RICHMOND — The sprawling field hospital that springs up in rural southwest Virginia every summer has been called the largest health-care outreach operation of its kind. This year, the event may have another first due to the COVID-19 situation. Unmanned aerial vehicles — drones — are supposed to deliver medicine to the Wise County Fairgrounds in[…]
Drones can sometimes be a nuisance, but here’s one that’s downright helpful. An octocopter equipped with a nail gun can fly up and fix the roof autonomously, so you don’t have to. Ella Atkins at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor was inspired to design the system after having to repair her own roof years[…]
The Small Unmanned Aircraft rule (commonly called Part 107) went into effect on August 29, 2016. The rule created a regulatory framework for commercial drone operations, which required commercial pilots to be Part 107 certified and prohibited various types of drone operations, like flying at night or Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS), without a waiver. Since then, the FAA has[…]