Agricultural Drones Are Showed Off During the “Agweek” Farm Show
For the last 40 years, Rochester, Minnesota, has been holding the Agweek Farm Show. In 2021, Agweek was a virtual event, but from March 8-9, 2022, the show returned to…
Using Drones to Protect the US/Mexico Border
Spanning 1,954 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, with 48 sanctioned border crossing stations, there are approximately 350 million documented US-Mexico crossings each year. Within the…
Black Swift Technologies (BST) Creates Drones For Extreme Environments
After receiving his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011, Jack Elston founded Black Swift Technologies (BST) in Boulder, CO. As stated in Jack’s…
Drones Being Used in Search and Rescue Missions
In North America, search and rescue (SAR) operations are overseen by a wide range of organizations. SAR is carried out by federal and local governments as well as local volunteer…
Major League Baseball (MLB) Embracing Drones
Though baseball is known as the official American sport, its popularity has declined in recent years. Games take too long, lack thrills, and there’s little to immerse fans in…
FAA Partners With Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma To Engage In Parcel Drone Deliveries
As part of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, the FAA set out to initiate a 5 year program that would focus on the incorporation…
Mexico Sending 5 Nano Ground Drones to the Moon To Collect a Wide Range of Samples
This July will mark 53 years since Niel Armstrong and the crew of Apollo 11 walked on the moon. Though it was not the first or last moon exploration mission,…
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Working on Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) for Drones
As the largest transportation agency in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is faced with a daunting amount of responsibility. They regulate all aspects of civil aviation, including…
Cinematographer Built a Custom Drone to Film Snowboarders
Travis Rice from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is one of the best snowboarders in the world. He is particularly known for his freestyle snowboarding skills. Snowboarder magazine has ranked Travis #13…
Neil Squire Foundation Helps Create a Drone That Can be Flown By A Paralyzed Person
In 1980, Neil Squire’s car hit a patch of black ice. Neil woke up in a hospital paralyzed from the neck down, without the ability to speak, and reliant on…
