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The British Isles are full of little nuggets which surprise you. With Neil Armstrong’s famous words rattling round my brain I went to Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall for the 50th Anniversary of the first moon landing. The station received that transmission from space and beamed it around Europe. If it hadn’t been forRead more about Window on the stars[…]
I attended an all-day seminar this week organised by Dronesafe Register, our professional drone pilot official body who represent us. Here’s a link to Dronesafe Register’s article about the day which is worth a read. We met the senior police officer who is responsible for Gatwick. He had to deal with that nightmarish 30 hourRead more about Dronesafe Register meet at Gatwick for CAA drone pilots[…]
It can be tricky knowing how to go about hiring a drone pilot. The applications are becoming more varied all the time and the business is expanding fast. Do you need a tv shoot, a movie, a structural survey, an agricultural health check or an infra red video of a volcano. a fire or aRead more about How to hire a drone pilot[…]
You are going to love me to bits after you finish reading what I am about to tell you. I get asked how to log drone flight records quickly and simply more than anything else. Flight logs are an essential part of your Operating Manual. Clients love to glance at them to see how experiencedRead more about Flight logging for your drone made simples at airdata.com[…]
Did you know you can broadcast your cool drone shots live to the world? If you are all over that already, then great. If not, here is my step by step pictorial guide on how you set up your link. It is quite easy and it does work really well. I am going to useRead more about How to set up a drone downlink and broadcast live[…]
After MH370 disappeared without trace, its sister aircraft MH17 met a violent end over the Ukraine a few months later. But the story of the plane the world forgot just got more and more weird. The world has moved on from this story and that of its predecessor MH370 after one of the biggest mediaRead more about MH17 – still a mystery[…]
As investigators look into the cause of the Ethiopian Airlines crash, Boeing’s share price has fallen by more than 10% from a week ago, when it hovered near all-time highs. The company, an influential component of the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average, is now worth $25 billion less in market capitalization than it was at this timeRead more about Boeing worth $25 billion less than it was a week ago[…]
Remember Minority Report starring Tom Cruise? Set in the future Cruise plays a cop charged with detecting crimes. Sounds pretty regular so far right? The plot twist is he stops the crime before it happens. Something to do with psychics floating around in a sensory deprivation chamber and reading brain waves. That is what theRead more about They already knew what was wrong with the 737 Max 8[…]
There are 4,000 CAA certified drone pilots in the UK. This number has shot up over the last five years. Drone use for aerial photography and surveying has mushroomed. As a CAA certified drone pilot with a PfCO (permission for commercial operations) I have learned a great deal about the legalities and safety issues aroundRead more about Not a lot of people know that[…]
The Boeing 737 is the most popular passenger plane in the world. Over 6,000 have been made since they came into service in the late sixties.They have one of the best safety records and have flown millions of hours. In the eighties one suddenly rolled on its back when it was about to land andRead more about Boeing 737 Max latest safety issue in plane’s history[…]