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A recent article by Ben Sullivan at Motherboard highlights the challenges faced by those companies attempting to develop drone delivery services. Due to regulatory hurdles in the United States, even for research and development activities, Amazon has been performing tests in the...

Anti-drone technologies are making headlines as security concerns increase along with the proliferation of civilian drones. Some of the technologies are arguably low-tech (e.g., catch a drone with a net carried by another drone). Others seem straight out of Buck Rogers. Case in...

Image: GNS Science Although a 6.0 quake struck today just off the North Island of New Zealand, the big news continues to be the 7.8 quake that struck the South Island on November 14. Geoscience research company GNS Science released dramatic drone video of the approximately 30 km...

Michael Braasch was interviewed by Ryan Severance for his article “New drone advisory group comes to Ohio” in TheNewPolitical.com. The article discusses the advisory group that Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine has formed to create a policy for law enforcement use of...

I’ve been in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metro area for the past two days attending the 2016 International Rotorcraft Safety Conference. Approximately 400 folks from all parts of the helicopter industry are gathered in an effort to improve helicopter safety. Sadly, the biggest...

Image: cnbc.com Michael Braasch was quoted in a 15Sep2016 article “SkyDroner protects against an invading drone” by Uptin Saiidi on CNBC.com. SkyDroner uses cameras to track drones that are entering a region and claims to be able to take control of the drone and force...

UPDATE: 08Aug2016 Sandy Murdock has an excellent article on the JDA Journal website detailing the high degree of professionalism by the Emirates EK521 cabin crew in evacuating the passengers from the plane prior to it being engulfed in flames. Passengers attempting to retrieve...

The pictures and video from this morning’s Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 engine fire are arguably among the most dramatic ever captured for a widebody civilian passenger jet. As reported by CNN and others, the window seat video was captured by passenger Lee Bee Yee. This...

Braasch was interviewed by Luke Dormehl for his article “The FAA’s new rules for commercial drones will likely hinder drone-based delivery” at the website Digital Trends appearing June 22, 2016. Braasch noted that one of the major barriers-to-entry removed by the new...

NASA image As reported by Bloomberg and the Daily Mail, extra bursts of radiation from the Sun will hit the Earth this weekend. This kind of event is formally known as a geomagnetic storm. The popular press hints at the possibility of disruptions to GPS and bird migration but as...