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The (Spokane, Wash.) Spokesman-Review published this minute-long, aerial video of a local event. Jesse Tinsley, the photographer who used an unmanned camera-carrying aircraft to record the video from 30 feet off the ground, said it was “not illegal, but currently in a gray area.” Au contraire, said the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday. “There is no gray area,” said FAA spokesperson Les Dorr. Continue reading
FLIR Systems, Inc. has announced the release of the new FLIR Lepton thermal imaging camera core. Lepton utilizes innovative technology, high volume manufacturing techniques, and commercial scale to deliver a price point that is an order of magnitude below current thermal camera cores. Continue reading
Firefighters tackled a blaze which broke out at UAV Engines Ltd in Shenstone, near Birmingahm in England, on Monday. Two crews from Lichfield and one from Aldridge in the West Midlands attended the incident on Lynn Lane. Continue reading
US-based photo service Cooliris wants to bring dramatic aerial photos instantaneously into the hands of consumers via private groups so users can share them on their iPhones or iPads. Cooliris has announced a partnership with UAS manufacturer Aibotix, becoming the first consumer photo application to integrate with UAS. Continue reading
Built as a Boeing B-17G-105-VE c/n 8693, the future Sally B was one of the last to be constructed by the Lockheed-Vega plant at Burbank, California. Continue reading
William Overstreet Jr., a World War II fighter pilot who in 1944 famously flew his P-51C Mustang through the arches of the Eiffel Tower while in pursuit of a German Messerschmitt Bf 109G aircraft, died at a hospital in Roanoke, Va., on Dec. 29, reported the local paper He was 92. Continue reading
senseFly releases its patent-pending technology for oblique images to enable its fixed-wing mapping UAS to take extraordinary images without the use of a gimbal. Continue reading
A group of researchers from the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets at the University of Kansas is right now at the sub-glacial Lake Whillans field camp on the Whillans Ice Stream in Antarctica. The team is testing a system they’ve devised that includes a 100-watt ice-penetrating radar carried aboard a small unmanned aircraft system. Continue reading