A new kind of competition has taken off: drone racing. "60 Minutes Sports" got up a closer look. The pilots wear FPV goggles so they are receiving streaming video from a camera on the drone.
Drone racing may become so addictive.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drone-racing-as-sport-takes-flight/
A small plane crashed on a Southern California freeway Saturday, slamming into a car and killing a woman in the vehicle. 1 killed and 5 others injured.
Australian farmers will soon be able to fly drones weighing up to 25 kilograms over their property without an unmanned aircraft operators certificate. That is a drone that can take a pretty good payload, a bit of chemical around for crop spraying, cameras and other gear to do visual inspections.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-01/new-drone-regulations-to-benefit-farmers/7293392
Amateur astronomers have filmed what looked like meteor crashes on Jupiter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/03/30/amateur-astronomers-captured-footage-of-a-space-rock-crashing-into-jupiter/
Deadly crash of pilot and co-pilot in the Iles de la Madeleine. The plane - MU-2 was first built in the 1950s and was involved in hundreds of crashes causing more than 330 deaths.
http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/plane-involved-in-deadly-crash-has-spotty-safety-record-1.2838309
Michigan testing drones for bridge inspections. A traditional bridge inspection for example typically involves setting up work zones, detouring traffic and using heavy equipment. Drones are safe, reliable and less expensive.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/03/28/michigan-drones-bridge-inspections/82356034/
A passenger of an Airbus A321 opened the emergency exit door because he wanted to go to the bathroom causing a three-hour delay and costing the airline tens of thousands of dollars.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-29/don-t-open-plane-s-emergency-door-for-the-toilet-
Police using drones in the search for missing people. The two-year-old boy was playing outside with the family dogs when he disappeared Tuesday evening. It's the fourth day of a search for Manitoba toddler Chase Martens.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2601141/how-police-are-using-drones-in-the-search-for-chase-martens-and-other-missing-people/
The Hypersonic aircraft revolution: The Boom concept plane could fly New York to London in 3.4 hours with fares a quarter of the price than Concorde.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/24/aviation/boom-supersonic-plane-virgin-space-company/index.html
Military UAVs are considered a key component and an integral part of a country's defense system. This conducted to new report being added: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Market, By Value and Volume Analysis and Forecast, 2015-2020.
http://www.econotimes.com/Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles-UAV-Market-By-Value-and-Volume-Analysis-and-Forecast-2015-2020-182123
Passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia crashes on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport. All the 55 passengers aboard and seven crew members died.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-crash-idUSKCN0WL036
The 27th annual Women in Aviation International Conference took place last week in Nashville, Tennessee, bringing women with a passion for aviation together from all over the world. The event breaks records with nearly 5,000 participants.
http://www.flyingmag.com/women-in-aviation-breaks-records
The wildlife monitoring projects move from traditional methods to drone technology. The research found that drones are much more precise at monitoring the size of seabird colonies in tropical and polar environments than more traditional ground counts.
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-drones-revolutionize-ecological.html
It’s one of the most famous places in U.S. history, and these clips will probably be the last aerial drone footage ever recorded of Area 51. Hans Faulkner took in August 2015 some footage of the super-secret government base.
http://www.blastr.com/2016-3-14/might-be-last-aerial-drone-footage-ever-recorded-area-51
Drones are the latest policing tool to monitor rowdy spring breakers. Unlike bigger cities with access to helicopters, police in the Gulf Coast resort community decided to add drones to their arsenal because they wanted a way to monitor chaotic crowds from above.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/03/09/the-latest-policing-tool-to-monitor-rowdy-spring-breakers-drones/
Foodpanda hopes to become one of the first takeaway services to start using drones to deliver orders in Hong-Kong markets. The start-up wants to be fully automated after becoming operationally profitable in all its markets in February.
http://www.scmp.com/tech/article/1925091/skys-limit-drone-food-deliveries-foodpanda-eyes-new-hong-kong-markets
Teenager from U.K. wins world drone racing competition, The World Drone Prix, in Dubai. The competition tests the drone's speed and a pilot's agility, with built-in obstacles and tight turns.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/12/470199604/world-drone-racing-competition-underway-in-dubai
The Army wants to equip individual soldiers with drones to give them greater tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities in the field.
https://gcn.com/articles/2016/03/11/soldier-drones.aspx
A video has captured a plane flipping around at a New Zealand airport as it tried to land with one of its wheels missing. The two people on the plane that landed at Hamilton Airport were not injured.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11603427
NASA's scientific balloon team in New Zealand is preparing for the fourth flight of an 18.8 million cubic foot balloon, with an aim to achieve an ultra-long duration flight of up to 100 days at mid-latitudes. Longer-duration flights provide the opportunity for longer observations of scientific phenomena or ability to survey more sources.
http://www.aerospace-technology.com/news/newsnasa-prepares-for-new-balloon-flight-in-new-zealand-4830962