AirVūz News: World of Drones 04/06/20

Published 04/06/2020 07:43

Welcome to the World of Drones. I’m Angie Avestruz with AirVuz News here to get you caught up on this week’s drone headlines. As Covid-19 continues to keep people at home, panic buying things like toilet paper also continues but drone pilots have gotten creative on ways to help each other out. Videos all over social media are being shared of people delivering TP via drone. Like this Florida man who flew 5 rolls over a lagoon to his neighbor. This person got a special delivery when his friend flew over a roll in San Francisco.  And finally professional hockey player Jeff Carter got hooked up with some TP from his fellow LA Kings teammate Alex Iafallo.

Irish drone food delivery startup Manna Aero is working on the world’s first drone delivery service catered to elderly and vulnerable people in self-isolation due to the coronavirus. This week trials will begin in the Irish town of Moneygall where Manna Aero aims to make 100 trips a day delivering medicine and groceries. This technology was originally meant to be used for a takeout delivery service, but the pandemic shifted their mission.

Police in Anchorage, Alaska used a drone to find a hiker who had been missing since March 28. Dispatchers received a call from a woman who went off-trail in a wooded area and was no longer able to see her footprints in windy conditions. Some police officers headed into the woods on foot to search for the woman, while another officer sent up a drone. Within 15 minutes the drone pilot found the woman using an infrared camera and told the woman help was on the way. Police say, “She was really happy to hear the mysterious voice in the sky.”

 

Now it’s time to announce the Top 5 drone  videos uploaded to AirVuz.com last week: “Behind the clouds - Madeira” by videobros, “OUR EARTH - Cinematic MAVIC 2 PRO” by Raphael Rablat, “AIRERIA” by postandfly, “WILDERNESS” by Naudé Heunis and “Dronelapse of an Active Volcano in Mexico” by enriquebarquet. And the Drone Video of the Week and the winner of $250 is videobros with “Behind the clouds - Madeira.” AirVuz Top Contributor Jaxon Roberts will be selecting one of the Drone Video of the Week winners from April to be our Drone Video of the Month and that person will win $500! We’re also running another FPV Video of the Month contest in April and Martin Novak aka Flylifeco will be selecting that $500 winner from all of the FPV Pilots to Watch. Hope you are all staying safe.

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