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Merry Christmas from Drone Review!
Drone Review wishes you a very Merry Christmas. We really enjoyed this video from Casey Neistat. In this video, Casey, dressed in a Santa Claus outfit, is towed behind a gigantic hexacopter. Hope you enjoy this video and have a very Merry Christmas!
How Drones Help With Renewable Energy
Renewable energy is a hot market. Solar power and wind farms are beginning to compete with fossil fuels for prime research and funding by governments worldwide. One thing that is helping drive this expansion of these markets is the ability to install and inspect components of these systems remotely using drones. Before drones were available to inspectors, they had to climb up onto any structure th...
Drones Baking Cakes
We all have high hopes for technology in the future. One of things we dream about is the day that drones will do the work that is usually reserved for humans. One such task is cooking and baking delicious cakes. In this video, we watch a fleet of drones as they fly around the cakes adding the ingredients and generally making a mess. But oh what a delicious mess they make! http://nerdist.com/drones...
Drone Landing Pad
Check out this light weight, foldable landing pad for your smaller drones from RC Style. It is orange on one side and black on the other with stakes to hold it down in the wind. If you are flying a Mavic or FPV racer that sits close to the ground, you might consider a way to keep the motors and electronics from getting dirt, dust and sand in them during takeoff and landing. This landing pad my be ...
Facebook Drone Crashes On Landing
Facebook has been developing its autonomous Aquila drone as a way to provide internet coverage to areas that otherwise can’t get a good connection. The Aquila drone is a fixed wing aircraft with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 747. In a recent test flight, the engineers kept the craft in the air for over 90 minutes, which is three times longer than they had originally planned to fly it. Whil...
Professional Baseball Pitcher And Amateur Drone Racer
Trever Bauer is best know as a starting pitcher for the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team. However, during his time off from pitching, he has become an avid drone pilot and often builds his own FPV racing quadcopters. He is known to travel with at least two drones to each game that he goes to and is often seen flying them in public parks around the stadiums where the baseball games take...
Verizon To Sell Data Plans For Drones
Verizon Communications Inc. has announced that it will begin to sell data plans for drones in 2017. The uses for this type of data plan include the ability to stream live video from drones, locate drones, and use real time mapping data in the sky. This could also, eventually lead to the ability for pilots to fly drones remotely from great distances away. Of course there are regulations that will n...
Stadium In Texas Using Drones To Test Internet Connections
The AT&T stadium, where the Dallas Cowboys play football, is using drones to test internet connectivity throughout the entire stadium. The drones are able to fly to different parts of the stadium with a small sensor that tests what the wireless connection is like at each individual seat. Art Pregler, the AT&T Drone Program Director explained the drones gauge how strong mobile signals are i...
Autonomous Flight Through Small Spaces
While today’s drones have many different kinds of sensors that allow them to detect and avoid obstacles, they are still not able to operate autonomously in tight spaces. Researchers at Robohub are working to change this by developing and testing hardware and software solutions that will allow small quadcopters to fly through very small and constrained spaces without any human intervention. I...
Drone At Wedding Nearly Leads To Divorce
It was supposed to be the dream wedding. Beautiful decorations, the perfect bride and groom, and, of course, photos to memorialize the entire event. However, a careless drone pilot soon brought that perfect picture to a screeching halt! Someone in the wedding party flew the drone into several of the guests, injuring several and stopping the wedding with a visit from paramedics. To read more about ...
Drones Help Researchers Study The Sea
There are many mysteries left on the planet Earth and one of them is the mystery of the ocean. While it covers a vast portion of our planet, we still know little about certain aspects of it. However, researchers are now able to utilize drones to capture information about the ocean and about the creatures that live in it. The ability to see them from above gives us a new perspective and new insight...
DJI Opens Second Store in China
DJI, the leader in consumer drones and UAVs has opened its second retail store in Shanghai’s busiest shopping, dining and entertainment district in Xintiandi. The two-story, 500 square meter or 5,400 square foot flagship store will showcase DJI’s full range of aerial platforms and camera products. “2016 is a milestone year for DJI as we celebrate 10 years of imagination, inspirat...