Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Drones”
Snow ended on February 9th in Danville, Pennsylvania and I decided to take out the DJI Phantom 4 to grab a few shots. The temperatures were below 32 degrease Fahrenheit and the winds were pretty strong but the Phantom 4 performed very well. I did notice a reduction in battery life and the Phantom 4 was flying with a tilt in …
Praetorian and DroneSense team up Pergam Technical Services Inc. released the first UAS sensor designed to detect and measure methane gas Panoptes Systems Corp. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has developed the eBumper4, a sensor system that keeps UAVs a safe distance away from objects Verizon Wireless and Florida-based Tayzu Robotics, a UAS manufacturer, are developing a site in the Cayman Islands …
Hexacopter flight times over an hour should soon become possible. Chinese drone manufacturer Walkera has decided to go beyond the battery, teaming up with micro-generator producers at GenSmart to build a new hybrid powertrain for its QR X900 professional heavy lifter. A tiny, efficient methanol motor charges the battery during flight, allowing long flight times and instant refueling and it …
Last May, we heard about how Horizon Energy Systems was developing ahydrogen-powered quadcopter that could (hopefully) stay airborne for hours at a time. Soon, however, that drone may not be the only one doing so. That’s because Intelligent Energy has unveiled a fuel cell/battery range extender that could become standard equipment on third-party drones.
When people suggest possible uses for electric multicopter drones, it frequently seems like they’re forgetting something – presently, most such aircraft can only fly for a maximum of around 25 minutes per battery charge. Horizon Energy Systems, however, is developing a quadcopter that should do a lot better. Known as the Hycopter, the fuel cell-powered drone is hoped to be …
Camera-carrying hobby drones are now large and sophisticated enough to allow anyone to take stills and videos that once would have required a helicopter. Unfortunately, that capability is marred when the drone’s landing gear keeps getting in the way or when getting that video of a mountain glen means trekking in with an unwieldy flying machine.Yuneec International‘s Typhoon H hexacopter …
Mike attended CES 2016 in Las Vegas. About 170,000 attendees 2 million + square feet of expo space 27 drone vendors Yuneec’s Typhoon H drone was capturing a lot of attention
Jeff and Mike attended the Disrupted by Drones seminar at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. Join us on December 9th at 8:00AM in the Pennsylvania State Museum’s Allegheny Room for an UPNEXT mini-conference focusing on the all things UAV. We’ll be discussing the regulatory landscape outlined by the FAA and its affect on the commercial and advanced hobbyist use of UAVs (aka Drones) in the US Commercial Airspace. We’ll also discuss UAS/UAV …
Jeff, Jackson and Mike attended the National Drone Show Expo in Washington DC to learn more about drones and video. The National Drone Show is an exciting new conference and expo for the burgeoning drone marketplace—a marketplace in which unmanned aerial systems are expected to exceed $8 billion by 2018, with the commercial sector exceeding $5 billion. The National Drone …