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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.

Radio interview of Michael Braasch by Ann Fisher on “All Sides with Ann Fisher,” WOSU Public Media, May 21, 2014 Description Journalists, farmers, and filmmakers see exciting potential in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or drones. But the FAA claims they are unsafe and violate the...

 Interview of Michael Braasch by Mark Huffman, CONSUMERaffairs.com, January 13, 2014 By Mark Huffman Mark Huffman has been a consumer news reporter for ConsumerAffairs since 2004. He covers real estate, gas prices and the economy and has reported extensively on negative-option...

Braasch interview excerpt in: “Drone Schools Suggest Inevitability Of Drones In Everyday Life” by Frederick Reese, MintPress News, May 20, 2013 This week, the United States Navy launched its drone prototype, the X-47B, from the deck of the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush off the coast of...

Braasch interview excerpt in: “Looser FAA regulations to help drone expansion at universities” by Stephanie Yang, Medill National Security Zone, March 18, 2013   Drones have become increasingly common at U.S. universities for research and career preparation. According to the...

Braasch interview excerpt in: “Drone U.” by Allie Grasgreen, Inside Higher Ed, February 27, 2013   As Congress debates when and how the executive branch should be allowed to use drones for targeted killing in war zones, more universities here are seeking permission to use...

Braasch interview excerpt in: “Drone aircraft use spreads to Northeast Ohio, privacy advocates express concern” by Sabrina Eaton, Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 12, 2013   The use of unmanned drone aircraft is spreading from the battlefields of the Middle East to the...