using a drone to destroy a hornets' nest

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/ap4g29/drone_out_a_hornets_nest_with_ease/

How to use your $800 Mavic for alternative purposes.

Drones to track bees

https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/using-drones-to-track-bees/article_1dd486bd-f0ff-5f57-9909-3a9f52c9515f.html

"North Dakota is the nation’s leader in honey production. The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks is a leader in drones and drone research.

That led Bee Innovative, an Australian company, to pair up with UND to enhance the company’s current drone technology that tracks bee movements and pollination patterns, the two companies announced Jan. 30."


I still don't get the details of this, and I wonder how many bees get chopped up by the drone meanwhile.

more dorks with drones at airport

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/22/us/newark-drone-sightings/index.html

"Flights into and out of New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport were disrupted Tuesday night after two drones were reported flying over nearby Teterboro Airport.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Greg Martin told CNN that the agency stopped flights at the airport after the drones were reported over the smaller regional airport some 15 miles away. Both airports serve the greater metro New York City area.

The two drones were flying at 3,500 feet and have since cleared the airspace over the airport, Martin said."

Houthis use drone to attack parade

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2019/01/10/houthis-use-armed-drone-to-target-yemeni-army-top-brass/

"On January 10, 2019 a drone reportedly targeted a Yemeni government base during a military parade, allegedly killing six people and wounding many others, including several senior officers. Analysis of the attack indicates that a variant of an Ababil T drone, referred to as a Qasef 1 by Houthi forces, was used to attack the parade. This article will analyse the event and its potential implications."

precise drone flying

https://www.reddit.com/r/nonononoyes/comments/aeiald/drone_pilot_takes_the_riskiest_dive/

Not bad.  I only fly for photography, so I've never tried such flying.

Solution to wayward drones?

https://www.tampabay.com/news/military/tampa-tech-company-offers-solutions-to-counter-drones-a-growing-threat-20190107/

"Brought in by the Fort Lauderdale Police Department to help protect the show, which featured the Navy’s Blue Angel aerial demonstration team, FLYMOTION detected 46 drone flights in the temporary flight restriction zone set up by the Federal Aviation Administration. Seven of those drones were detected in the airspace where the performances were taking place. By tracing the drone signals back to the base station operating them, FLYMOTION helped police track down some of those disregarding the rules.
By honing in on the radio frequency links between the base stations and drones, FLYMOTION 'detected, identified and located all 46 flights,' said English, a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue and the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office."

This makes sense, of course, unless the droner has created countermeasures to being detected.

It's going to be an endless struggle against idiot drone operators.

Donald Trump knows more about drones than anybody

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/02/foremost-experts-various-topics-according-trump-most-whom-are-trump/?fbclid=IwAR1UGkfHLN2Yxf0ACMaZCgiRIABrh9Y3d_LJgLRzfps0tiwbFyzUqoDCxMU&utm_term=.912e8679e46a

"I know more about drones than anybody," Trump said.

This is possible, I suppose. Perhaps Trump has spent an inordinate amount of time studying unmanned aircraft during his tenure in the White House, or, perhaps, he brought to the job years worth of analysis on the subject. It just seems as though perhaps it’s hyperbolic. Even if we constrain the comment to the context in which it was offered — the use of drones to patrol the border — it seems unlikely that Trump is the foremost authority on the subject in the world.