• Title Image

    The Aviation Advocacy Blog

    A cornucopia of news, opinion, views, facts and quirky bits that need to be talked about. Join our community and join in the conversation on all matters aviation. The blog includes our weekly round-up of the bits of European aviation you may otherwise have missed – That Was The Week That Was

Search

Categories

Month of Issue

Drones: Artificial Life Savers

Written by Aviation Advocacy on . Posted in Disaster relief, Drones and UAVs, Humanitarian, Safety

The media, egged on by pilots and the rest of the manned aviation community, has done a good job of broadcasting potential risks posed by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Whether it is contraband delivered to prisoners, possible collisions with aircraft or peeping toms peering through windows, drones get a bad wrap. In fact, UAVs provide far greater reward than cost, social or otherwise. Despite vast commercial benefits (PwC estimates that the UAV market will be worth USD 127 billion by 2020), the greatest rebuttal to fear-mongers may be the advantages of drones to humanitarian aid. What better response to those who claim drones put people in danger than evidence of drones saving lives?

Previous Posts

Subscribe to receive notifications of new posts

[contact-form-7 404 "Not Found"]

Categories

Archive

Links

Feed

RSS