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Posted by Gary Mortimer on January 14, 2011 at 5:00am

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sUAS News started as a way to get what I was doing and a couple of friends out into the world. I am sick of the endless military press releases that I keep posting. Sort of interesting but to a point.

 

Does the very lack of stories of civil sUAS doing useful things mean there are very few actually doing that?

If you are making waves doing something then drop me a line gary@suasnews.com

At very least your story will appear in the news feed on the right of this very site

Lets hear whats actually happening, GCS, airframes or photo jobs, I don't mind what it is.

 

Clearly those of you in the USA are on a sticky wicket advertising your commercial activites, not that any of you would be doing anything like that anyway ;-)

 

G

 

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    Gary Mortimer January 15, 2011 at 9:40am
    Cool Lew, thanks I look forward to it.
  • Lew Payne January 15, 2011 at 8:49am
    I know what you mean, Gary... I get several UAV-related summary news pieces each day, all commercial (military). Your efforts are quite noble... and I'm glad you've undertaken it! I hope to feed you some news when I get the code for v1.0 of my design finished (which is now being slowed down by my v2.0 hardware design).
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    Gary Mortimer January 15, 2011 at 1:00am

    Your right Lew, I forgot to add some words!! Which I have now.

     

    sUAS News was just a blog that I padded out with press releases and it has morphed into what it is now. It was keeping all the new stuff I found in one place.

     

    But I would like it to promote all the exciting stuff thats not coming out of big defense contractors.

     

    I think as time passes there will be more and more from civilian builders and operators. I keep forgetting this is still a relatively unknown sphere. I think about it all the time but its not mainstream!

     

  • Lew Payne January 14, 2011 at 9:19pm
    "sUAS News started as a way to get what I was doing and a couple of friends."

    What does this mean, exactly? I've read it several times, and it simply doesn't make sense.
  • Peterstagg January 14, 2011 at 3:06pm
    Hi having just joined the group (so new I haven't even put up a photo) I am astounded by the content that's here. There is so much that there should be plenty of activities that would do you for over a year. I look forward to delving more into both this siteand the magazine site. There is so much to learn here. Once I get my unit to post construction stage I will send you information on the project. It will more than just aerial photography (if it gets off the ground)
  • Chris McNair January 14, 2011 at 3:01pm
    Gary they have a good point. Seems nobody is willing to put their rear out on the line except that Police officer over on RCG with the balloon.......
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    Gary Mortimer January 14, 2011 at 12:55pm
    Well they are all looking here as well Jonathan, well lots of them anyway. The offers there, if anyone has some cool projects they would like promoting then email away! Obviously I will keep reporting the other stuff would just be happier promoting what people here are doing.
  • Jonathan Lussier January 14, 2011 at 9:33am
    It might be easier to find University researchers using UAS' for Masters or PhD work
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    Gary Mortimer January 14, 2011 at 9:28am
    Well thats very true, but it will change fast I hope for you there. The UK has more than 70 companies operating legally now, I think close on 40 in Australia many more in other forward thinking countries ;-) Most of those are just aerial photography gigs. But there must be some interesting stuff in there, along with airframes and bits and pieces.
  • Duane Brocious January 14, 2011 at 7:36am

    Hopefully the lack of USA civil sUAS stories is because there are so few of them that are legally used. All the FAA has issued so far seems to be a handful of Experimental Certificates of Waiver. I hope the "outlaws" are laying low until the FAA's new regs are done.

    Recreational sUAS are pretty much the only legal thing going right now in the USA.

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