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SHEP the Drone - Worlds first Drone Sheepdog
Irish sheep farmer Paul Brennan has figured how to use a drone to do a sheepdog’s job - introducing Shep the Drone. Filmed by Paul Brennan in Carlow Ireland. Source: YouTube
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UAS for Wireless and Utility Infrastructure Inspections
Solusia Air, LLC, an affiliate of Solusia Services, LLC, announced it has been awarded an exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to deploy unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to perform asset audits and safety inspections for wireless and utility infrastructure firms. Solusia Air began the application process in 2014, working
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Facebook Announces First Unmanned Flight
Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook (where else?) on March 26th that the company had successfully completed its first test flight of its unmanned aircraft in the UK. The final design will have a wingspan greater than a Boeing 737 but will weigh less than a car. It will be powered
Department of Justice Audit on UAS Use
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spent “approximately $600,000” on drones it never flew operationally, according to an audit conducted by a Justice Department watchdog and released Wednesday. Between September 2011 and September 2012, Inspector General Michael Horowitz reports, the ATF purchased a total of six unmanned
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Drones Hold Great Promise For Medical Applications
In some remote parts of the world, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are already being field-tested for medical uses. Drones successfully delivered small aid packages after the Haitian earthquake in 2012, and in Papua New Guinea, Doctors Without Borders used them to transport dummy TB test samples from a remote
Hexacopter Tracks Whales off California Coast
Wayne Perryman, a biologist and fellow Southwest Fisheries Science Center, researcher John Durban are pioneering the use of drones to track baleen whales. The team's small hexacopter has already captured amazing images of killer whales of the coast of Canada. "After the first flight, when we brought
Unmanned Helicopters on Mars
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently announced that it is developing a small drone helicopter to scout the way for future Mars rovers. Why would Mars rovers need such a robotic guide? The answer is that driving on Mars is really hard. Here on Earth, robots exploring volcanic rims,
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Swedish SWAT Team Considers Drones for Special Operations
Swedish police are testing the use of drones, with a special emphasis on SWAT and possible search and rescue operations. It's unknown how many drones the police in Sweden plan to order, but they would be used in select cases, with testing beginning sometime this summer. Drones could
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nEUron Flight Tests Move to Italy
Testing of the pan-European nEUron unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator is due to move to Italy following the completion of French testing of the aircraft. Following 100 test flights by Dassault Aviation in France, during which the sensor, data-link and stealth characteristics of the demonstrator were tested, responsibility
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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Flyover
The United States Air Force flew this B-52 Stratofortress all the way from Guam to Avalon in Australia to provide visitors to the Australian International Airshow with a chance to see this awesome aircraft flyby at speed. Once the display was done the aircraft headed back to Guam -- all
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Unmanned Aircraft Inspect Energy Pipeline Route
The first Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership at Virginia Tech test flight using a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft to inspect an energy pipeline route—with a piloted chase plane following behind to ensure safety beyond the ground observers' sight line —was completed last week. The flight was a step toward
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Drone Racing at 150 KPH
True believers hope they're at the start of what'll be a global movement, but for now they gather in fields, beaches and even car parks for fun - which involves flying drones at night, seeing what the drone sees. Illegal if it's done in the