Dubai and Sharjah airports closed due to drone October 29, 2016 by Roberta Pennington http://www.thenational.ae/uae/dubai-and-sharjah-airports-closed-due-to-drone Last night (10/29) a Dubai airport was closed for approximately an hour due to “unauthorized drone activity”. Just like we have talked about in class, it is illegal to fly a drone within 5 kilometers of a Dubai airport, (for […]
TECH INSPIRED BY NIKOLA TESLA CHARGES DRONES IN MID-AIR. Kelsey D. Atherton. October 21, 2016 Students at Imperial College London have made the world’s first wireless flying drone. They were inspired by Nikola Teslas work and built off his tesla coils design. These students took a regular consumer drone and removed the battery from it. […]
Pentagon Confronts a New Threat From ISIS: Exploding Drones (Michael S. Schmidt and Eric Schmitt, 10/ 11/16) Two Kurdish fighters were killed by an Islamic State drone which marks the first successful use of drones by the Islamic State against enemy forces. After shooting down the drone the Kurdish forces were taking it apart when […]
FedEx’s Carter Talks Amazon, Drones, and Innovation (Micahel Sheffield, 9/22/2016) In an attempt to keep up with Amazon and their strides towards using drones to deliver packages, Rob Carter, vice president of FedEx, talked about the prospect of using drones as well. Carter pointed out that one of the dangers of moving to drones as […]