Tag: Drones

Backers say drones will prove useful for farmers

Backers say drones will prove useful for farmers

Washington Examiner · March 24, 2014 12:12 am

FILE - This March 12, 2014 file photo shows a drone landing after flying over the scene of an explosion that leveled two apartment buildings in East Harlem in New York. Brian Wilson, the owner, says he uses the aerial drone to document buildings, weddings and news events. The Federal Aviation Administration bars commercial use of drones no matter how seemingly benign. Officials say rules to address the special safety challenges associated with unmanned aircraft need to be in place before they can share the sky with manned aircraft and final regulations could be years away. But tempting technology and an eager marketplace are outrunning the aviation agency's best intentions. Photographers, real estate agents, moviemakers, and others are hurrying to embrace the technology. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

US lags as commercial drones take off around globe

Associated Press · March 17, 2014 4:00 am

UN: Drone use down in Pakistan, up in Afghanistan

John Heilprin · March 12, 2014 3:04 pm

Hamas military wing members take part in a ceremony to inaugurate a monument marking the anniversary of the death of a senior Hamas official Ibrahim Maqadama, killed in an Israeli air strike in 2003, in Gaza City , Monday, March 10, 2014. The monument represents a model of the Hamas made longer-range M75 missile which has a range of about 80 kilometers and was used for the first time in 2012 against targets in Israel. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israeli drone crashes in Gaza; airstrike kills 3

Ibrahim Barzak · March 11, 2014 3:51 pm

Jon McBride, who designs and builds drones with Digital Defense Surveillance, flies a training drone for members of the the Box Elder County Sheriff's Office search and rescue team, during a demonstration, in Brigham City, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

National Security

States wrestle with developing, restricting drones

Michelle Price · March 11, 2014 4:00 am

Judge dismisses FAA fine against small drone user

Judge dismisses FAA fine against small drone user

Joan Lowy · March 7, 2014 12:45 am

Utah legislative panel approves limits on drones

Utah legislative panel approves limits on drones

Michelle Price · February 25, 2014 6:47 pm

The small well water treatment plant that services the neighbors of the Flemington Road community located in Wilmington, N.C.. The facility is located nearby the L.V. Sutton Complex operated by Duke Energy just outside of Wilmington. Members of the community feel the plant could be polluting well water with spill off and seepage from large coal ash ponds nearby the treatment plant. (AP Photo/Randall Hill)

Energy and Environment

Drone used to estimate size of North Carolina coal ash spill

Associated Press · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, a Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. A U.S. military drone strike in Yemen in December 2013 may have killed up to a dozen civilians on their way to a wedding and injured others, including the bride, a human rights group says. U.S. officials say only members of al-Qaida were killed, but they have refused make public the details of two U.S. investigations into the incident.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

National Security

Report: US drone may have killed dozen civilians

Kimberly Dozier · February 20, 2014 2:47 pm

This December 2013 photo, taken by a camera mounted on a drone aircraft and provided by Pedro Rivera, shows Rivera in Hartford, Conn. Rivera filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, alleging that Hartford police officers violated his rights by demanding he stop using the aircraft to record images of an auto accident. (AP Photo/Pedro Rivera)

Journalist sues police who questioned drone use

Michael Melia · February 18, 2014 9:37 pm

A high-speed camera captures the first full-energy shots from an electromagnetic launcher at a test facility in Dahlgren, Va. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, John F. Williams)

National Security

Navy ready to deploy laser for first time

David Sharp · February 18, 2014 5:00 am

UAE developing drones for citizen services

UAE developing drones for citizen services

Washington Examiner · February 12, 2014 4:27 pm