uavs
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MQ-9B Drone Is First ‘Civilian-Registered’ Remotely Piloted Aircraft To Cross Atlantic
A model of the MQ-9 Reaper on display on the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC in 2010. The first “civilian-registered” remotely piloted drone to ever make a flight across the Atlantic landed at 6:43pm local time (1:45pm ET) in RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire on Wednesday after taking off from Grand Forks, North…
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Don’t Fly Drones Where Firefighters Are Trying To Save Lives
It’s understandable that UAV enthusiasts might be tempted to grab amazing footage of ongoing disasters like the northern California wildfires — providing a unique perspective of a climate change-fuelled catastrophe which has now killed at least 41 people, burned down thousands of buildings and laid waste to hundreds of thousands of acres of land.
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DJI Releases Its Own Version Of Apple Care Because Drones Constantly Crash
Everyone’s buying drones nowadays. They’re also crashing all of them. So the world’s biggest drone company has revealed a (pricey) protection plan that covers the next time your (already pricey) drone takes a spill.
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US Drone Pilots Will Start Getting Awards, But Don’t Call Them Medals Quite Yet
Just as American soldiers can be awarded the Silver Star, some have long argued that remote operators of drones should be eligible for war medals as well. New reports indicate they might not be getting medals per se, but they will be getting some kind of award.