Author Archives: Martin Walls
Don’t Harass Wildlife With Drones
On Sunday and Monday, Twitter was abuzz over a harrowing Russian video, obviously shot with a drone, that showed a mother bear and cub making their way across a steep, snowy ridge. As the drone films, the cub falls down … Continue reading
Game of Drones: Farmers Look to Unmanned Aircraft to Monitor Crops
If you’ve wondered how difficult it is to set up and operate an unmanned aerial vehicle, consider the Quantix hybrid drone. You can have it set up and moved to a field to start flying within five minutes, notes Matt … Continue reading
Europe to test drone airspace integration systems
A series of drone demonstration projects are set to begin in Europe to develop manned/unmanned traffic management. The €9.5bn (US$10.8bn) U-space program consists of nine projects which will test a range of drone operations and their interaction with manned aviation … Continue reading
FAA expands drone restrictions near Navy, Coast Guard assets in Washington
The Federal Aviation Administration has expanded existing drone flight restrictions to ban the use of the unmanned aerial vehicles in the airspace above Navy installations that support “high-priority maritime operations.” The expansion came at the request of the Department of … Continue reading
