Drone Boom: Why Drones Aren’t Just for Dropping Bombs Anymore
When you hear the word drone you may immediately think of bombs being dropped in the Middle East or thesurveillance of citizens here in the United States, but engineers and aviation geeks have wondered for decades if unmanned flight might solve a few of our world’s problems or just make our lives a little easier.
“The technology has reached a point where it can be very inexpensive to buy [unmanned aerial system technology],” says John Villasenor, an engineer at UCLA and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Villasenor says that advances in GPS, airframe design, and flight control methods have made unmanned flight available to pretty much anyone.
http://reason.com/reasontv/2013/08/20/drone-boom-why-drones-arent-just-for-dr
