The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is responsible for investigating civil transportation accidents. This includes aviation accidents and incidents, some highway crashes, ship and marine accidents, pipeline incidents and railroad accidents. They also make...
Click photo to see video. The Federal Aviation Administration has permitted limited use of drones on movie and TV locations to seven aerial photo and video production companies. A certificate of airworthiness is not required because the FAA has determined that drones...
A group consisting of commercial drone operators, hobbyists, and several research universities have joined in lawsuits against the FAA's rules about unmanned aerial vehicles. The lawsuits were filed on behalf of the Academy of Model Aeronautics which represents...
The Police Department of San Jose California believes it does not need FAA authorization in order to fly a drone such as the DJI Phantom Aerial UAV Drone Quadcopter for GoPro. The Federal Aviation Administration disagrees. The SJPD purchased a Century Neo 660...
An 82 year old Wisconsin man had been missing for three days. Search dogs, helicopters and hundreds of volunteers searched for him without luck. The elderly man has dementia and was believed to have been without food, water, or shelter for three days. The fear was...
* FPV is First Person View This fun-to-fly helicopter can fly at 35 mph and as high as 900 feet. Includes an HD camera for 1080p video as well as photos, but what really makes the difference is the 3-axis gimbal stabilization of the camera and lens which makes it easy...
by Richard Edmund Kele Stanley, an Ohio man, is facing felony charges after flying his remote-controlled drone over an accident scene on April 12, 2014 in Moorefield Township, Ohio. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Kele Stanley is charged with misconduct at an...
How many times have you seen these kinds of shots in movies? A lot! But the difference is that this is the real thing. Skybox Imaging builds and launches small satellites to shoot video of earth. They claim the above video is the world’s first commercial,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed the Federal Aviation Administration's only fine against a commercial drone user on the grounds that the small drone was no different than a model aircraft, a decision that appears to undermine the agency's power to keep...
As a Connecticut photojournalist moves forward with legal action against a police department after being suspended for flying a camera-equipped aerial drone, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is publishing information on its website to clarify rules and...
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