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Drones play an important role on many U.S. farms and more farms than ever are using them heavily, research shows. For example, a survey conducted in 2018 found that more than four-fifths of all US farms with drones deployed them at least once a week; almost a third used them daily. What tasks did they... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:The “dogfight” may be the quintessential aerial contest waged between warring pilots. But is it one in which an unmanned or remotely piloted drone can also compete and win? The Pentagon actually tested the dogfight concept back in the 1970’s with remotely piloted drones, not the autonomous AI-supported aerial vehicles that exist today. Back then,... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Marketers know that kids are an important demographic. Kids have purchasing power in their own right but they also influence their parents’ buying decisions – and they’re tomorrow’s adult consumers. Reach them early and they’ll be buying your brand for years. Do the same basic marketing principles apply to drones? You bet they do. With drones... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Drone industry watchers have debated for years how vulnerable their aircraft are to being hacked. Some opportunistic companies have promoted dire and unrealistic scenarios of terrorists wresting control of commercial drones to attack and destroy US installations or commercial buildings much as Bin Laden did during 9/11. Drone experts discount those fears, noting that no... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:It was once considered the drone industry’s biggest flop. Ten years ago, Jeff Bezos, then President and CEO at Amazon, announced plans to start delivering the company’s products directly to your doorstep – or rather, your backyard – in a matter of minutes. It sounded gimmicky, and it was. The plan ran into a host... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:Protecting America’s 2000-mile long southern border with Mexico is a major component of our country’s national security strategy. The clandestine pathways that allow tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to try to cross the border each year are the same ones that facilitate the entry of drug gangs, terrorists and sex traffickers. In theory, unmanned... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:One of the big challenges drone users face is how to keep their battery powered up during an extended flight. While drone batteries are large and relatively heavy, they do not actually store large amounts of electricity. It’s often frustrating to drone users to have to abort or cut short a flight because their vehicle’s... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:How much do we really know about the dynamics of the world’s vast oceans? Very little, according to Sebastien de Helleux, a French computer scientist and explorer who has pioneered the use of wind drones – or unmanned surface vehicles (USV) – to study the ocean’s uncharted depths. In a TED talk delivered last year,... Read More
Service Type: Location: View Contents:With so many drones filling the nation’s skies, it’s no wonder that the threat of commercial and private aircraft colliding with one has become an issue of concern to federal regulators and pilots alike. A 2017 report commissioned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sought to compare the likely damage caused by a mid-air collision... Read More
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It looks like a giant drone but flies just like a helicopter. But the US Air Force (USAF)’s experimental new “Hexa” – standing ten feet tall with a “halo” of 18 separate propellers that give the aircraft its unusual vertical takeoff and landing capability – is clearly designed for combat support, though its likely... Read More
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