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Drone News for Week of 3-11-19
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| Man killed while trying to retrieve quadcopter drone - A 37-year-old man was killed and another man was injured while trying to retrieve a quadcopter drone near power lines in Forest Park, Georgia on Saturday. |
| Reno, Flirtey Approved to Test Drone Delivery of AEDs - The City of Reno and Flirtey are partnering to test the use of drones to deliver Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to cardiac arrest patients in Washoe County, Carson City and the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony. |
| AirMap Forms New Partnerships in Support of Safe Drone Operations - AirMap and Honeywell have teamed up to develop a new drone tracking solution to provide airspace safety authorities with situational awareness of manned and unmanned aircraft operations within an airspace system. |
| Seychelles science mission chases a wayward drone, in vain - A British-led marine scientific mission off the Seychelles failed on Wednesday to retrieve a key underwater drone from the sea bed, where it had fallen after its cable was cut the day before. |
| 'Neuroflight' drone controller gets a boost from A.I. - Artificial intelligence could power controllers that help drones fly faster and more precisely. |
| Cloud app creates drone deliverables in hours instead of days - For contractors and developers that are on a tight schedule and need to map large swaths of land or expansive projects, sometimes the only thing better than the convenience and insight that unmanned aerial system (UAS), or drone, imaging provides is getting the shots back in a few hours versus days. Engineering and environmental consulting firm Dudek, which provides drone imagery services to contractors, has found an effective solution for turning around image projects for construction clients fast. |
| Russian jets destroy ‘DRONE-FILLED’ terrorist warehouse in Syria’s Idlib to prevent airbase attack - The Russian military says an airstrike has obliterated a terrorist munitions stockpile in Syria’s Idlib province, which contained a whole fleet of drones. The UAVs were set to attack Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base in western Syria. |
| Video Shows a Drone With Talons That Hangs Upside Down Like a Bat - A researcher has figured out how to make drones substantially more energy efficient by making them more like bats and birds. The secret is mimicking how winged animals can take a load off pretty much anywhere they want. |
| New process uses multicopters to catch fixed-wing drones at sea - Because fixed-wing drones are more energy-efficient than multicopters, they're often used for tasks such as mapping the ocean. Many of them require landing strips, however, which there isn't always room for on ships. A new technique gets around that problem, using copters to catch them. |
| Drone no-fly zones will be extended from 1km to 5km - The ‘no-drone zone’ around UK airports is extended today to just over three miles. It comes after around 1,000 flights were grounded at Gatwick in December. |
| Drone racing is now flying with NBC and Twitter - Yahoo Finance's Zack Guzman and Seana Smith are joined by Kelly Hultgren, ‘HerMoney’ co-founder, to discuss the Drone Racing League's new partnership, with Nicholas Horbaczewski, Drone Racing League CEO and founder. |
| Police Deploy Drone To Track Suspects Running Through Wooded Area - Murrysville Police used a drone to help them catch two vehicle theft suspects who ran into a wooded area Monday; |
| Insect-Inspired Robot Uses Wings to Fly Like a Drone - A French inventor took to Kickstarter to raise funds for an insect-inspired winged drone called MetaFly. It generated quite a buzz. As of the time this article was published, more than 1,850 people have pledged over $187,500 to bring the drone to market. It's expected to ship in September 2019. |
| Albemarle students learn about drone mapping skills - A drone took over the sky at Albemarle High School on Friday morning to show students how to map out the area. |
| Rapid Response from the Air: Medicines Successfully Delivered Using a Parcel Drone in East Africa - Three experts in their respective fields are making it happen: DHL, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German drone manufacturer Wingcopter. |
| Valkyrie drone could accompany US fighter jets - The US Air Force has carried out a successful test of an advanced, jet-powered drone called the XO-58A Valkyrie that may some day fly alongside a piloted plane on missions or even absorb enemy fire instead of the piloted plane. |
| Drone Operator Yells at Swimming Boy Apparently Unaware of Mortal Danger - Artem Tkachenko was flying his drone over a beach in the Bahamas, capturing on camera the picturesque scene … |
| Libya's Tripoli Airport Reopens After Drone Alert - The airport in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, reopened Saturday after a brief closure because of an unidentified drone flying in the area, officials said. Residents have repeatedly spotted drones flying over Tripoli in the past few days but the reason for their flights is not clear. |
| Police drones soar over privacy qualms, clear for House floor - The House is ready to vote on a bill allowing law enforcement to use remotely piloted aircraft in investigations. It cleared its last committee Thursday. |
| New video released in search for hit-and-run driver - Investigators in Fayette County are releasing surveillance video of a fatal hit and run accident in the hopes that someone will come forward with information about the driver who caused it. … |
Australia Drone News
| New Zealand farmer uses a barking drone to herd his sheep - Corey Lambeth uses a drone to keep an eye on his livestock — but he still keeps his pooches busy, too |
| Strewth! Apoplectic Aussies threaten to blast noisy Google delivery drones out of the sky - The folks who lived under the Project Wing trial program, held in the Canberra suburb of Bonython, absolutely hate the autonomous flying machines, and have set up a community action group to stop others from having to deal with the noise and disruption. |
| 'All but powerless': Government concedes it can't stop delivery drones - The ACT government admits it has “very limited” powers to regulate household delivery drone services, including the level of noise emitted during flights, a Legislative Assembly inquiry has heard. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has also acknowledged that no single federal agency is responsible for policing drone noise, as more gaps in the regulation of the divisive innovation start to emerge. |
| New Noise-Blocking Material Could Make Jets And Drones Super Quiet - The most effective way to block an annoying sound is to simply build a barrier — the thicker, the better. But instead of everyone living in sound-blocking caves in a few years as noisy drones criss-cross the skies, researchers at Boston University have engineered an acoustic meta material that’s designed to silence annoying sounds at their source, without blocking the movement of air. |
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