Commercial
Crafty Game Of Thrones fans have been thwarted from getting any sneak behind-the-scenes peeks after a ban on drones above the set. Signs erected close to the filming studios in Titanic Quarter, East Belfast, warn of a "no-fly zone" . And novice pilots are told they
Commercial
For the first time, the BBC has been allowed to fly a remote controlled camera along the tunnels of Crossrail, the giant building project that will eventually see trains criss-crossing London and the South East on a brand new train line. It took four months of negotiating with the
Testing
ING Robotic Aviation, Canada’s leading provider of robotic aircraft solutions, has just completed its two week mission to Canada’s North on board Fednav’s ice-breaking cargo ship MV Arctic. Primarily a research and development initiative, this project (led by Enfotec) was designed to assess various operational and
Commercial
Ivan Gayton with Doctors Without Borders in London has created a low-cost drone which he says says will help map parts of Africa where infrastructure is poor — one of many new ways drone technology is being used in Africa. It will allow aid charities working in Africa to respond
Aerial Photography
Pix4D, together with Aeryon Labs Inc. and PUC University of Rio de Janeiro, has reconstructed the first accurate 3D model of Brazil’s most important monument: the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Using the Aeryon UAV platform for data acquisition and Pix4D’s image processing software for
Regulations
Three BBC journalists have been questioned by Swiss police for breaching high-level security protocols by using a drone at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month. The journalists, who are understood to have worked with the BBC’s chief business correspondent Linda Yueh, were briefly detained by Swiss
Regulations
The weekend before Warner Bros. studios planned to make television history, the weather was not cooperating. In normally sunny California, there had been days of rain. Luckily, mother nature played ball. On December 15, 2014 the production team of "The Mentalist" was able to fly a drone on
Accidents
The DJI Inspire 1 features auto-takeoff and landing, allowing you to start and stop your flights with a simple tap of your controls. The feature recently didn’t work out so well for Mark Taylor of Scottsdale, Arizona, as the video above shows. Marks posted: To all the people
Regulations
A fully-licensed UK drone operator has just been arrested and held for flying his drone near London Gatwick airport, but within the Civil Aviation Authority rules. Police arrested Eddie Mitchell, a journalist and cameraman while shooting footage of a caravan fire that killed three people on Tuesday, in Newchappel,