Sentences with phrase «drone flight took»
In Ifanadiana, the district where the drone flights took place, travel to medical facilities can take a day or more by foot, across treacherous terrain.
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If he gets his wish, on Christmas morning Gabriel will be joining the millions of other drone hobbyists who have already taken flight this year.
The FAA expects as many as 11 million commercial drones to join the millions of recreational drones already taking flight by 2020.
Photographs of the flight deck taken while the drone was landed were also featured by media outlets including the BBC and MailOnline.
Aquila, Facebook's solar - powered internet - beaming drone, finally took flight.
Speaking of wind: The windier it gets the harder it is to pilot a drone so be patient at first and take your drone for it's first test flight on a day with calm weather.
Take your phone, open the drone app and use your finger to draw a customized flight route on your screen.
The built - in camera allows you to take pictures and videos during flight and a choreography function even allows you to pre-set commands through the corresponding app on your phone and watch the drone carry them out!
The drone can be connected to your phone, so you can view video taken by the built - in camera while the drone is in flight, giving you a bird's - eye perspective.
The altitude hold function provides a stable flight and four different speeds let you take this drone from low to high without a hitch.
A hacker has shown how easy it is to use one drone to hijack another, allowing someone else to take control of its flight.
During these test flights, which ranged from 15 - minute jaunts to reconnaissance journeys lasting nearly three hours, the crew took note of the drones» successes and limitations, Unvala says.
In a press conference on Monday afternoon, US secretary of transportation Anthony Foxx announced that the government will soon require recreational drone users to register with a national database before taking flight.
When drones first took off in the news, Fleming mixed them into her makerspace under the theme of flight.
While your squad of friendly feds remain stuck on the ground, engaged in firefights, the drone takes to flight above the snow - covered Brooklyn rooftops and enjoys a bird's eye view of the battle.
During the flights, the drones captured images to use for identification of individual whales and photogrammetry studies which allow them to take body measurements from the photos.
DARPA's maple seed - inspired drone has taken flight, and can be remote controlled to fly around
This article appeared in the July 2017 issue of the ABA Journal with the headline «Taking Flight: Navigating drone laws has become a growing and lucrative legal niche.»
However, before any of these commercial drones can take flight, they need to clear a series of legal hurdles, from winning FAA approval to sorting out liability and privacy issues.
Many experts say that, thanks to advances in battery technology, artificial intelligence, and drones, we're closer than ever to seeing real VTOL aircraft take flight.
Roberts obliged, taking his own drone on a flight over the campus, this time on the hunt for another quadcopter rather than dramatic footage of the remarkable donut - shaped building that forms the centerpiece of Apple's new headquarters.
(At least, until those Amazon delivery drones take flight.)
The rules unveiled today will help more real estate professionals take flight, making the efficiency and innovation that drones have to offer available to a much broader base of operators.»
If there's one real estate trend that's surely taken flight over the last couple years, it's drones (pun very much intended).