An Interview with Flyability’s Patrick Thévoz The bond between man and drone is growing – perhaps it’s not at the level of our relationship to canines, but they are useful to us in different ways. Thousands of hobbyists have brought their love of UAVs to work with them, to the surprise and benefit of their employers. It is now quite normal for a casual drone operator to fit their favourite toy for industry application. However,…
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Read a full guide to the Typhoon H in the April edition of Drones Monthly Magazine
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The energy technology company, announced today it has developed a prototype of a hydrogen fuel cell powered range extender for drones. The range extender offers longer flight time and fast re-fuel capabilities, addressing two of the biggest challenges for manufacturers of battery-powered drones. Intelligent Energy will unveil its prototype of the fuel cell range extender on a drone at CES 2016, January 6-9 in Las Vegas. The company has been really encouraged by the positive…
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Star Wars legendary droid R2 D2 stole the show at the International Drone Expo in LA The drone creation was designed and built by aerial cinematographer Donny Melara and LA-based aerial photography firm Air Cam Shots. this is the latest in Star Wars drones taking flight from around the world, it would seem being a drone enthusiast and a star wars fan makes the perfect combination for such creativity. With a moving head. LED lights and…
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The SkyTech 2016 UAS conference & exhibition has announced its speaker line-up for January’s event. International experts will consider key developments from across the unmanned aviation industry, alongside discussion of UAS applications for a range of business markets. An extensive conference programme will see 40 speakers present across three conferences. Speakers include representatives from UNIFLY, Pix4D, Ampyx Power, Flyability, NVIDIA, Crossrail, BioCarbon Engineering, McGill University, AECOM, UK Trade & Investment, Blue Bear Systems, Historic England…
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5 days of shooting, 40 Minidrones acting, 10 pilots at the same time and a dedicated pool involved in the making of this video. A custom made engineered magic carpet has been created to insure Minidrones are flying, jumping and rolling in sync! Watch Parrot Minidrones Jailbreak, only at the end will you know whether they made it or not!
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Drones are now monitoring construction progress in California The construction workers building the new stadium for the Sacramento Kings in California are being monitored by several aerial drones and software that can automatically flag slow progress. Every day the drones automatically patrol the Sacramento work site, collecting video footage. That footage is then converted into a three-dimensional picture of the site, which is fed into software that compares it to computerized architectural plans as well…
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offers a variety of features including manual flight, camera telemetric controls, fully automatic takeoff, flight and landing and much more. The drone can simply be controlled with a mobile application and with just one tap the drone is ready to take off and start filming. With its high quality and flawless camera pitch, the drone always keeps the user in the center of the shot and in case of an emergency it conveniently lands back…
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