Sentences with phrase «by flying drones»

Earning money by flying drones isn't easy, but if you have the technical chops and are willing to invest the time, you could earn some serious beans.

With a one or two - person squad, the remaining slots can be taken over by flying drones that assist the team with additional firepower.

The researchers also hope to carry out experiments in more realistic environments, for instance by flying drones through a thunderstorm.

Not exact matches

Regardless, the FAA allows drones for personal use, as long as operators follow the rules set by hobby groups, such as flying below 400 feet, always within the operator's line of sight and away from manned aircraft and stadiums.

It may sound a little like something out of an episode of the «The Jetsons,» but the reality is the Federal Aviation Administration is required to implement regulations to integrate commercial drones into the national airspace by 2015, meaning flying robots are going to become a lot more common in the U.S.

Avoiding the word «drones» because it evokes security concerns, the Chicago start - up, founded last fall by Jackie Wu, Ritwik Ummalaneni and Florent D'Souza, has developed a flying indoor security camera using a craft it calls «quad copters.»

Last December, a report by a Bard College research group on drone incidents said that from December 2013 through September 2015, there were 28 incidents involving airplane pilots taking evasive action to avoid a drone while flying.

In the project, which will be carried out by Alphabet's research arm X, human operators will fly drones carrying cargo beyond their field of vision.

The FAA also hopes to finalize a proposal to the new ruling that will allow drones to fly safely over people by the end of this year, Huerta said.

FILE PHOTO: A Phantom drone by DJI company, equipped with a camera, flies during the 4th Intergalactic Meeting of Phantom's Pilots (MIPP) in an open secure area in the Bois de Boulogne, western Paris, March 16, 2014.

On the days that they fly, four drone pilots sit inside a cavernous arena barraged by intense, strobing lights.

It is one of seven test sites sanctioned by the Federal Aviation Administration and an anchor for a 50 - mile corridor that allows drones to fly beyond line of sight.

In Germany, meanwhile, Chancellor Angela Merkel saw a small UAV flown by protesters crash - land in front of her at a political event, and a group of protesters staged a protest during a German parliamentary debate on the procurement of armed drones for the Bundeswehr.

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Federal aviation officials, battered by complaints that bureaucratic hurdles are preventing industry from realizing the economic benefits of drones, announced they are streamlining rules to expedite permits to fly small, commercial unmanned aircraft.

The bill — introduced Wednesday by Kolb — would place restrictions on where and how you're allowed to fly a drone.

Parker Gyokeres, owner of Propellerheads Aerial Photography, who operated the drone at Maloney's wedding, and was paid by Maloney's videographer, acknowledged in an interview Monday the «FAA has straight banned everyone from flying.»

New York NOW travels to Central New York, a site chosen by the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct research on how best to safely fly drones in public airspace.

With bee populations tumbling, an autonomous drone just 4 centimetres wide could help pollinate crops by flying from flower to flower

All right, here is what that means, step by step: This impressive drone allows your child to experience flying using through their smartphone (easily mounted to the remote) and alternatively through a 3D virtual reality headset (see recommended accessories below).

Additional motor at the tail of Nsphere drone provides extra lifting force when trying vertical take - off and offers extra thrust power, by tilting the motor upward, while flying forward.

As of October 2012, 81 law agencies, universities, an Indian tribal agency and other entities had applied to the FAA to fly drones, according to documents released by the FAA to the Electronic Freedom Frontier following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

The sensors are even able to detect when a drone flies close by overhead — provided, of course, that the drone contains metal.

A reconnaissance drone has flown for two days straight, fuelled by a laser beam that transmits energy from the ground to the aircraft.

Colorado and colleagues in Madrid and at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, have built a drone with a half - metre wingspan inspired by a type of bat called the grey - headed flying fox.

The first powered, fixed - wing aircraft ever to fly was an uncontrolled steam - powered drone built by American aviation pioneer Samuel Langley.

«Flies could help to monitor disease outbreaks by acting as «autonomous bionic drones» suggest scientists.»

The helicopters carrying water to douse the fire could not engage because of the drones flying close by, Correll said.

Those made by DJI, one of the biggest firms, already come loaded with such software, preventing them from flying where drone operation is illegal, such as over airports and military bases.

Today's radiometric thermal cameras coupled with small inexpensive, easy to fly drones, which can be controlled by a smartphone or tablet, have made aerial thermography more accurate, comprehensive and accessible.

Another way to observe hurricanes is by flying airplanes and drones over, in front of and into the storms.

The jacket I'm wearing is letting me fly a drone around a virtual university campus just by spreading my arms and moving my body from side to side — like a kid pretending to be a plane.

«It's really hard to follow rules if you don't know what the rules are, or that they apply to you,» Foxx noted Monday afternoon, and though the secretary did not explicitly state which rules he was talking about, he seemed to be referring to the existing restrictions on flights near airports and major outdoor sporting events, as well as the common - sense drone - flight guidelines promulgated by the «Know Before You Fly» campaign.

It lets you dispense with touch and control everything from computers to flying drones, just by moving the muscles in your forearm.

Mishaps involving drones are now regular news, whether flying too close to aircraft, hitting people and property, or bothering neighbours by hovering over homes.

Small children played marbles next door as Howitzer - like guns went off and drones flew around and were fired at by soldiers with automatic rifles trying to shoot them down before they could drop grenades.

In fact, you can spend an amazing time with your dad and get to know him better by learning how to fly a drone.

By directing our attention to these blatant visual comparisons between the slates of inconspicuous Vegas neighborhoods and the tactical POV of high - flying drones drifting above unsuspected, Niccol's invades our sense of docility, in a somewhat subtle attempt to plant us in harm's way and daring to jolt us into action and ultimately caring.

Under the final rule, the person actually flying a drone must be at least 16 years old and have a remote pilot certificate with a small UAS rating, or be directly supervised by someone with such a certificate.

The Jeep brethren know you're not simply existing, a downtrodden drone inhaling stale exhaust fumes while the rest of the world flies by.

Meteora is a stunning location to capture by drone and, with no flying restrictions in place yet, it's the perfect spot to focus on some aerial photography.

They were either going to bomb the piss out of the compound with two - thousand - pound ordnance, they were going to send us in, do some kind of joint thing with the Pakis, or try what was called a «hammer throw,» where a drone flies by and chucks one fucking bomb at the guy.

Secondly, health drones fly by every round offering up a little boost to your ever - dwindling life supply.

With the help of the videographer Flying World Pictures, Havard creates these romantic photos by directing the drone operator from the ground.

An autonomous flying swarm of 300 drones, FRANCHISE FREEDOM exposes the tension between individual freedom and safety by numbers.

An autonomous flying swarm of 300 drones, it is the first time that a natural phenomenon will be imitated by machines working with decentralised algorithms at this scale.

They test surface - to - air missiles by shooting down drone aircraft flying on a steady course.

Users will be able to earn «nature coins» by clicking through different forest carbon projects, pick a line on a map and watch footage from a drone as it flies through a rainforest, and buy «digital rights» to certain hectares of land conserved through a carbon investment.

And what better way to provide power to delivery drones in rural areas than through an existing network of solar charging systems, which could serve as tiny hubs for expanding the area reachable by these little flying robots.

The call for proposals announced today by SESAR aims to select one project demonstrating the active geo - fencing of drones flying below 500 feet (around 152 meters).