Some things are holiday classics, two things that come to mind in my household for Thanksgiving are the song Alice's Restaurant first published by Arlo Guthrie in 1967 and the cooking the Thanksgiving Dinner with a Drone video. First published by us last year, here it is again. It's that time of year again - time to review what you can (and cannot) do with a drone for … [Read more...] about Thanksgiving Dinner With a Drone – and Other Questionable Cooking Advice
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That Flamethrower Drone Might Actually Be Useful
Connecticut police weren't happy when a teenager rigged a drone with a flamethrower and took YouTube videos - in fact, the state made efforts to outlaw weaponized drones completely. But a Chinese utility company in Xaingyang thinks differently. Refuse caught in power lines is a problem everywhere, and in China they've come up with an innovative way of dealing with it. The … [Read more...] about That Flamethrower Drone Might Actually Be Useful
Flamethrower Drone Teen and Dad in More Trouble
Austin Haughwout, the 19-year-old CT man who built a flamethrower drone and put a video of it on YouTube, has run into trouble in his legal case with the FAA. A federal judge has ruled that Haughwout and his father must testify under oath at depositions and hand over documents about both the flamethrower drone and the drone firing a handgun that Haughwout flew in his … [Read more...] about Flamethrower Drone Teen and Dad in More Trouble
FAA Takes “Flamethrower” Drone Owner to Court
The FAA wants to know more about the now famous gun-wielding drone that has fired up controversy in Connecticut and it’s willing to go to court to find out. In 2015, Austin Haughwout, a mechanical engineering student at Central Connecticut State University, released a video demonstrating a drone carrying a gun and as well as a flame-thrower with a different UAV. Since … [Read more...] about FAA Takes “Flamethrower” Drone Owner to Court
