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A Simple Guide For Which Drones To Buy This Holiday Season

People are gifting drones all over the place, buying them left and right for their cousin, husband, and neighbors this holiday season. The government and top drone companies have estimated that as many as 1,000,000 drones will hit the shelves this holiday season. As with any rapidly increasing market, manufacturers are expanding and updating their […]

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GoPro Shows Off Drone Prototype In Newly Revealed Footage

After announcing plans to release their very own quadcopter, what is better known as a drone, in the first half of 2016, GoPro finally has an advanced prototype. The company released footage of their Hero 4, which is available to buy, attached to a quadcopter. According to the release, there was no post-production stabilization used […]

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Drones Present Opportunity For NFL, Just Not At Super Bowl 50

On September 17, the Federal Aviation Administration granted the NFL permission for drone usage, but with this came several conditions. Drones are not to be used during games, only over empty stadiums to shoot films, documentaries and television sports. The NFL is the first major U.S sports league to receive approval of drones. The drone […]

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NFL Drones Are Cleared For Take Off By FAA

The Federal Aviation Administration has granted permission to the NFL to film using drones, in a letter dated September 17. Fans shouldn’t get too excited though, as the filming must be limited to empty stadiums and therefore cannot yet be used to film live game footage. The conversation began in June when the NFL began […]

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Dolphins Owner Invests $1 Million in Drone Racing League

Commonly referred to as the worst movie of the Star Wars saga, “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” does have one redeeming feature—pod racing. Ask anybody of a certain age, including this writer, and they will tell you of their numerous vivid dreams of being inside one of those machines, and racing it across […]

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