by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog
From SmartGrid News: The Edison Electric Institute, the trade association for investor-owned electric utilities, is forming a partnership with Sharper Shape, to develop Unmanned Aircraft Systems beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flights in the U.S. – the...
by David Brooks | Mar 19, 2016 | Blog
The Monitor has a good story today about the concern that prisons have with drones dropping contraband into the prison yard: “On nine separate occasions over the last six months, corrections workers spotted a drone flying over the (state prison in Concord),...
by David Brooks | Feb 1, 2016 | Blog
Any news about drones is interesting. Any news about raptors is interesting. Any news about a government body approaching a difficult problem in thinking-out-of-the-box ways in interesting. So this story hits the trifecta: Dutch Police Training Eagles To Take Down...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2015 | Blog
There have been somewhere around a dozen cases this summer of water-carrying aircraft having to turn back from a wildfire scene because a personal drone was flying nearby, filming it. U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire has sponsored a bill that would make such...
by David Brooks | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog
The Royal Burgers Zoo in The Netherland used a drone to make cool video of their world-famous chimpanzee enclosure when one of the apes reacted like a number of humans have done. Watch the video right here.
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