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This scary video shows just what can be done with an amateur COTS system in the hands of a skilled pilot. The pilot is known as ‘Kichahobo’, an FPV* fan from Iceland and the aircraft was flown with a Dragon Link long-range system - a UHF** FHSS*** radio system for
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Advanced Defense Technologies, Inc. has announced that as ADTI's Seek and Avoid technology moves forward with integration into its UAS system, it sees some of the first commercial applications for border security. Current FAA rules restrict flights of UAS to no higher than 400 feet, and away from
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Seattle police say they won't deploy unmanned aircraft until appropriate policies are approved. Police said Monday they are still in the evaluation and training stage of using unmanned aircraft. They say they have discussed the new technology with the American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU spokesman Doug Honig told
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Canyon County, Idaho, is one of the first places in the USA to get FAA approval to use an unmanned surveillance aircraft for emergency operations. Canyon County emergency officials say it can help in the biggest emergency situations - whether to track a wildfire or help locate a missing person
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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students and professors have designed an unmanned aircraft that will help keep poachers from killing sharks and whales near Ecuador. The unmanned aircraft will be used to prevent poaching in the Pacific Ocean around the Galapagos Islands, an area rich in marine life. The goal is eventually
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Brain Farm Digital Cinema, Snaproll Media, and Schiebel have announced that the CAMCOPTER S-100 achieved the first ever UAS first flight with the CINEFLEX camera. The days of shooting were successfully carried out in Austria, bringing new levels of innovation to the film and broadcast industry professionals around the world.
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The Kansas State University Department of Agronomy recently purchased a new MAJA Unmanned Aircraft System, with the intent of installing imaging systems on it for studying plant productivity, monitoring plant growth stages, assessing plant health, and mapping plant composition for characterizing changes in distribution of invasive and toxic plant species.
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The AggieAir Flying Circus is a service center at the Utah Water Research Laboratory that provides high resolution, multispectral aerial imagery using a small, unmanned aircraft system called AggieAir. Because AggieAir is a low-cost, easy-to-use platform it is able to map small areas quicker, more frequently, at finer resolution, and
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The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to soon green light the use of small unmanned aircraft by emergency services. Some sheriffs' departments in the Northwest are showing interest in these aircraft. A booth rented by Prioria Robotics drew a crowd this week at the 2012 Partners in Emergency Preparedness
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Techies in Silicon Valley are sending the three-to-six foot wide unmanned aircraft, guided by computers, radios and soon cell-phones, to survey fields, capture action shots from the air or follow them around to snap photos at optimal angles.About their only constraints: a 400-foot ceiling for amateur aircraft set by
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The State of Hawaii purchased an unmanned surveillance aircraft last year to patrol the skies over Honolulu Harbour but the aircraft can’t be flown because of heavy air traffic in the area. The $75,000 aircraft was delivered last June – six months after Hawaii Reporter disclosed that the state
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CAE and Aeronautics have announced that the first series of flights of the Miskam unmanned aircraft system (UAS) have been conducted successfully over the past several weeks at the UAS Centre of Excellence (Centre d’excellence des drones) located at Alma airport in Quebec, Canada. The demonstration flights represent the