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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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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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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
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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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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
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China's largest mail company is set to deliver more than 1,000 packages a day by drone. S.F. Express has revealed it already has a fleet of aircraft flying 500 parcels a day to remote areas, and it is now looking to double the capacity. The all-weather
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The head of a project that is developing commercial drones predicts the day will come when passenger aircraft will fly without pilots. Dave Vos, head of Google's Project Wing, said Monday his personal view is that it's completely doable and that it will occur in his
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According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in the period between 1985 and 2014, 60.7% of all exported unmanned aircraft in the world were produced in Israel. The United States comes second as a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles, as it supplied 23.9% of all (Unmanned
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German designer Eric Huisman mocked up a sleek drone concept called the Apple Quadcopter, which has a minimalistic black-and-white design. It's very, well, Apple. In a series of photos posted to his website, which are stylised to look like Apple's traditional promotional pictures, the company'
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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 could face prosecution
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Google’s quest to introduce small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into low altitude airspace within a “few years” has driven the company to launch an unexpected foray into the avionics market, says Dave Vos, head of the Internet company’s Project Wing. Two companies – L-3 Aviation Products and FreeFlight – have