What is Drone and how it works ?

Marc Gross uses Google Earth and drones to shoot elephants with Capsaicin paintballs, deterring them from poachers.

Boeing is developing a spy drone that has a wingspan of 120 m and can remain airborne for 5 years at a time without having to land.

Years before Kelly Johnson designed the SR-71 Blackbird, he designed an even faster drone called the X-7. It flew over 130 flights and exceeded Mach 4.3, and was developed into the AQM-60 drone. Both were made of Steel.

A tourist controlled drone crashed into one of Yellowstone’s most delicate hot springs. Drones are now banned from all US National Parks.

The Pentagon plans to seed the ocean floor with payloads of sensors, drones, and other devices, which will lay dormant waiting to be called into action to aid U.S. forces. This program is called “Upward Falling Payload.

A Dutch police force is training eagles to combat drones.

There is a drone big enough to carry a person. The electric-powered drone can be fully charged in two hours, carry up to 220 pounds and fly for 23 minutes. Costs $200,000 to $300,000

Iraqi insurgents intercepted video feeds of American Predator drones using a $26 piece of Russian software named SkyGrabbe

Students from TU Delft developed an Ambulance Drone equipped with medical supplies, camera, and a speaker. The operator will then instruct the user through the speaker to use the equipment and save the person’s life, this supposedly would increase survival rates from 8% to 80%

The FAA estimates within 15 years there will be over 20,000 drones in the U.S. watching us from the skies

A company was planning on using autonomous drones to deliver goods before Amazon. They are currently using their technology to quickly deliver medical supplies to areas without roads in Africa

A Dutch activist group used a drone to deliver “pregnancy termination” drugs to women in Poland because abortion is illegal in the country

30% of all US military aircrafts are drones, a six-fold increase since 2005.

Marilyn Monroe built remote controlled drones during WWII

The 1980s Iran-Iraq war was the only war in history that featured ballistic missile exchanges and battles between helicopters. It also saw the first ever use of aerial drones in combat

The Pirate Bay planned to fly low orbit server drones to escape legal jurisdiction

SpaceX has two autonomous drone ships that serve as landing platforms for the Falcon 9 rocket and Elon Musk personally named them “just read the instructions” and “of course I still love you” as a nod to one of his favorite sci-fi authors.

Retired fighter aircraft are converted to unmanned flying drones for target practice.

DARPA created a hummingbird drone that looks and flies like the real thing and weighs less than an AA battery and carries a camera.

There’s a man who turned his dead cat into a drone; then did the same to an ostrich, a shark, a rat, and more.

Domino’s conducted a test using a drone which they called the ‘DomiCopter’ to deliver pizza. The Domicopter flew for 10 minutes and successfully delivered its precious cargo

. The authorities from other countries tend to use drones to their benefit, for example in Tokyo the police have developed a special drone unit, where drones with nets are being used to catch other flying tech.

Drones can be used to produce beautiful ariel photos or footage.

A drones flight is usually controlled in two ways; either autonomously by computers in the vehicle (auto pilot) or under the remote control of a pilot on the ground.

The estimated number of commercial drones that were purchased for Christmas in 2015 sits at 400,000