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As reported by various media outlets, a Falcon 50 business jet, carrying the CEO of the French oil company Total (Christophe de Margerie), collided with a snowplow on take-off close to midnight on the evening of Monday, October 20, 2014 at an airport near Moscow. Despite an...

The U.S Air Force launched a new GPS satellite on August 1 and, after the usual orbit insertion and check-out period, it was declared operational on September 17. Another satellite is scheduled for launch on October 29 and four more are scheduled for 2015 through early 2016....

A recent Bloomberg News feature, about helicopters filming for Hollywood, sported shots of helicopters flying at a good clip close to skyscrapers, natural rock walls and other massive objects.

The use of drones for precision cropdusting was pioneered by Yamaha in Japan back in the 1980s. These drones (small helicopters about half the size of a golf cart) have been commercially available since the early 1990s and there are approximately 2,400 operating throughout Japan...

In his 06Oct2014 article in New York Magazine: “Drones and Everything After,” Benjamin Wallace-Wells richly describes the incredible power that drones provide to their human operators. The ability to see the world from a few hundred or a few thousand feet up in the...

Why is there an uproar over a hobby that has been around for over 50 years? Michael addresses the factors that aided in the safe operation of RC aircraft and why they do not exist anymore for modern hobby drones.