GoPro aim to release their own consumer drone before July 2016

Posted on May 28, 2015June 23, 2015 by dan

Gopro founder Nick Woodman has confirmed it will release their ultimate camera accessory CEO and founder of Gopro made the announcement at the Code Conference in California where he confirmed he aims to have a drone ready within the first half of 2016, he also unveiled a new mount which takes a step into capturing virtual reality footage holding multiple cameras. Nick Woodman commented “Quadcopters have a special place for us at GoPro because…

Lily, the water proof drone that tracks you

Posted on May 15, 2015July 9, 2015 by dan

Since extreme sports enthusiasts discovered the wearable camera, a natural aerial photography evolution has risen and continues to innovate Meet Lily! a drone that not only follows you through a wearable tracking device, but is fully water proof and floats, so will be appealling to water sport enthusiasts too! The device follows its user at a safe distance avoiding the risk of accidents and will land safely before the battery runs down, it will also…

EasyJet to deploy drones to aid aircraft safety checks

Posted on May 12, 2015June 23, 2015 by dan

Usually when you hear the two words drone and airplane in the same sentence, its more often than not that the drone gets negative coverage in the media, but one such drone technology is being used to run aircraft safety checks. Usually faults which take human power a day to find is found in a matter of just hours by creating 3D images with millimetre accuracy. the drones are due to be in operation next…

Meet the GL-10, NASA’s prototype Drone

Posted on May 12, 2015June 23, 2015 by dan

The Prototype 10 engine Electric drone Greased Lightning ( GL-10) has both hover and plane mode. The prototype drone from NASA is currently in its testing stage, with the ability to take off vertically the drone has passed its hovering tests with flying colours, but the next stage is the transition from vertical to forward “wing-borne” flight. As engineers who have designed full-scale vertical take off and landing tiltrotors such as the V-22 Osprey will…

What to expect from the new Phantom 3

Posted on April 9, 2015June 23, 2015 by dan

World leading drone series continues to innovate Since Frank Wang founded DJI back in 2006 it has become the Phantom series that has become a worldwide sensation with their drones been spotted all over the world, with their drone series coming straight out of the box that suits to a professional use of aerial photography but easy enough for novices to get to grips with. The last few years have seen a boom in drone advances,…

Drones Monthly announce UK Drone Show as official media partners

Posted on April 8, 2015April 8, 2015 by dan

Drones Monthly Magazine are happy to announce this years UK Drone Show as official Media Partners In this rapidly innovative industry the first consumer drone show has reached UK shores, the show will cater the latest in drone technology from companies on the cutting edge of innovation, whether you are an enthusiast, aerial photographer…just interested in tech or an industry professional, the UK drone show is the event to be at. tickets are on sale…

German designer creates Apple drone concept

Posted on April 1, 2015April 1, 2015 by dan

A German graphic designer Eric Huismann has designed a drone concept which has been widely named as the idrone by online media As many reports suggest we can confirm this is not a concept linked directly to Apple but in fact is the creative work of German graphic designer Eric Huismann, It is suspected Apple will release a drone at some point in the future but at the moment the concept design by huismann gives…

DroneDeploy form partnership with DJI

Posted on March 31, 2015June 24, 2015 by dan

DroneDeploy Announces New App, $9M Funding and Partnership DroneDeploy, a San Francisco-based start-up that provides cloud-based software solutions for commercial drone operations, has raised Series A funding, launched a new mobile app and formed a partnership with DJI.The $9 million in Series A funding was led by San Mateo, Calif.-based Emergence Capital, with participation from previous investors SoftTech, DataCollective and Angelpad. The investment adds to the $2 million in seed funding the company received in…

Is the future of the emergency services unmanned?

Posted on March 31, 2015March 31, 2015 by dan

Drones could now replace police helicopters as the forces aim to save money Following a stream of drone concepts and innovations aimed at the emergency services and search and rescue, it comes to no surprise that Chief constables at Surrey and Suffolk police aim to implement five new drones in the near future to cut spending by £4000,000 a year. The police are forced to look at the new technology after government cuts are pushing local…

Europe on the forefront of drone logistics

Posted on March 25, 2015 by dan

Europe may see the first commercial delivery drones take flight as the European Aviation Safety Agency release new policies regarding drones The EASA have now put drones into their own category rather than being fitted into manned aviation regulations, enabling less strict rules from the ones put into place by the FAA, Amazon have already spoken out their frustration with the Federal Aviation Administration with the time taken to approve Prime Air test flights in…

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