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  2. Unmanned aerial vehicle - Wikipedia

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    Small drones avoid the need for precise coordination between pilot and cameraman, with the same person taking on both roles. Big drones with professional cine cameras usually have a drone pilot and a camera operator who controls camera angle and lens. For example, the AERIGON cinema drone, used in film production, is operated by two people.

  3. Autonomous aircraft - Wikipedia

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    An autonomous aircraft is an aircraft which flies under the control of on-board autonomous robotic systems and needs no intervention from a human pilot or remote control.Most contemporary autonomous aircraft are unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) with pre-programmed algorithms to perform designated tasks, but advancements in artificial intelligence technologies (e.g. machine learning) mean that ...

  4. Unmanned combat aerial vehicle - Wikipedia

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    A British MQ-9A Reaper operating over Afghanistan in 2009. An unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone, fighter drone or battlefield UAV, is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is used for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance and carries aircraft ordnance such as missiles, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), and/or bombs in hardpoints ...

  5. Drone - Wikipedia

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    Drone, a member of the Drones Club in P. G. Wodehouse's novels; Drones, intelligent machines in the utopian society The Culture of Iain M. Banks; Drone, a humanoid assimilated by the Borg in Star Trek; Drones, service robots in Silent Running (1972) Drones or yanme'e, fictional species in the Covenant in Halo

  6. History of unmanned aerial vehicles - Wikipedia

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    During test Baker, two drones were flown directly above the explosion; when the shock wave reached them, both gained height, and the lowest was damaged. The U.S. Navy conducted similar tests with Grumman F6F Hellcat drones. The B-17 drones were employed in a similar manner in Operation Sandstone in 1947, and in Operation Greenhouse in 1951.

  7. eVTOL - Wikipedia

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    Their drones are able to fly up to 100 km and carry up to 1.5 kg. [51] Amazon Prime Air and UPS are two others companies using drone delivery. [52] A German aerospace company called Wingcopter in collaboration with UNICEF has also delivered vaccines in Vanuatu in 2018. [53] In 2020 wingcopter eVTOL drone was used to deliver COVID-19 test kits ...

  8. First-person view (radio control) - Wikipedia

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    Drone racer wearing FPV goggles and holding a radio controller. First-person view (FPV), also known as remote-person view (RPV), or video piloting, is a method used to control a radio-controlled vehicle from the driver or pilot's viewpoint.

  9. Aerial survey - Wikipedia

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    the clockwise horizontal angle measured about the ground nadir point from the ground survey North meridian in the plane of photograph. orthomosaic A high-resolution map created by orthophotos, usually via drones is termed as an orthomosaic. Ortho meaning a nadir image and mosaic meaning a collection of images. Temporal Resolution Time between ...