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Drone News for Week of May 13th 2019
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| Auterion enables Impossible Aerospace to launch new US-1 drone for first responders - Auterion and Impossible Aerospace has announced their partnership and collaboration to bring to market the US-1 UAV, which has a two-hour flight time. |
| Jerome drone ban not enforced - “That has nothing to do with the airport,” Cottonwood Airport Special Projects Manager Morgan Scott said. He was surprised to find out about the sign at all, especially since it seems to conflict with Federal Aviation Administration regulations about drone use. |
| Rega rescue drone will autonomously search for missing persons - Swiss air rescue service Rega has a new tool in the search for missing persons – a drone that can autonomously scan large areas and identify potential targets.The heat-seeking drone is designed to help its human rescue teams find people who are lost, injured or ill in the mountains of Switzerland and Lichtenstein, where Rega operates. |
| Counter-drone company violated federal law at Music Festival - Miami Police invited a counter drone company during Ultra Music Festival to keep the skies free of drones, but they may have violated federal law. |
| Tornado scientists send drone fleet into violent thunderstorms - Starting on 15 May, a fleet of up to four drones will help researchers to monitor supercell thunderstorms. These rotating storms pummel the central United States with lightning, tennis ball-sized hail and damaging winds every spring and summer, and some, but not all, develop tornadoes. |
| Swiss Air Rescue Service Rega Develops New Drone - Drones are forming an important part of search and rescue or first responder teams with success thanks to improving technology. Now Swiss air rescue service Rega has developed a new– drone that can autonomously scan large areas and identify tool in the search for missing persons. |
| Pac. Junction still in clean up stages - New drone footage - The Metropolitan Area Planning Agency has released new drone footage of Pacific Junction. Most of the water is gone, but debris still litters area fields and homes in the area. |
| Drones help farmers detect disease, manage water - Drones can change how farmers detect disease, look for pests and manage water and fertilizer – ultimately allowing them to save money. |
| No drinking and droning; stiff penalties follow rise in accidents - Drone operators who pilot their craft while under the influence will soon face severe penalties similar to those meted out to drunken drivers. |
| Event Camera Helps Drone Dodge Thrown Objects - This drone uses an event camera, which responds to changes in a scene on a per-pixel basis in microseconds, to nimbly avoid obstacles. |
| Drone Incident Grounds Flights at Frankfurt Airport - An airport spokesman said Thursday that a pilot reported seeing a drone and the airport was closed down from about 7:20 a.m. until 8:20 a.m. (0520 GMT until 0620 GMT) while German federal police searched for the drone and its operator with a helicopter. The airport has since reopened. Police are continuing to investigate the incident. |
| Drone cams to help Western Railway stay on track during rains - Learning its lessons from last year’s monsoon when water-logging in Virar-Nalasopara affected train movement for hours, the Western Railway will, for for the first time, deploy drone cameras to monitor vulnerable spots as a part of its monsoon preparedness measures |
| Foreign tourist warned for flying drone over Shibuya 'Scramble Crossing' - A foreign tourist was warned about flying a drone over the popular Scramble Crossing in Shibuya Ward on Sunday |
| Johnston authorities' use of drone to locate stolen property questioned - Drone video of stolen property led to an arrest in Johnston County, but the American Civil Liberties Union is questioning whether authorities had a search warrant to fly the drone over private property. |
| Reno to close some streets for drone testing - With NASA selecting the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) to participate in the Technical Capability Level (TCL) 4 drone operation to test flying in higher-density urban areas, some streets will be closed in the coming days. |
| UK drones map Chernobyl's 'Red Forest' - British scientists undertake a new aerial survey of one of the most radioactive locations on Earth. |
| Drone footage shows extent of Georgia-Pacific fire - The Sky 2 drone shows aerials of the damage after a fire at the Georgia-Pacific paper plant in Muskogee |
| DJI Spark 2 rumors - drone to be released this summer - DJI is about to release the DJI Spark 2 drone. The drone is rumored to feature some important upgrades compared to the original Spark, launched in 2017. |
Australia Drone News
| Australia CASA approves drone delivery of food and medicine to Canberra homes - Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has approved US operator Wing Aviation to use drones for delivery of food and non-prescription medicines to homes in northern Canberra |
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