The Federal Aviation Authority comes down on hard on illegal drone flights — and now it’s issued its biggest ever fine for the offence, demanding $1.9 million from the aerial photography company SkyPan International. Read more…
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The FAA Issued a $1.9 Million Fine to a Company for Illegal Drone Flights
Deforestation downs 10 billion trees around the globe annually. Replanting trees by hand is slow, expensive, and barely puts a dent in reversing the damage. But one startup wants to use drones that can reforest our increasingly tree-strapped Earth, on a big enough scale to replace slow and expensive hired humans. Read more…
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This Startup Wants To Plant One Billion Trees a Year Using Drones
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Weekend of Wonder is unveiling SKEYE Pico Drone – world’s tiniest drone
Orange County’s Seal Beach is a popular spot for swimmers and surfers, so its lifeguards figured they’d use a camera drone to keep a better eye on them. But what they saw instead was “10 to 12 great white sharks just feet from shore.” Read more…
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California Lifeguards Get Drone, Instantly Spot 10-12 Great Whites
Another great thing you can do with drones—take stunning footage of ancient royal burial chambers. This National Geographic video offers an entirely new perspective on the Nubian pyramids that have stood the test of time in the Sudanese desert for over 3, 000 years. Read more…
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Drone Captures Incredible Footage of Ancient Nubian Pyramids
Indian police recently purchased five drones so they could dump pepper spray on protesters during political demonstrations. Read more…
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Police in India Will Use Weaponized Pepper Spray Drones on Protesters
Drones are expensive. Aircraft like General Atomics’s MQ-1 Predator or MQ-9 Reaper cost millions of dollars piece, while the cost of maintaining the fleet stretches into the high tens of billions dollars over their lifespans. The Pentagon’s internal watchdog is aware of this, and recently lambasted the Air Force for not justifying the purchase of 46 Reapers— potentially wasting $8.8 billion of taxpayers’ money . Read more…
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Pentagon Scolds Air Force for Wasting Nearly $9 Billion on Drones
Friday was a big day at the drone testing facility in Boulder City, Nevada. It was the day that the first drone authorized to fly without FAA approval would take to the air. The bright orange unmanned aircraft, Magpie, did just that—and then it crashed to the ground in an embarrassing cloud of dust two seconds later. Read more…
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First Drone Launches at FAA Test Site in Nevada, Crashes Immediately
What does the Navy do when it needs to know for sure that a new weapon system or electronic countermeasure works, not just under stringent lab-like settings or at a land based range, but in its intended operating environment? They put it to sea on a giant remote controlled Destroyer and throw live missiles at it. Read more…
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This Destroyer Is The World’s Largest Remote Controlled Vehicle
For nearly two years, the Air Force’s X-37B autonomous space plane has been circling around the Earth doing who knows what. Now it’s finally coming back to Earth , carrying all its secrets with it. Read more…
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The Air Force’s Mysterious Spy Plane Is Landing After 2 Years in Space