Browse Sites By Day: 13.07.2021 RSS2021-07-13T22:11:58+0000The FAA Drone Advisory Committee is recommending the use of Gender Neutral language. For example, to change unmanned to uncrewed. Drone news web site DroneDJ has decided to jump the gun, and decided to use gender neutral terms from this point on. The question is, what problem are we trying to solve. The term Unmanned in the dictionary lists an adjective: without the physical presence of people in control. For example, an unmanned spacecraft. The meaning of the word is gender neutral already. Should we also change our species so that the word human is erased? Like the word manned, human is also has a gender neutral meaning. Is this going too far for the sake of political correctness?

]]>2021-07-13T22:11:58+0000Chinese company EHang has announced another that it has passed a technical evaluation of its EH216F AAV (Autonomous Aerial Vehicle), a drone built for firefighting. The idea of using drones for firefighting has a key benefit: Drones can reach heights that ladders and hoses cannot. A number of companies have been testing out smaller prototypes, but they have limited payload capacity. While a single EHang EH216F won’t extinguish a towering inferno, it clearly has greater capabilities than the other drones in this space.

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