enforcement departments have acquired drones.  And no Indiana city has acquired more police drones or deployed them for more purposes than the Hoosier state’s beloved capital of Indianapolis. The IMPD first expressed an interest in drones nearly a decade ago, and after some... Read More

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  • NASCAR Finds a New Role for Drones on Its Race Tracks

    When NASCAR first discovered the world of drones two years ago, its avid embrace soon transformed the world of aerial race car photography.  Today, FPV racing drones closely track the progress of cars around the track, flying at speeds of 85-95 mph, providing viewers with dazzling close-ups of drivers and their vehicles engaged in fierce... Read More

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  • Volarius, DJI Drones and Road Vehicles Are Patrolling the Border Together

     US Border Patrol has a new friend:  A DJI M300 drone that can provide real-time aerial surveillance of both sides of the border, filming continuously.  The drone, with its limited battery power, can’t perform this mission alone.  Now, thanks to Volarious, a Singapore-based drone services company, it doesn’t have to. Volarius has designed a... Read More

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  • New “Spray Drift” Technology Can Assess Accuracy of Drone Pesticide Use

    The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has led to important technological and operational advancements in the management of farms.  With drones, what was once tedious and time-consuming field work, often requiring long hours in the hot sun using expensive difficult-to-recruit farm labor, has become a fast, efficient and cost-effective process that makes farming more... Read More

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  • How Did Marilyn Monroe Make It to Hollywood? On the Wings of Drones

    America’s most beloved – and notorious – sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe, didn’t get her start, professionally, in Hollywood.  Her first full-time job was at a military production plant at the height of World War II.  At the tender age of 18, she was hired to spray fire retardant on the parachutes used to drop explosives... Read More

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  • IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Manal Habib, CEO and Founder of the Drone Start-Up Mighty Fly

    Women are making great strides in the drone industry, especially when it comes to owning and flying their own drones. But men still overwhelmingly dominate the ranks of drone company owners.  Are there exceptions? A few. One is Manal Habib, CEO and founder of Mighty Fly, a San Francisco based drone startup founded in October 2019.... Read More

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  • Chinese Companies Are Pioneering the Development of “Transmedium” Drones

     Some drones fly; other drones swim.  Is it possible for a single drone to do both? Several Chinese companies are currently in the forefront of developing drones that can launch from the water and become airborne or plunge into the watery depths from the sky. These “transmedium” drones could one day revolutionize the way... Read More

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