Flirtey, the industry-leading drone delivery service, released today a rare, inside look at the startup company’s headquarters and operations. The five-and-one-half-minute video offers never-before-seen visuals on how Flirtey’s unique inner workings are disrupting traditional logistics, by delivering enhanced convenience to consumers. Flirtey’s cutting-edge technology, creative team, and flexible culture are
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Gregory Crutsinger (PhD) and the team have released a new online masterclass called the Farm Drone Sensor Showdown, built from years of experience using UAVs in precision agriculture. San Francisco, CA. Scholar Farms, a drone educational consultancy that produces state-of-the- art video training materials for drone mapping, today released
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The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch just issued its report into an accident to a DJI Matrice 210 that was being operated commercially to record video footage of an outdoor athletics event. The pilot started to position the aircraft back towards the landing site due to an increase
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Loss of power and control due to electronic speed controller failure, Temple Newsam, Leeds, Yorkshire, 16 March 2019. The DJI Matrice 210 small unmanned aircraft was being operated commercially to record video footage of an outdoor athletics event. The pilot started to position the aircraft back towards the landing site
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Ever wondered what pizza delivery by drone might look like? Check out this video from Uber Eats!
The post Ding Dong. Pizza Drone Delivery! appeared first on RotorDrone.
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Getting Started with CineWhoop
Here’s a quick introduction to Cinewhoops – a type of small drone with prop guards which delivers stunning videos. I will explain how to select components to build your own and a few tips getting it fly nicely! Table of Content What’s a cinewhoop?
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Ground control station GCS hardware refers to the complete set of ground-based hardware systems used to control the UAV. This typically includes the Human-Machine Interface, computer, telemetry, video capture card and aerials for the control, video and data links to the UAV. Smaller UAVs can be operated with a traditional
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5.8GHz FPV Channels Table (Traditional Analogue System)
There are up to 72 FPV channels in the 5.8GHz analogue system. This article contains tables and charts to enable you to look up the specific frequency for each channel and band to ensure the best possible video signal from your rig.
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DropIn, Inc., the leading provider of the on-demand, live video platform for the insurance industry, announced the appointment of Mr. Joseph Shemesh as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Louis Ziskin, founder and former CEO is stepping down amicably to focus his time primarily on further growing SuperCall Inc., the
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Cross-channel cable-lay project looks to Flylogix UAVs to enhance live intelligence over the congested waterway Portsmouth, UK: British technology and aviation business, Flylogix, is pleased to announce the completion of a series of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) operations in the Solent and Channel to provide live video of National Grid’s
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We take the opportunity of the 100th FLIGHT of the R²-150 Development / Qualification aircraft to share for the first time a video of the automatic and autonomous recovery of the aircraft in the ” Net » (or Energy Absorption System as it should be called). This flight was entirely
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How to Get SmartAudio Tramp VTX Control Working in Betaflight 4.1 with VTXTables
Smart Audio and Tramp VTX control are no longer working out of the box in Betaflight 4.1. You now have to configure VTX tables first for your particular video transmitter depending on the protocol it uses.
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Iran shot down an unidentified drone that “infiltrated” near Bandar-e Mahshahr port on the Gulf coast on Friday, Iranian media reported, after the downing of a US drone nearly triggered air strikes earlier this year. IRIB, a state broadcaster, aired a short video purporting to show the interception of the
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The highly anticipated Mini Mavic is here! Weighing a tad more than a half pound and with foldable propeller arms, it’s super easy to transport, and it packs some impressive flight and video features. Here’s the scoop from DJI:
Weighing under 250 grams, Mavic Mini is almost as light as the
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Can you spot the drone in this video? The pilot of the aircraft could not see it. Skilled pilots approaching a runway usually can’t see small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) encroaching on their airspace, and they virtually never detect motionless drones, a newly published study shows. During an airborne
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Automaker Ford has patented a “vehicle-integrated drone” that is programmable and can automatically deploy from cars and trucks in emergencies and fly either autonomously or under pilot control to illuminate accident scenes with lights and sirens, stream photos and video, boost emergency communication, and enhance navigation. The law enforcement applications
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The Russian defense ministry is going to spend a billion roubles ($15.5 million) on procuring the Eleron-3 lightweight unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in 2019-2021, according to an announcement on the ministry’s website earlier this month. The announcement follows a number of news and video releases in August-September that depicted experimental
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OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced the OV12D, a 1.4 micron 12 MP image sensor with selective conversion gain (SCG) for the optimum balance between low-light image quality and high dynamic range (HDR). The OV12D features a large 1/2.4″ optical format, on-chip 4-cell
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Wing is creating a new kind of service to make food, medicine and other items available when you need them. We call it air delivery, and today we’re sharing a video about what we think it can be. Wing’s small, lightweight aircraft can deliver items in minutes. Our navigational software
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Trillium Engineering, a supplier of gimballed camera systems for small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), successfully conducted a test flight of a new video processor that will dramatically improve the operation of Group 2 UAS. The current crop of full-motion video camera systems used on tactical UAS rely on an H.264
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Filming roller coasters with drones is nothing new, but this isn’t just any footage. Recently, an all star flyer managed to capture video with their drone racing alongside the cars of a roller coaster. The pilot, who is clearly skilled, pulled off some crazy maneuvers while getting the footage, and
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A post shared by Edwards Air Force Base (@edwardsairforcebase) on Sep 5, 2019 at 9:48pm PDT This sled is traveling at 6,599 mph (Mach 8.6) in the video and was several miles away from the camera when it began, so it’s covering over a mile roughly every second. Source: Instagram
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Flirtey, the pioneer of the commercial drone delivery industry, has unveiled the Flirtey Eagle, the world’s most advanced drone delivery technology today with Senator Cortez Masto (D-NV) at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The company has released the much-anticipated first video of its next-generation delivery drone performing consumer
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UAVenture and Daedalean have published a teaser video announcing a new guidance system for professional UAVs ● The system is called Magpie and provides unrivaled AI-powered functions – vision-based identification of emergency landing sites during flight, as well as visual navigation that helps sustain GPS outages – in less than
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Cutting-edge video processing offers clearer, more actionable imagery for users on the ground HOOD RIVER, Ore.—September 10, 2019— Trillium Engineering, an industry leader in gimbaled camera systems for small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), successfully conducted a test flight of a new video processor that will dramatically improve the operation of
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