Here's the video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYpJKFwWv5sRead all about it: http://bit.ly/YkllonSee More

Yesterday Senator Prozanski released his amended language to SB 71. Here is a link to a copy of the new language, as well as our analysis:http://bit.ly/15z3bR5Also, here is a "video petition" of folks from Oregon opposing SB 71:See More

At long last, the stars aligned and we were able to get back out with a group of local firefighters, putting the wet stuff on the hot stuff. This time, it was Portland Fire and Rescue, conducting a controlled burn and wildland firefighting exercise on a two-acre parcel in the Baltimore Woods Natural Area.Their goal for the day was to clear invasive species off of this property. A plant biologist who turned out to supervise the project told me that basically everything you can see in the video…See More

This is a video that we know a lot people have been waiting for, so I'm going to forgo my usual florid preamble and give you the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKjY1EvP80As regular viewers will recall, Robert over at UAVProducts.com, formerly DJI USA <ding!>, provided us with an S800 hexacopter as well as a WooKong-M flight control system so that we could make one of our “unboxing, installation and testing” videos about these…See More

To be honest, I'm still not completely sure how all of this happened... A couple of months ago, someone over at FLIR – the world leader in thermal imaging – approached us to see if we would like to try flying some of their hardware.Our initial response was stunned silence, brought on by shock. Fortunately, that initial contact came as an online message, so I don't think they noticed. After we managed to get our heads together enough to respond, we sent back a message that said basically, “Uh...…See More