Businessweek: hybrid drones

Businessweek: hybrid drones

Bloomberg Businessweek has my writeup in the May 11-17, 2015 issue on Top Flight’s hybrid power drones. A gasoline engine on board charges the batteries that run the rotors, giving the drones 2 hours or more of flight time versus the 15-30 minutes more typical...
Businessweek: Drone Traffic Control

Businessweek: Drone Traffic Control

Like it or not, the drones are coming. Delivery services, construction and real estate companies, farmers, and of course photographers and filmmakers will all use them extensively—just as soon as government regulators clear the way. One of the technical challenges...