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Commercial Drone Sky Highway

2025-07-22T17:46:46+00:00October 18, 2020|Categories: All, Archive, Featured, Uncategorized|

UK Commercial Drone Sky Highway News Story Picture credit - Solent Transport The south of England will soon be home to the UK’s first commercial drone highway in the sky. Drones will be able to operate beyond the pilot’s line of sight with onboard technology taking the responsibility of preventing collisions. Altitude Angels who are developing the initiative, say that they will hire out the zone to operators. The actual airspace  comprises an 8km [...]

Amazon’s Newest Home Drone

2025-07-22T17:46:46+00:00October 16, 2020|Categories: All, Archive, Featured, Uncategorized|

Amazon’s Announce Newest Home Drone Amazon’s latest big event has caused quite the storm. They have just announced the release of the Ring Always Home Cam – an autonomous indoor drone camera designed to be an addition to their Ring Home Security Suite. Although it is a world away from the drones we deploy in our business, it does mark a huge potential use of UAVs into our everyday lives. It is designed to [...]

CAA Approved Reduced Distances (OSC) for Drone Operations

2025-07-22T17:47:33+00:00October 7, 2020|Categories: All, Featured|

Drone Media Imaging aerial services now operating even closer! Drones are amazing tools to complete many tasks from creative and commercial photography through building inspections and thermal surveys. However, the legal restrictions on how far pilots can fly from a subject (whether it be person, vessel, property, or vehicle) can mean that it is not always a practical solution for every situation. Pilots with standard permissions (PFCO) are permitted to take off and [...]

Thermal Imaging Inspection of Electrical Plant Generator

2025-07-22T17:41:02+00:00September 4, 2020|Categories: All, Featured|

Electrical Plant Generator Infrared Camera Inspection Preventative Non-Destructive Thermal Inspection Mission-critical electrical generators are required to stay in service 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. So ensuring that issues are determined and discovered early is key. Thermal Imaging facilitates a quick, simple, and cost-effective route to discovering these issues before failures develop and in a safe non-destructive way. Critical industrial equipment such as electrical [...]

Commercial PV Solar Farm Inspections by Drone

2025-07-22T17:41:03+00:00August 24, 2020|Categories: All, Featured|

Drone Thermal Inspection of Solar Farms Climate change and the need for renewable energy is driving an unprecedented investment into commercial photovoltaic solar farms. However there any many issues that can result in failures of the panels if not properly and routinely inspected. Thermal Imaging has long been the technology of choice for fault diagnosis and now using the latest drone thermal imaging cameras in the hands of qualified and experienced aerial UAV operators such as Drone [...]

Drone Filming at Barfoots Farms

2025-07-22T17:47:32+00:00August 20, 2020|Categories: All, Featured|

Sometimes there can be amazing stories right under your nose and occasionally our work with our drone cameras can bring them to light.  When we were asked to film at Barfoots Farms for the BBC One Show, I'm ashamed to say we had not ever come across them before.  So of course we turned to our friend the internet to let us find out more about the story. What we discovered was that there is a chap called Peter [...]

£1 Billion Savings Possible Through Urban UAV Deployment

2025-07-22T17:46:45+00:00August 10, 2020|Categories: All, Archive, Featured, Uncategorized|

NESTA, the UK based innovation foundation, works in areas where there are big challenges and they look to bring new ideas to life in a way that meets these challenges. One of the sectors that they have turned their collective mind to is that of drones and how they can offer benefit to the UK and in their recent report 'Flying High: Seizing the Opportunity', they theorise that UAVs have the potential to save the public sector £1 billion.  [...]

The Energy Efficiency of your Home

2025-07-22T17:41:05+00:00August 5, 2020|Categories: All, Featured|

A recent BBC news report states that more than two-thirds of UK homes are failing to meet energy efficiency targets which means that more than 12 million homes fall below the C grade on Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs). Read the BBC Energy Efficiency Article Thermal imaging of your home is a fast and effective way to check your energy efficiency as areas of poor insulation, thermal bridging, and heat loss are easily [...]

Westmead House in Farnborough

2025-07-22T17:41:06+00:00August 4, 2020|Categories: All, Featured|

Short Aerial Photography and Video of New Roof Refurbishment Newly refurbished flat roofing at Westmead House in Farnborough We were commissioned to provide a short simple video and a collection of photos of a new roof project our client had completed recently in Farnborough. The main challenge was that the building was less than a 1km from Farnborough airport, which would require special permissions from the CAA and the airport to conduct a [...]

Drones and Flood Damage

2025-07-22T17:46:44+00:00August 1, 2020|Categories: All, Archive, Featured, Uncategorized|

The UK has been battered in recent months by a series of storms that have left large swathes of the country suffering or at risk from flood damage. A recent BBC report showed the damage to properties in East Yorkshire forms a drone's perspective highlighting the scale of the issue. This type of aerial footage certainly makes for compelling viewing but drones can also have more practical applications when [...]

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