For every 10 drone-related “good news” articles that blaze across the online media skyline every day, it’s almost universally true that the “one-bad-apple” drone groan will make the most hea... Read more
An FAA that could have previously been described as moving at a glacial pace on approving commercial drone operations has taken a much different tact in 2015. When this year began only about... Read more
There are a lot of things wrong and/or against the rules with this video: The Golden Gate Bridge is in a drone no-fly zone. City streets are usually pretty crowded and flying over a crowded... Read more
(Source: desertsun.com) As flames swallowed 31,000 acres in San Bernardino National Forest late last month, a drone was spotted above a ridgeline. The unmanned aircraft flew between two em... Read more
(Source: arstechnica.com) While we’ve heard of consumer drones getting in the way of commercial airliners and obstructing firefighting operations, we haven’t heard of many drones being sho... Read more
(Source: fortune.com) For years now, drone advocates have cited precision agriculture—crop management that uses GPS and big data—as a way to boost crop yields and profits while resolving w... Read more
(Source: Bloomberg.com) It was the blinking lights outside the 10th-story window of her San Jose, California, condo that startled Elsvette Buenaventura from her bed last year. When she dre... Read more
(Source: BBC) How do you deliver food and medicine to people in an area where a cargo plane would be shot down? It was a question that kept US Air Force pilot Mark Jacobsen awake at night... Read more
(Source: utsandiego.com) With potentially thousands of commercial and police drones taking to the skies over California in coming years, state lawmakers in 2015 will again be charged with... Read more
On Monday, The Linux Foundation announced a new open-sourced software project called Dronecode. The concept behind Dronecode is to create an ecosystem where current and future drone projects... Read more
(Source: petapixel.com) In a bill meant to bring California’s privacy laws into a drone-heavy 21st century, the state just signed an act into law that will make it both illegal and very ex... Read more
This week was pretty busy, both here at Dronelife and around the UAS community. In the wake last week’s announcement from the FAA that granted six aerial imaging companies permission t... Read more
(Source: sacramento.cbslocal.com) California Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have placed strict limits on law enforcement agencies using unmanned aerial drones for surveillan... Read more
(Source: esquire.com) Jukebox the Ghost have developed a reputation for getting heads bobbing with their sweetly anthemic electro-rock. From the sound of “The Great Unknown,” the... Read more