Episode 6: Interview with Air Robot

This week we interview the drone film makers behind the viral internet sensation that is Drone Boning!

This week, Michael interviews Randy Scott Slavin. A director and founder of the New York City Drone Film Festival. This film festival is entirely dedicated to honoring films that were created using drones. The sold out film festival will be held March 7th at The Directors Guild of America Theater in NYC. For more details check out their website http://www.nycdronefilmfestival.com

This week, UAS Today interviews the international company air robot. A US subsidiary of a Germany company that has been operating unmanned aerial systems in commercial and civil applications globally. Their work with bridge inspections, wind turbines, and with emergency crews has proven that there is a future, for unmanned aerial systems and many applications. Once the FAA integrates unmanned aerial systems into our national airspace, air robot is poised to be a leader in the industry.

This week we interviewed Dennis Zaklan, the Deputy Director of the New Mexico State University Unmanned Aerial System Flight Test Center established in 2004. UAS Today: Assessing the benefits and weighing the risks of tomorrow's Unmanned Aerial Systems technology today. We create public awareness though discussing the future of unmanned aircraft in public airspace. Visit our webpage: UAS-today.com

In this episode we discuss current events and interview Warren Causey of the Sirens Project who successfully launched his kickstarter project to send unmanned aerial systems into tornados. More about our discussion of current events: http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/judge-strikes-down-faas-ban-commercial-drones http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoglia/2014/11/18/ntsb-overturns-pirker-finds-for-faa-that-drones-are-aircraft-subject-to-its-rules/ More about Warren Causey and his team: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/student-storm-chasers-develop-drones-to-probe-killer-tornadoes/ UAS Today: Assessing the benefits and weighing the risks of tomorrow's Unmanned Aerial Systems technology today. We create public awareness though discussing the future of unmanned aircraft in public airspace. Visit our webpage: UAS-today.com

Taylor takes our podcast into the streets of Washington, DC to survey the status of the current public opinion on the use of unmanned aerial systems in the national airspace system. UAS Today: Assessing the benefits and weighing the risks of tomorrow's Unmanned Aerial Systems technology today. We create public awareness though discussing the future of unmanned aircraft in public airspace. Visit our webpage: UAS-today.com

This week UAS Today interviewed Vanilla Aircraft, an Unmanned Aerial Systems company that is currently entering the test phases with their UAS that is capable of staying in the air for 10 days at a time.   UAS Today: Assessing the benefits and weighing the risks of tomorrow's Unmanned Aerial Systems technology today. Visit our webpage

This week we discuss Unmanned Aerial systems innovations and start up companies. This week's podcast also includes our interview of Christina Engh, Co-owner of UAS Solutions Group, a company dedicated to helping small businesses get started in the UAS field. UAS Today: Assessing the benefits and weighing the risks of tomorrow's UAS technology today.   Retraction Note: UAS Today Strives to maintain clarity and accurate information on our podcast and our webpage. When mistakes information has been misrepresented or misprinted the staff at UAS Today makes every effort to correct those mistakes as quickly as possible. If you notice a mistake before we do, please email us at uastoday@uas-today.com . During our first podcast the name, Raphael Pirker was mispronounced. The staff at UAS Today would like to send our apologies to Mr. Pirker.