by Steven Flynn | Mar 15, 2018 | Aerial Filming, Drone Industry, Drone Journalism, Drone Regulations, Skytango, Uncategorized, Weekly Top Drone News
What does the compliance wave in the drone industry hold for drone operators? There have been huge advances in drone technology in recent years, but what does the future hold for pilots dealing with clients who are increasingly concerned about protecting themselves...
by Steven Flynn | Nov 8, 2017 | Drone Industry
Drone Pilot Ground School recently launched a scholarship to support U.S. high school students who want to become certified commercial drone pilots. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics or STEM, is a curriculum, based on the idea of educating students in...
by Anna Jackman | Nov 5, 2017 | Drone Industry
Drones are being used increasingly for emergency services, but how can emergency services leverage and safely deploy such technology? This week Skytango hosts a special guest post by Anna Jackman, Lecturer at Royal Holloway University, on the reasons why drones are...
by Hugh Shelley | Oct 27, 2017 | Drone Industry, Drone Journalism, Drone Regulations
The FAA has granted a waiver to CNN allowing the media company to fly drones over crowds, covering public assemblies to a height of 150 feet (45 meters). The first of its kind to allow untethered flight to this degree, this waiver is the product of two years of...
by Steven Flynn | May 24, 2017 | Drone Industry
AMA’s analysis of the FAA reported sightings data confirms that the vast majority of reports are simply sightings of UAS sharing the airspace. Reported near misses and close calls remain very small – just 3.4%. The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) has published its...
by Steven Flynn | May 22, 2017 | Drone Industry
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University successfully taught a drone to fly autonomously by deliberately crashing it 11,500 times into random objects. Dhiraj Gandhi, Lerrel Pinto and Abhinav Gupta, three roboticists out of Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania,...
