Crop scouting aircraft downloads pictures instantly to help farmers assess trouble spots
GWYNNE, Alta. — The joke in Bret Chilcott’s family was that the Kansas farm boy wasted all the money he earned working on his father’s farm on flying lessons and model aircraft. Chilcott has now combined his knowledge of farming, flying and model aircraft to design and build a plane to map agricultural land. “This […] Read moreTag Archives drones
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Drone chopper | Battery-powered machine scouts fields slowly, precisely and costs half as much
If the $75,000 US price tag on a gas-powered field-scouting AutoCopter G15 is too expensive, the company has just released a battery-powered version called SuperScout for about half the price. The original AutoCopter G15, which was introduced three years ago, has a six-foot rotor span and is powered by a small two-cycle en-gine. It has […] Read more
