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Alaska researchers study sea otters with unmanned aircraft

This is a very good use of a multirotor by researchers. by Sue Mitchell Watching marine life to gather data about behavior and abundance can be tedious and time-consuming for researchers, but recent studies indicate unmanned aircraft may offer a way around such obstacles. University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists conducted two field studies to see […]

Vulcan 1200mm Raven Octocopter review

When I think of a raven, I picture a large, heavily built crow with black plumage or something rapping on Edgar Allan Poe’s chamber door. Alex of VulcanUAV has a different idea: a monster octocopter that can lift almost any size camera you dare to put in the air. But it is still black. The […]

Drone University

When does a community of enthusiasts and innovators become an industry? In the case of commercial unmanned aircraft in the United States and all of its potential applications, it is a question for academics and historians to take up years from now. When scholars assemble and analyze the chronology of events and milestones that formed […]

Amazon Drones get FAA Experimantal Certificate

Amazon, which one day hopes to make deliveries via drone, have got permission to take the first step in the quest. Amazon now has permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to perform testing of its Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) technology. Last Thursday the FAA issued an experimental airworthiness certificate to an unmanned aircraft design that […]

RotorDrone Magazine – Making the cover photo

In our business we are lucky to work with some great people in the publishing world, and one of the best out there has to be our photographer Tony Donaldson. He is one of the people responsible for the latest RotorDrone Magazine cover and we enjoyed working with him on that project. Tony did a […]

International Drone Day 2015

A day was set aside to celebrate drones and show that Technology is something to enjoy and not to fear. Throughout the country and the world there were a number of events put on for the public to learn and enjoy. Our Senior Editor John Reid spent the day out at Apollo field in […]