Your Drone Cheat Sheet

Who are the key players? What are the big debates? And why do they freak so many people out?


 

Ryan Calo

Calo is a University of Washington law professor who has argued that drones may help propel larger conversations about the juncture of technology and privacy.

Lisa Ellman

A former White House staffer, Ellman has pushed to open U.S. airspace to commercial drone flights.

Paul Misener

Amazon executive Misener has contributed to the company’s plans for delivery drones.

Rand Paul

In 2013, the Republican senator from Kentucky carried out an almost 13-hour Senate filibuster warning against the possibility of domestic drone strikes.

Stephen Ross

Ross, owner of the Miami Dolphins, invested $1 million in the Drone Racing League, helping to legitimize the nascent sport.

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Drones are Changing Tourism Marketing

Drones represent a great marketing tool for the tourism industry, which has always been one of the quickest to adopt new technologies.

The ability to produce innovative and affordable aerial videos and photographs has been one of the primary reasons drones have created a stir in this industry.

If tourism organizations and marketers haven’t yet started to take into account drone content and drone user-generated content in their marketing strategies and haven’t started to move their audience toward drone content creation and collaboration in their customer engagement strategies, they will do it soon.
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Rare Albino Reindeer Filmed in the Wild by Drone in Norway

A pair of Norway teenagers taking drone footage near the town of Bodo captured rare video of an albino reindeer in the wild.

The video, posted to YouTube by user NorwayByAir, features drone footage recorded by two teenagers with a passion for nature and wildlife.

The video shows an albino reindeer running through a field near some woods and occasionally stopping to investigate the drone.