News and Commentary. The University of Dayton Research Institute recently released a video showing that when a Phantom 2 quadcopter hits the wing of an aircraft directly, bad things happen.... Read more
Media giant CNN has received a first-of-its-kind Part 107 waiver from the FAA to fly small drones over people. According to a CNN statement, the approval represents an industry milestone bec... Read more
CNN Aerial Imagery and Reporting (CNN AIR), the media giant’s drone division, is the first organization to get a Part 107 waiver for flight over people for “closed-set motion pic... Read more
CNN has announced that they are officially launching a media drone program, CNN AIR (Aerial Imagery and Reporting.) CNN will now have two full-time drone operators to capture aerial footage... Read more
Veterans of the drone industry and large corporations interested in using drones have formed a new drone advocacy group. The independent and non-profit Commercial Drone Alliance will focus... Read more
(Source: Market Watch) When a 2-pound drone crashed on the White House lawn in January, the nation was thrown into drone hysteria. That drone was a $1,000 model made by Chinese technology... Read more
As the drone industry gains altitude as an emerging technology, the inevitable question of how to handle “drones behaving badly” is being swatted around the arena of media punditry with both... Read more
A California county has placed a price on the head or heads of the rather dim drone operators who may have prevented firefighters from properly battling summer wildfires. The San Bernardino... Read more
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
Thursday afternoon, the Secret Service detained a man who allegedly tried to launch a Parrot Bebop Drone over the White House fence. This marks the second time in four months there has been... Read more
Drones are becoming an increasingly popular tool in fire departments around the world. However, such departments are often limited by budget restrictions and public perception. That’s... Read more
Last week at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems show in Atlanta, FAA administrator Michael Huerta and CNN’s Director of News Operations, Gregory Agvent, announced a strategic partnership t... Read more
(Source: The Guardian) The 2016 presidential election could go down as the first in US history to be captured by drones, after federal regulators on Wednesday gave CNN the green light to b... Read more
(Source: Forbes) Today the FAA announced a partnership with three companies for expanded unmanned aircraft operations. The initiative, called the Pathfinder Program is intended to help the... Read more