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Drone News: Kitty Hawk Flyer

Want to fly your own drone, now you can with the Kitty Hawk Flyer. This bird was unveiled in April and will be available by the end of the year. No price has been announced but if you become a member of their community ($100 one time fee) you will get access to behind-the-scenes action, […]

Drone Skydiving

Watch as a 28-rotor drone lifts a man about 1,000 feet in the air before he lets go and skydives down to earth. While this is obviously a stuntman doing this, it does show how drones could be used for rescue operations or quick placement of a person in an area they are needed. ABC […]

DJI’s New Mini Drone, Spark

DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, Wednesday launched Spark, an easy-to-use, fun-to-fly mini camera drone that lifts off from the palm of your hand to capture and share the special moments in your life on the go. Thanks to DJI’s powerful technology, Spark is the first drone that users can […]

Midwest Drone Fest

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Trade Show, Career Fair and Entrepreneur Fair Learn how drones are improving the way we do business. The focus of this conference is to connect organizations, career-minded UAS (drone) pilots, and industry leaders who are forging the economic development of this emerging industry, with those who want to know more. […]

Drone News: Appeals court ends FAA drone registration rule

Today, a federal appeals court struck down a federal rule that required operators of RC aircraft to register the devices with the Federal Aviation Administration. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that federal law prohibits the FAA from issuing any rules or regulations covering “model aircraft.” The ruling is a win for model […]

Raphael “Trappy” Pirker, midflight
in Venice. Testing and
incorporating new technology is
key to building better products,
but sometimes that involves
modifying what’s available—including
ski masks, apparently.

Drone Rebels

Raphael Pirker and Team BlackSheep Back in 2003, first-person view (FPV) was little more than a half-baked idea in the mind of a young Swiss- Austrian student studying at the University of Zurich. But it was a potent mixture of “why not” attitude, plenty of spare time, and living in a scenic area that led […]

3D printers to watch for

There is no denying that the consumer 3D printer is quickly coming of age. There is growing competition among companies to find new and less expensive ways of automating the process of making realworld objects out of virtual ones. But while for some companies the imperative is to improve quality and performance, others focus on […]

Drones in Mining

This is the third in a new series of Drone Analyst white papers intended to share lessons learned within specific industries. These reports will help you as a business owner in those industries maximize the value that drones can deliver. This year we are building on the analysis we did for the 2016 “Truth About” […]

International Drone Day

This Saturday, May 6th, is the third annual celebration of all things drone. It follows the success of the first International Drone Day in 2015, which saw over 40,000 people in 150 countries take part. Drones continue to be an often controversial topic, and so International Drone Day 2017 is set to be even larger […]

Turnigy HS1177 V2 1/3 Sony Color HAD II CCD Camera

From HobbyKing: The HS1177 V2 is a high-performance FPV camera and uses a Sony 1/3 Super HAD II CCD image sensor with 650TVL resolution and outstanding image quality. The package comes with a three position camera mount, so you can angle the camera to your needs, plus an in-line OSD Menu Key making it easy […]