(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 after he met Syrian refugees in Turkey. Then he had an idea - a swarm of tiny drones, each delivering 1kg or 2kg at a time. On an airfield in Sacramento a group of aircraft enthusiasts … [Read more...] about Bringing Aid to a War Zone in a Swarm of Drones
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California Eyes Rules for Commercial, Police Drones
(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 deciding how best to encourage the job-boosting industry while also safeguarding the privacy rights it threatens. Their debates will be guided by a trio of bills introduced at the … [Read more...] about California Eyes Rules for Commercial, Police Drones
Drone Headlines for the Week of 10/17/14
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 can benefit from a large community of UAV developers. Companies all over the world are building hardware, writing code, and conducting field tests - and collecting useful data that deserves … [Read more...] about Drone Headlines for the Week of 10/17/14
California Updates Invasion of Privacy Law to Ban the Use of Camera Drones
(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 expensive for anybody seeking to invade someone else’s privacy by taking photos of them with a camera drone. The law is seen by many as an anti-paparazzi law, but it’s meant to protect … [Read more...] about California Updates Invasion of Privacy Law to Ban the Use of Camera Drones
This Week in Drones: Explosive Headlines for the Week of 10/3/14
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 to fly their drones on movie sets, there was a lot of discussion this week about the rate of UAS integration into the national airspace. At the same time, there were plenty of other drone … [Read more...] about This Week in Drones: Explosive Headlines for the Week of 10/3/14
