(by Steve Hogan of floridadronelaw.com) Last week I served as a panelist at the Pasco Economic Development Council’s conference on Commercial Applications for Unmanned Aerial Systems. My rol... Read more
(Source: gigaom.com) After a New Jersey man spotted his neighbor’s camera-equipped drone flying over his house this week, he fetched a shotgun and peppered the drone with holes, knocking i... Read more
(Source: uasvision.com) The FAA UAS Integration Office issued an email to the industry outlining the requirement for all commercial UAS to bear an aircraft registration number when applying... Read more
from reviewjournal.com When the owners of a Philadelphia company flew an 11-pound octocopter with a 3-by-12-foot advertising banner on the Strip in front of The Mirage’s volcano in July, the... Read more
from jonathanturley.org Almost everyone likes model airplanes. Kids and adults have been building model flying machines for centuries. In fact, the Wright brothers experimented with model he... Read more
from lbbonline.com Like most industry ‘trends’, drones have had a bit of an ungainly settling-in phase. Attempts to use drones in advertising have, more often than not, been awkward (althoug... Read more
On Thursday, police in Los Angeles arrested a Tom Zebra, a drone hobbyist who was flying his DJI Phantom over the harbor in San Pedro, CA. Zebra captured his arrest on video and, according t... Read more
As national governments scramble to address drone-regulation issues, South Africa recently stepped to the plate, warning that any private use of UAVs is strictly illegal – maybe. In an Apri... Read more
NPR has been discussing drones quite a bit in the last couple weeks. The question they keep asking (a question we asked first have discussed as well) is: who owns the space above your house?... Read more
The following is an excerpt from the LinkedIn blog post of Sequoia Capital’s Michael Moritz There is no saying no to the future The hullaballoo about an errant drone that nearly colli... Read more
This post is Part Two of Who Owns the Sky? and will address the major goals and timeline of the FAA’s Integration of Civil Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the National Airspace Syst... Read more
In case you missed it: Here are some of the most talked about stories in drone news this week: The biggest news of the week was the announcement that the FAA’s first official UAS test... Read more
A bill that would both regulate and expand drone use in North Carolina passed its first legislative hurdle after the N.C. House Committee on Unmanned Aircraft Systems approved a draft bill o... Read more
Almost every state in the country seems to be trying to pass legislation that would protect private citizens from police-operated UAVs. In Pennsylvania, lawmakers are simply trying to preser... Read more