Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome, everybody, to weekly Wings, a dronelife.com podcast. Paul Rossi here with Samuel Stansberry and Terry Neff. We've got an informational packed episode for everybody this week. Terry, how are you doing? How things been? How's life been treating you?
[00:00:21] Speaker B: Doing pretty good. Nothing too much to complain about. Hope everybody's safe up in western North Carolina.
[00:00:27] Speaker A: Yeah, in all parts, I'd say all parts of the southeast. Us being here in North Carolina, it's easy to see there's some very significant flooding, very non normal flooding. Samuel, how are you doing?
[00:00:40] Speaker C: I've been a little under the weather. Hasn't been. Covid tested negative for that, but on the, on the tail end of that. So that's some good news as opposed to everything else that's going on. But, yeah, on the.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: Yeah, as you say, I felt like shit for, uh, well, maybe like a week, but, uh, now I said that I was like, oh, well, hope I didn't give it to Samuel, whatever I had, because we, we did happen to see each other. So. No, I think there's a. I think there's a bug going around.
I just had a quick question. Books, if, for the. For, you know, we've got folks listening in and we talk a lot about the, you know, current events, drones, things like that. But one question that just came to my head. I wanted to know, what's one book you would recommend to listeners, Samuel? Folks that are tuning in as, like.
[00:01:33] Speaker C: A drone pilot or like, as a.
[00:01:35] Speaker A: Just a positive life book? It could be not drones. I'm sure there's not like, a long list of drone books that you have on the bookshelf. Just life book, leadership, entertainment. Same question to you, Terry.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: Let's see me go first if he has one.
[00:01:53] Speaker C: Yeah, you caught me a little off guard with that question. One of my favorite books is Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. I wouldn't call it an inspirational leadership book, but it's definitely an entertainment book.
It was adapted into a movie, but that's one of my favorite books. Personally got me a little off guard with that, but yeah.
[00:02:15] Speaker A: Terry, what about you?
[00:02:17] Speaker B: Well, I can't say I've readdeveloped a ton of self help books, but I'm currently reading twelve rules for life by Jordan Peterson. I'm only a few chapters in. I think I'm on rule three or four, so it's been pretty good so far. I like the way he explains stuff. It's helped so far.
[00:02:35] Speaker C: I misunderstood the assignment.
[00:02:37] Speaker A: No, no. It could have been any book, entertainment, anything. Just anything. One of our listeners might enjoy. And then I would just say the book grit, but grit by Angela Duckworth. So I think Terry might have.
[00:02:50] Speaker B: I didn't read it. I bought it because of you, but then I never read it.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: Angela Duckworth, grit. Yeah, sorry. I got a great episode. We'll kind of dive into things. We'll talk about a recent SpaceX. We're not going to talk about the Patriots because they're just. Let's not talk about the patriots. SpaceX dragon has.
Just as you know, we're recording this podcast is docking with the ISS. We'll dive into that sky elements light show. They just this weekend set a world record. So this is really exciting to dive into that. We'll let Samuel possibly unpack things, seeing as how we've assigned him the resident expert. We'll be looking at some counter UA's technology as well as also some counter UA's, excuse me, technologies and new drone technology we're seeing in the new contemporary operating environment in this spot like poop copter. We talked about the dung beetle, and I never again thought we would be talking about poop on the podcast. So it's just too interesting not to discuss it. We'll be looking at a saildrone that went into the hurricane, just recently discussed drone use. In the success side, we have aslon robotics again unveiling some new technology. A missing teenager found in the regulatory corner. DFR program. Again, the common theme, BV loss patent being issued for counter UA's. And we'll end things up in Boston. Speaking about a Boston man who. All right, and so thank you, everybody, for tuning in this week. Just kidding.
Let's see. Private system. Private. Here we go. Allow for one month. System update. Fantastic.
So just in the last few hours here, the dragon capsule has docked with the ISS.
And why is this? I guess significant more than most other times is. Are you guys familiar with the two astronauts stuck at the ISS?
[00:05:12] Speaker C: Been a few months now. Yeah, been loosely following that story.
[00:05:20] Speaker A: I think at least a month. I'm not entirely adapted.
[00:05:26] Speaker C: Probably feels like a few if you're up there.
[00:05:32] Speaker A: Yeah, just rolling through here.
But. So the significance. Just two astronauts were on board this recent SpaceX Dragon capsule. And so the two test pilots that butch Wilmore and SUNY Williams. June 5. So let's see. June 5. So June, July. Yeah. Way more than two months, right?
Yeah, on June 5. So just do the math.
Six, nine, three months.
Three and a. Almost four months they've been there. They're not coming back until February. So the Boeing Starliner. Right. The Boeing that. Just think about it like the. The. The spaceship that they took to get there.
NASA wasn't confident that they could ride back on it safely, so they flew the Starliner back with no one on it and it came back successfully.
They could have. So what they've determined afterwards was like, oh, we could have.
We. We could have had somebody on it.
And now the dragon capsule that has docked just recently with the International Space station, instead of carrying four astronauts, it only carried two.
And someone had to call up two of those astronauts and say, well, look, and we mentioned this before, I think, since you did all your training, but guess what? You're not going to get to fly because we have to leave those seats open for Butch and Sonny to fly back. So it's been the first time since 2020 that when it was you put two pilots on for a test flight, but once this thing's operational, you're filling all four seats. So kind of a bummer for those astronauts that didn't get to go. But if you're butch and sunny and you see that, you know, dragon capsule coming up, you're like, oh, yeah, there's our ride.
But we're not going to. February.
[00:07:48] Speaker C: A new level of homesick.
[00:07:50] Speaker A: Yeah, but you're not going back. Still five more months. So it's pretty wild to spend a full nine months. That's like a full, full pregnancy there on the ISS before you come home. And the best part, right? They didn't have any bags packed. Like they thought they were just gonna go up there and then turn around and come back. Backpack pack for nine months and all the space ice cream you can hear.
[00:08:19] Speaker C: Heart desires, every astronauts dream, right? Maybe not.
[00:08:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. That's. That could be like the nightmare the astronauts nightmare is being.
[00:08:33] Speaker C: You know, it starts off okay.
[00:08:37] Speaker A: It's like Covid, you know, you get stuck somewhere. They couldn't leave.
Have you guys ever gone somewhere and ended up being stuck there longer than you anticipated? I see Terry nod in the head.
[00:08:50] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe not. You can't immediately leave. Yeah, yeah. Not nine months.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: Definitely up north. I think there might have been a time or two where a trip was extended due to some severe weather.
[00:09:05] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Nice snowstorms near New York.
[00:09:10] Speaker A: Either that or you're trying to run out sooner. Trying to get. Trying to get to Syracuse airport sooner than later.
[00:09:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: Let's see some other exciting news. But here on earth that we're seeing that took place this weekend. And again, things like this, you don't even know they're going to happen until they've already happened. So what in Sky Omen's drones, we've talked about them in the past. Texas space company, they're the ones on, they're capturing the hearts of so many people right now on America's got talented, they got another golden buzzer.
One of the founders of sky elements.
They did the most recent show as a tribute to his daughter who passed away. So being able to use drones to tell a very, not just a story, but a very emotional story, they've made significant connection or, you know, as ambassadors for drones on America's Got Talent. And then here they are setting Guinness spoke world record. So what, what's happening here, Samuel?
[00:10:29] Speaker C: That's kind of funny. Over the past weekend, the, the, I don't want to say Texas because they're, the drone show was in Texas, but I don't think the actual company itself is in Texas. But see, my tabs are all spread out here a little bit.
There we go.
[00:11:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:06] Speaker C: Sky Elements was doing a show in Texas. They were out to beat the previous record for the most drones in a drone show, it seems. Which previous record held by Pablo Air 10,000 or, excuse me, 1068 drones up in the air at one given time. And it's funny, the company is named Pablo Air Company, but it's a south korean company.
And we went and had sky elements go out there over the weekend and beat that record. And they put, let's see, I believe it was 1164 drones up in the air for their drone light shows.
[00:11:48] Speaker A: Technic drones.
[00:11:50] Speaker C: Yeah. So they put that cherry on top.
[00:11:55] Speaker A: And so I think the Guinness record for like, most drones in the light show is like 5000. Right. But the most drones with pyrotechnics is the Guinness record that they just within the last, what, 24 hours this flight occurred. So we're seeing here on the screen in the share that right there is that pyrotechnic where the drone lights are off, but you're seeing, God, that pyrotechnic.
Terry, how many drone, when are you going to be doing drone light shows?
[00:12:35] Speaker B: Let's see. You want to get a small loan of a million dollars. I think I could probably start that company. So it definitely costs money to get into this, but it is insanely cool if you can.
[00:12:46] Speaker C: Notably this one. This one was free as well.
I wanted to throw that out there.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Oh, it's not $40 to go to.
[00:12:55] Speaker C: This one was accessible for the public. But I think it's having that Guinness world record kind of gives you a little cred to do that. That's what I'm thinking anyways.
[00:13:04] Speaker A: Yeah. This isn't about the revenue, this is about the flex. Right. This is about showing off.
[00:13:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:11] Speaker C: Well, especially for sky elements too, is because we've seen them in the past.
[00:13:14] Speaker A: Now.
[00:13:14] Speaker C: They've popped up a number of times out of my mouth anyway, specifically.
[00:13:20] Speaker A: And I think this is one of those. Every time you have a new development in the technology or the capabilities, sometimes you have to go out there and show it off and showcase it in order to get people to buy in. So they are well known for just their standard light shows. And how do you now set the bar a little bit higher for these pyrotechnic shows? And it's not a matter of like, we don't want to do a lot of these shows. You just want to be able to, you know, have that, that elite customer. And you kind of mentioned it, this is a huge, like, Guinness book World Record. It's going to get, you know, everyone's going to talk about it. It's like free, not free advertising because it's the cost of whatever your time is and the pyrotechnic charge is. But compared to trying to go buy an ad or a commercial or pay for Facebook ad placement or Instagram ad placements, this is kind of do it with a free drone light show for the community.
[00:14:19] Speaker B: It's self spreading publicity.
[00:14:21] Speaker C: It's a hard message to ignore when it's written out in the sky like that, you know?
[00:14:29] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. The. I don't know, the pyrotechnics and it's just, it's so much. It's so much. It's so many. Like, it's a lot to think of, but the benefits are huge because not anyone can do it. So anyone can go buy a drone and do the photography and, you know, but to have these advanced pyrotechnic drone light shows, that's pretty wild.
And now kind of pivoting a little bit to technology. Looking at some, you know, tech corner here, Honeywell is going to be demoing their new kinetic soft kill counter UA's for the air force. So a multi layered defense capabilities that is, you know, setting this company apart. So with everything, again, that's happening in today's the, in Ukraine, you know, what we're seeing around the israeli conflict, the counter UA's system is, you know, becoming as important.
So what.
What are you guys seeing here in this? Was there anything that kind of stuck out that, that you saw that maybe isn't what we're already seeing in a lot of these detection equipment, or what we've seen recently, where it's kind of firing, taking the system out.
[00:16:22] Speaker B: I'm a little confused. What is it using to, like, dismantle the drone and neutralize the threat? I don't.
This article.
[00:16:34] Speaker A: Yeah, that's why I was kind of asking from, you know, when it talks about soft kill kinetic, I figured Terry would have had some sweet insider pop up here.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: I wish I knew. I don't.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, Honeywell isn't disclosing a whole lot based on what it's saying.
Blue halo pierce aerospace.
I mean, layering technology, it's kind of like, what is the actual kinetic? You know, what is the probably silent sentinel, if I had to guess.
[00:17:25] Speaker B: Unless it's talking like a rail gun, which would be pretty sick.
[00:17:34] Speaker A: No cameras, package of cameras, detection equipment.
As far as what they're using, it's not entirely clear.
[00:17:51] Speaker C: Definitely has its own stylistic look to it with. Looks like a missile with what, four motors, I would say.
[00:18:01] Speaker B: Oh, okay. So when it says kinetic energy, it's similar to the. The drone we'll be talking about next, that sky critical, or AP's released for their sky critical, like software.
But I can only imagine what Honeywell is going to come up with, especially if they're not, like, tallying us much at all.
[00:18:30] Speaker A: Well, the other one that we just talked about last week, the. What was it the.
Was it the bol something or. It was just the 240. Remember, they just had the automated 240 machine gun, and the tracking system was layered with the robotic mechanisms to control and fire at a rapid rate.
So it will be interesting to see once any information comes out, just continuing that theme of where the military is headed and how things are adapting. And so what are we looking at here, Terry?
[00:19:18] Speaker B: Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. This is APS's sky critical system.
This is a part of the system, more or less. It's a new kinetic energy, like counter UA's system that kind of slots into their already.
Already made.
What am I looking for? What word is that?
[00:19:45] Speaker A: Like a system. So they're detecting it, and kinetic being like, actual, like an explosive, like you're using a physical projectile, a bullet. It's, you know, kinetic. So that drone, as you can see, is basically a. A remotely.
Not remotely piloted, but an autonomous vehicle.
And so I think what you're saying is, like, into the system. They already have a detection system. They have, like, a non kinetic means of telling our drone to go somewhere else. And now they're finally adding that, like, you know, ultimate elimination piece.
[00:20:24] Speaker B: Well, they do have. They also. I read in that article that they also have, like, a small cannon that shoots at it, too. So they have multiple redundancies that they're adding into, like, the mesh layer.
I think I would trust this company protecting my gas manufacturing plant.
If it doesn't get shot at, it will get another drone slammed into it and it will be eliminated.
[00:20:55] Speaker A: Sky control, that was like their. I.
[00:20:59] Speaker B: Do you remember the claymores that we were talking about? That's what you used claymore as the term to describe the size. They have their own claymores.
If you click on either the sky or the field, you'll see them.
[00:21:20] Speaker A: And so, yeah, see, there's their sky control. Right. So just kind of what we're. Your detection, those claymore looking, you have 360 degree radar detection, and then you have these visual cameras, which would probably be, like, thermal, I think that's the radar jammer.
[00:21:43] Speaker B: Infrared pole right there.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: And then this right here. Right, this tube. And then this is an antenna. And this is an antenna. And then this is a, you know, receiver or transmitter. And so, absolutely, these are your actual devices that are going to, you know, interfere with the c two, with the command and control of the drone. But if you just put a, you know, a weapon on here, and what they're adding is a projectile, so it doesn't have to be right here. The drone, that projectile drone can be anywhere within the area. You're just using the detection system to find it. And then you're right, sending, like, hey, we've detected a drone.
Deploy our drone to go fly into and crash into it.
[00:22:41] Speaker B: And they have a pretty good video under the case studies page at the top. It's the first video that you. You can see there. It kind of explains our system a little more in depth.
[00:22:57] Speaker D: Critical infrastructure like oil and gas installations and chemical industrial plants need the best available means of security.
[00:23:05] Speaker A: We don't have this kind of video on the Honeywell system.
[00:23:11] Speaker B: They don't say much about their system. They even say on their website that.
[00:23:13] Speaker D: They won't tell you much about it, which guarantees.
[00:23:18] Speaker A: But that's big, man. Like that.
It's a local iron dome, the smallest.
[00:23:27] Speaker D: And fastest ones, and immediately neutralizes them with a highly effective jammer at a safe distance from the secured object in just a few seconds. Sky control system gives total and permanent protection of the airspace.
Our system precisely detects, tracks, and classifies them regardless of the time of day, weather, or any external conditions.
Our pioneering sky control anti drone system is constantly protecting the airspace of refinery.
[00:23:59] Speaker A: They're like just, just set it right outside your secured fenced in area and it looks portable. Yeah, well it does, but not like, I mean, you know, like military jump out.
Yeah.
[00:24:16] Speaker C: How convenient is it for the normal person?
[00:24:20] Speaker A: I mean like they're doing it in the video so. But you see they have a van. It's like, yeah, if you can ride up to the, you know, deployment site in your van.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: And I feel like it's more portable than, let's say like I don't know the name of them but like I don't know the anti air systems we've had in the past that has to be pulled by a diesel truck with a trailer.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Like the one with the 240 attached to it.
Like how many holes, there's so many holes in this bracket here.
[00:24:54] Speaker B: It looks like you could for adjustments.
[00:24:57] Speaker A: So many, so many options. And then you can see even here on the. Looks like there's the same thing anyway.
Anywho, counter UA's right. Certainly, certainly a very, very important topic is the drones themselves become more capable of doing various, various things, especially various bad things. It becomes all the more important to be able to detect and manage. Excuse me. And one thing not bad that drones could be doing soon. Picking up doo doo.
Picking up some doo doo.
And you know this is crazy, right? That this, I'm pretty sure this just came up. Like when you go to Google and news and type the word drone in like here it is just garbage, you know, Ukraine, Ukraine, Russia, Ukraine, this. And then all of a sudden it was like dog poop drawn. I was like, what is this poop again?
But it was really neat. We're not going to watch this whole video. It's like a twelve, 1110 minutes video. I ended up watching it with Lauren. I was like, you got to look at this. This is just so ridiculous. Dog poop drone cleans up the yard so you don't have to. And I'm like, this is crazy. And it's like sometimes you instantly know who's behind a project from the subject matter alone. So when we saw this was aerial dog poop removal system show up in the tips line, we knew it had to be the work of Caleb also. I'm like, how the hell did they, like, they're writing this article too. As if like you should know who this guy is. We immediately do. It was dog poop related. And I'm like, but then if you go on to.
Yeah, it was very strange getting into this. Yeah, so then it was like, if you're unfamiliar with this guy, you know, well, Caleb has done this and this. And what he did is he. He created a machine learning system. So when his dog would go out and go the bathroom, his security camera would alert him that the dog did a poop. And then it would, like. It would, like, track the location.
And so there's this crazy stuff, like, it's snowing, and the dog poops, and it gets covered, but he still has this, like, map. And, you know, and then he created a laser arm, and when he would go to pick the dog poop up, the laser arm would point to where all the poops were, and once he picked one up, it would automatically poop. Point to the next poop. Really, just the fact that it's a revolver. You got to kind of get past that part. But it's, like, the technology and just this, like. So now he comes out with the final autonomous pieces. Detect the dog has pooped, track the location of the poop, and now send a drone to go and collect the poop up for you.
What the hell do you guys think about this?
[00:28:09] Speaker B: It's an interesting concept. I think he just kind of made this, ironically to see if he could do it, more or less. But I just went to his YouTube channel, and there's a video labeled new project is going well, and it's just that drone just crashing into the ground. It's like, 10 seconds. That's it.
[00:28:32] Speaker C: As a startup, though, I get that. You know, like, I. I spiritually feel that this is good. Like, that's data they're getting, you know? Like, this was a failure, but this is what we learned.
[00:28:43] Speaker A: Essentially, he's using, like, the crazy. Like you said, it's crazy because it doesn't make. Like, it's the worst. It's, like, the idea and the concept, but the theory and the science and the technology behind it is so real.
[00:29:00] Speaker B: He got bored one day and was like, I gotta do this.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: Just insane.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: Tracking the arch of the dog's back to know when it's pooping.
[00:29:10] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:29:11] Speaker C: Data that you never thought and then put to use.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: And then creating just a drone. And so it was really weird.
[00:29:23] Speaker C: Get through all this, because I think he made an algorithm, like a library, a data set of images that the computer would learn off of for it to recognize what poop is. And it's like, that's okay. That's a little different, but it works, you know?
[00:29:42] Speaker A: And then what happens is he shows you. When the drone rotates, it actually closes the poop thing.
So the.
The. It's carrying this fake poop right now.
And then he'll fly it around, and then he can come in and land it.
And when it lands, all you do is like, push the stick to the left or right and see the drone just yawed a little bit. And when it yaws, it, like, automatically opens this thing. It's the neatest, weirdest thing that I've seen in a little while.
[00:30:21] Speaker C: It's giving the taxidermied cat. That's like the vibe. That's what it's giving to me. But this is way more useful just in terms of feeling, I guess, though.
[00:30:35] Speaker B: Not the AI image.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I was gonna say that. I just saw this AI. This has to be recent. I didn't even look at to see. I mean, the article just comes out right. But I mean, he's like, he's like, yeah. You know, you could have a poop service company and they just show up and you either have like an individual owners or companies that do this. Like, you could mow your own lawn or you could have someone mow it for you. You can.
[00:31:03] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know if it works for dog poop. I feel like unless your yards, like, super small, it's just my. The dog. My dog goes and uses the bathroom in the yard and then doesn't really stay out there for too long, I don't think.
[00:31:15] Speaker A: Or like the grass, it has to be like, really, it's like, it'd be like, you know, hardwood floor versus shag carpet. You know, if there's poop in the shag carpet, it's kind of, kind of. Anyway, yeah, the poop copter, he's pretty. He's very entertaining. We'll have the link posted in the description of the podcast. But he's, he's a. An entertaining person for sure. So what they say. Caleb. Caleb Olson. It's worth a watch. It's very, very interesting. I mean, who knows? You know, if one of those goes. Goes on sale and happens to become available, like early adopter, I might have to do some like, beta testing. Continue me to the site. So storms, the hurricane came through, right? Drones. Drones have showed us kind of.
What the heck is this? Strictly robots. Here we go.
So we talked a lot about drones afterwards. We've seen some of the videos. This here, the NOAA has a saildrone.
And so they were able to actually deploy this saildrone into the ocean. It was in the ocean. So this thing went right into the storm's eye wall where the winds were the strongest. You can see 30 foot waves.
This is what the drone ship looks like right here. I don't understand how this thing goes into a hurricane and survives when you have this big, massive billboard sticking up. Is this.
[00:32:57] Speaker B: It looks like I could just flip it over.
[00:33:01] Speaker A: Right?
70 kilometer, mile an hour winds.
[00:33:05] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:33:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So, again, tech, it's just really cool. I think it said it somewhere in the corner. Yeah, there it was.
71.82 knot. Oh. Not. Not a kilometer, not wind gusts and nine meter wave heights.
So it was like 8600 miles an hour. Like 90, 85. 90 miles an hour winds.
Saildrone. So, the company, saildrone, obviously sold some of these drones to the NOAA.
Look at that.
So, just another one of those things where we've talked about it, but seeing it, I mean, they've got fleets of these things.
[00:34:05] Speaker B: Yeah. And so, like, the under vessel part of the.
I guess we're gonna call it a drone is. It's bigger than you think it is. So that's the reason it doesn't just tip over randomly.
Something cool it does is it maps the ocean floor, I guess, if you wanted it to.
Yeah. This is gonna be insane for gathering data, especially for, like, hurricanes. I can see why the NOAA bought.
[00:34:30] Speaker A: A few made in the USA. Yeah. I mean, you're 100% right. Like, that weight is definitely, like. Like, on bottom is keeping it kind of. Right buoyant, whatever that is.
See solar panels, right? Getting that. Getting that power. You got your wind meter, you got your. Your precision gps.
Pretty awesome little spec sheet. Check out your saildrone.
We got our surveyor. Yep. So, if you want to, you know, map the ocean, you're more research based. You got your voyager little defense and security.
Yeah. This is what I'll like. Yes. This is the boat that I will use to go explore the ocean. My as will stay right here.
I will. I will go anywhere in the. In the ocean that you want to go while sitting here in America.
[00:35:42] Speaker B: Are you scared of the ocean, Paul?
[00:35:46] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. Yes. I don't know if you're in the.
[00:35:50] Speaker B: Middle tube, but you won't. You won't go on a boat ride.
[00:35:53] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I was like, my dad asked me if I wanted to go on a cruise. He's like, yeah, I'll pay for the family. And I was like. As he asked the question, I was like. I was like, the anxiety was just through the roof. It was. It was like. I'm like, all I wanted to do is say no. But it was like, the whole family's gone. I was like, I just thinking about, fine, whatever. And so I said, yes. But then, like, four days later, he's like, yeah, the time's not gonna work out, so we're not gonna go on the cruise. I was like, oh, bummer. Darn, darn. We might just have to go to Disney or Orlando. I was like, oh, no. I go on the cruise so bad.
I've been on one. And the boat rocked, man. I don't know, it's just, I've heard.
[00:36:39] Speaker B: Cruises aren't the best. Usually. They're usually, like, over packed.
It's like being in a busy mall.
[00:36:46] Speaker A: All day and then just the. The floating in the water, you know, like, if you survive it, now you're in the water, you now you have to survive the water. Versus, like, if I could just get on the plane to the ground, and then if I can just, you know, survive the initial impact, it might be a little more severe, but at least then you're walking, you know, once the plane goes down, potentially as long as you're like, femur isn't sticking through your stomach or something.
And so speaking of Samuel's gone missing. So speaking of missing people, we looking at success stories now? And just recently we saw a drone team assist local authorities in rescue mission. Mission rescue rescue of a missing teenager. This is in Eugene, Oregon. There was an endangered teen girl who was reported missing, was actually found unable to move due to exhaustion and rescued on Thursday night of this past week.
They're stating that given her position, they don't think they would have found her without the drone.
Even though once they put the drone up, they did find that this individual is only about 1700ft away from where the drone launched. However, she was stuck in a huge BlackBerry thicket.
So another example of where. Right, just because someone goes missing, it doesn't mean you have 100 people looking. You might have, you know, a smaller, smaller, you know, less population, more area to cover, less people.
So with humans, visual eyes at night, even when someone's this close, you may not be able to find them. But the metro drone team joined the Lane county sheriff's office and approximately 15 search and rescue volunteers. The EPD officer drone operator launched the m 30 drone with a gl 60 mini spotlight. It's a little. Little tech talk there, but the matrice 30 is about an 11,000 $10,000 drone, right, made by DJI. And within minutes, officers are able to locate this individual and then guide the Lane county sheriff's office search and rescue team to her gps coordinates. Using the drone as a spotlight, the deputies were then able to more easily get her out.
[00:39:50] Speaker B: Interesting. I I don't know. I just.
[00:39:52] Speaker A: I.
[00:39:52] Speaker B: When I think of this, it's like, what caused this person to walk into a blueberry thicket? I don't even know what a blueberry thicket is, but you have to get there somehow, you know?
[00:40:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it did say that.
That the.
The girl here.
I don't remember in terms of how.
[00:40:23] Speaker C: She ended up, what Terry was asking.
[00:40:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Officials said that the teenager. Is this what you were saying? She was. Just. Had a top, shorts, no shoes, no phone, no money, food or water, and was in the middle of a mental health crisis.
[00:40:40] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:40:41] Speaker A: Brought on by a physical condition.
[00:40:46] Speaker B: Well, that's my bad. But I don't know.
[00:40:48] Speaker A: Teenage girls, Terry.
[00:40:52] Speaker B: They get lost in those blueberry thickets all time.
[00:40:55] Speaker A: Well, I can't blame them.
[00:40:57] Speaker C: I'd get lost in a blueberry ticket.
[00:41:01] Speaker A: Sounds nice to get very, you know, get your phone taken away. Not. Not really sure exactly what's going on here. Right. So, like, you're right. We don't have the full backstory, but one thing we do know is, when it comes to public safety and you get a phone call, you know, it doesn't really matter. So having the tools. Once this person is stuck in a blueberry thicket with no phone and, you know, no shoes on, at that point, how the. How they got here, it doesn't really matter.
And what was neat is the officer mentioned how he was then able. You know, right here it says, I let them look on my screen in order to see their loved one being cared for by all of the responders. So I just thought the way that this story was told was pretty neat because they highlighted the drone operator and the significance that this played in. One, finding the individual, and then two, you know, also, I think everyone who's flown a drone, even not to save someone, you've always had the people that want to kind of look and see what's going on. And in this instance, being able to just show that screen, it helped people get a feeling of a little happiness back sooner than comfort. The comfort. Right. That comfort returned to these people sooner than having to maybe just wait to physically see the person.
Thanks, Terry.
We've been seeing that. I mean, just like we're seeing the DFR programs pop up, I think, almost once a week, every other week. Now, you're seeing these success stories, especially when everybody's trying to ban DJi. Right? Everybody.
You see these stories more because there's a reason to tell them in the past, people are just taking this technology for granted, right? They use it, they help save someone's life. And they're not like, you know, hey, this is awesome. They're just assuming they're always going to have access to this low cost, super capable technology, but now all of a sudden, they want to ban it. But it's good to see people come out and promote it.
And so when I saw that article, the first thing I was like, well, let's see what drone they used. And sure enough, the M 30.
Sticking on to this success theme, Aslon Company we've talked about a few times in a few episodes of weekly wings unveils their guardian drone, which is an automated aerial security system.
This new solution offers streamlined security for critical industries with 24/7 operational capabilities.
Drone in a box.
So, right, what's the significance of this? Because I'm like thinking, hey, we've already known that they have drones in a box, right?
[00:44:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
I thought we already talked about slons drawn in the box. Is this a new one they've released?
[00:44:25] Speaker A: This is. So the key point here is the autonomous autonomous feature. They have now introduced not just a drone in a box, but a drone in a box that does all the autonomous recharging battery swaps and it can be deployed without human intervention. So they're fully tied into all their sensors. That's what I'm reading into this system. So being able to do routine patrols and monitoring all in real time without having to have a human in the loop.
And what's super interesting is there's that red button. This red button right here is started on the DJI dock, but it's now becoming synonymous with almost every other dock.
[00:45:27] Speaker B: Kind of like that.
[00:45:29] Speaker A: It's an emergency stop button.
[00:45:32] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:45:34] Speaker C: Design wise that makes sense.
[00:45:35] Speaker A: It's kind of like that yellow, like the yellow parachute cap that's coming, you know, you see on the. All the systems and so automated key features of the Guardian, Aslon's drone IQ software. It integrates with the ground solutions like drone dog and connects to the existing VMS, video management softwares and alarm systems. So they have autonomated operations, pathogen battery swap, FAA compliance, and optimize for BV loss waivers.
Yep.
So another development and advancement for them as they continue to build out their security platform.
[00:46:27] Speaker B: Could we not to take away from aslon, but could we bring up that d box like package drone in the box thing that I sent not too long ago?
Yes, it's kind of a. So it's a drone in a box, but they don't supply you with the drone. You can just kind of put any drone you want in there, from what I can tell. I just thought it was really cool. It's a little expensive, but just kind of like a plug and play system.
A pretty cool video you guys can go watch is robots versus thieves. My new security system by hacksmith Industries. They use this system in their video.
That one has a green button, not a red button.
[00:47:18] Speaker A: Notably, green means. Green means go.
[00:47:23] Speaker B: You press that button and go. It's just everything takes off all at once.
[00:47:28] Speaker A: Yeah. This thing's pretty interesting looking.
[00:47:31] Speaker B: Yeah. But you, you just kind of, I guess, get new firmware on your drone. I don't know exactly how it works, but it just flies the drone for you. I actually. I think you put the controller in the box and that uses a little robot to fly.
[00:47:49] Speaker A: Yeah, there's, there's a company called Hextronics.
[00:47:56] Speaker B: I know how reliable that is. It's pretty cool.
[00:48:00] Speaker A: There's a company called Hextronics and they have a dock.
The other sound circuit boards.
I think it's the universal. Yeah, so the universal. It's kind of funny. This thing will take off and then it like, lands back in the.
[00:48:28] Speaker B: It's like a pizza oven.
[00:48:30] Speaker C: Yeah.
Well, there goes the drone.
[00:48:36] Speaker A: There's the. Because this thing works with the, the same, the same concept as your DJI. And so I saw this in, at Commercial UAV. Actually, I think they're going to show it right here in this. They might. You actually put the remote in? Yeah, just like this.
I make sure we're not going to kill anybody.
[00:49:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:49:07] Speaker A: And it's still loud.
It's impressive. Putting your remote in, enabling autonomy. Oh, sh.
They must have showed the install way back here.
[00:49:20] Speaker B: Like, removes and adds new batteries. I mean, this is a pretty cool concept by both of these companies.
[00:49:26] Speaker A: Yeah. And then this is what the app looks like on your screen, like on your phone. So you put the batteries in. It's got a little.
But how many cycles have they ran on this thing, you know, and then the controller gets plugged in, and so the controller has to be turned on. It's inside this box. So you're flying the remote still, but you're, you're sending commands to the remote over the Internet, which any other box is no different.
Right. Like the box that you just showed Terry, you have to put the remote inside. So that's just super strange because you, you think of like, is it going to overheat? You know, you have a screen that you don't need. So there's, there's, it's not, it wasn't designed for that. Is it going to die? Is it going to trip out? So when you look at a traditional dock, you're building the dock with the same components that are in the remote, but you're not doing, but the remote doesn't exist, if that makes sense.
[00:50:43] Speaker B: I do believe the D box software is open source as well.
I think that's why the hacksmith industries used that particular one, because they could kind of do whatever they wanted with it.
[00:50:54] Speaker A: Yeah, you can like, because a lot of these autonomous boxes, you're wanting it to do some really crazy stuff. So the manufacturer of some of these boxes are building them for very specific use cases like first responder or industrial inspection.
The third party software might not always work. If you build your own box, you have full control over the developer toolkits and software and all that stuff.
But here we have again, we're kind of transitioning to our regulatory corner.
Montgomery County Sheriff's office will be launching a drone as a first responder program in the Woodlands.
This came out maybe about a week ago. Texas county is initiating their DFR program in a Houston suburb. Woodlands is a master planned suburban development 30 miles north of Houston. Growing list of communities that are coming under the watchful eye of police agency DFR programs. Sounds like there's some money there, right?
[00:52:06] Speaker C: To me it does.
[00:52:07] Speaker A: Community might even be helped pay for some of this stuff.
So starting by the end of October, right. Hopefully they're, they're initiating some of their DFR tests before Halloween, focusing around the Woodlandstown center, Austin based company. So it looks like they're going to be using drone sense software. So if they're using drone sense, I wonder and see here they talk about the real time crime center, the real time crime center. That's where all the data is going to get pushed to.
Drone will be able to help them determine what kind of resources will be needed in order to, you know, respond more efficiently. The sheriff's office currently holds four FAA certification of authorization waivers authorizing BV loss flights. These authorize first responder BV loss and tactical BV loss, which allow flights beyond visual out of sight, generally with a visual observer. The sheriff's office will use its first responder BV loss to operate its DFR program until the department receives its full BV loss waiver.
Oh, wow. This sheriff's office has 16 drones. What kind of drones do they have? Well, largely compromised of DJI models. Including the Mavic two, the Mavic enterprise two, the Mavic enterprise three, and the matrice 30 t, as well as an autel evo two.
[00:54:02] Speaker B: Just one.
Everything else is DJI.
[00:54:06] Speaker A: Here we go. The department also has six DJI Avada drones for indoors tactile operations and it recently acquired a DJI doc two with the matrice three TD. Good for them.
Good for them.
How awesome.
16 of its officers are certified in remote pilot.
That's fantastic.
[00:54:34] Speaker B: Good for them.
[00:54:35] Speaker A: Yes. This is.
[00:54:37] Speaker B: This is in. What, like, what, what is this near the Woodlands?
[00:54:41] Speaker A: Houston. Yeah, I was going to try to look it up too, to see.
Just. I just wanted to get an idea.
[00:54:50] Speaker B: Houston, there's a place called Ray Ford.
[00:54:59] Speaker A: Not images. Let's go to maps. Oh, wow, look at this, dude.
Um.
[00:55:08] Speaker B: Massive area.
[00:55:12] Speaker A: Yeah, but what the heck is that water all about?
Of the lake Woodlands.
Yeah, that makes sense. Definitely an area where you've got a lot going on. A drone could probably help, but.
Hmm. Woodlands Country Club. So I imagine it's this whole area here. Looks like it'd be a good spot.
[00:55:48] Speaker B: Has a lot of money.
[00:55:49] Speaker A: Drone delivery.
[00:55:51] Speaker B: Yeah, it does look like a great spot for drone delivery.
[00:55:55] Speaker A: You know, it's just like. I wonder if you could just like, multi layer this with a camera and just be like, in case of an emergency delivery. Drone camera on.
It's like, you know, like. Like you're like delivering to this street and at the same time a police calls coming in four houses down.
[00:56:15] Speaker C: I mean, for that decomposition, I feel like that's.
[00:56:18] Speaker B: Look at this.
[00:56:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
Eventually have to talk to each other.
[00:56:27] Speaker A: Or just deploy the.
Just deploy the delivery drone.
[00:56:33] Speaker B: It's already there.
[00:56:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
Is that cloud? No. All right.
Um, a patent. Are you guys familiar with Bosch?
[00:56:46] Speaker B: The company, Bosch, they make electric razors. I think eventually.
[00:56:54] Speaker A: I don't think they do. They make razors.
[00:56:57] Speaker B: I don't think they make Yamaha.
[00:57:00] Speaker A: That's.
[00:57:01] Speaker B: Make whatever they want.
[00:57:02] Speaker A: That's brawn. Brawn. Definitely makes razors.
Bosch, it's a little different.
If someone is cutting your.
If someone just trimming your beard with a Bosch tool, you're. You owe a debt to some bookie.
Bosch.
[00:57:26] Speaker B: They do have hair care products.
[00:57:27] Speaker A: What?
[00:57:28] Speaker B: They have hair care products? No, no razors. But they have hair care products.
[00:57:32] Speaker A: Bosch does.
[00:57:34] Speaker B: Yes. They make those tools as well.
[00:57:37] Speaker A: Okay, I'll take your word for it, but yeah, so, like, the power tool company I grew up with, when someone said get at work at the get the Bosche impact, I always knew the Bosch as the hammer. The hammer drill for putting rebar into the sides of buildings and stuff like that. But anyway, Bosch has a anti drone system that they have gotten a patent for.
So why is this interesting? Of all the counter UA's technologies, especially the ones we talked about earlier, is the technology that they have introduced is for drone to drone.
Counter Ua's.
So pilot on the ground, putting a drone up in the air, right, potentially using that drone to scan the airspace around, detect a nearby drone, and then also transmit, right, a jamming signal.
[00:59:01] Speaker B: It's interesting that Bosch is now getting into drones.
[00:59:06] Speaker A: Well, we talked about in the past though, it's like Ford Motor Company has a bunch of patents out for drones and attaching them to vehicles, but they've never moved forward on these patents. They're just securing it. It's like, it's like when you have a team of people that know how to write patents, you're writing patents because it's like buying a website. You don't know if you're ever going to use it. But hell, if somebody all of a sudden is trying to come up with a product, you can sell them.
They could sell the patent.
[00:59:36] Speaker C: You have that.com already in place.
[00:59:49] Speaker A: The.
It'd be like.
And right, government funding just going back to last year, $33 million contracts.
The technology is crazy. Like, what is the answer? What is the solution? You know, shooting it down once it's inside this range. What if you deploy a drone? Like just send a drone out and have a drone constantly doing a perimeter scan. Well, what if it detects another drone? What the hell? It doesn't even need to detect a drone. This thing is just going to fly around and constantly send out a jamming signal.
And. And you know what, Terry? What if you attack? What if you were piloting this drone with a.
Oh, goodness.
Fiber optic cable?
[01:00:49] Speaker B: I knew you're gonna ask.
Well, let's see. That's where you go back to AP's, a system where they can shoot it down or hit it with another drone. Okay? It doesn't need to be jammed.
[01:01:00] Speaker A: That's right. This because this now your own drone is susceptible.
But hey, you could have a tethered fiber optic cable attached to a drone that's emitting a jamming frequency. And because that drone is being piloted, as you had pointed out, we didn't really dive into, but now there is some overlap.
Fiber optic remote piloting for anti jamming.
We have one final piece of news that we're going to dive into here before we sign off for this week. And it takes us to Boston in Boston man faces $5,000 fine and drone forfeiture for flight over marathon.
And then there's the not so good stories with DJI being involved.
A Boston man is facing serious legal consequences after flying his DJI Mavic drone dangerously close to the Boston marathon finish line, prompting a dramatic mid air interception by law enforcement.
30 years old. Alan Nip.
[01:02:27] Speaker B: I found his Instagram profile.
Already. I just looked up his name. There he is.
No, his accounts private.
[01:02:38] Speaker A: Oh.
Once the drone was secured, law enforcement traced it back to his apartment on West Springfield street, where he reportedly admitted to flying it that morning.
So they were able to.
His remote controller issued warnings he was in the restricted zone. He ignored them.
Interesting.
Federal law enforcement. We're monitoring the airspace. So here, you know, you have the Boston Marathon. So, like, of all places, you know, the Boston Marathon, where not so long ago, very awful things have happened.
What's really neat about this story is to know that the federal. Right.
I don't know what.
What word to use here. The federal law enforcement was on site, and they were actively monitoring the airspace they must have had here. We've talked about two or three counter UA's solutions that exist.
You know, it's refreshing to see that they had the system working and they actually caught somebody. Right?
[01:04:11] Speaker B: Well, did they see it, or did they get alerted with something they were using? I mean, it's possible they just seen a drone and then followed it back to where he was at.
[01:04:23] Speaker A: Right? Well, that's what it says here. The drone was detected by federal law enforcement monitoring the airspace near the finish line.
It was intercepted mid flight and was landed in a secure location in Boston's back Bay area.
[01:04:41] Speaker B: So it's intercepted.
[01:04:44] Speaker A: And once it was secured, they traced it back to his apartment.
Yeah, they took this guy's drone, man. They intercepted.
[01:04:53] Speaker B: Pulled over.
[01:04:54] Speaker A: They did. Yeah, they. They were. They were doing what should have been done in Pennsylvania hours before O'Reilly rally.
[01:05:06] Speaker B: I wonder what system they used for that.
To hijack the drone, make it come back with them.
[01:05:16] Speaker A: And you know what's curious is, like, did they do their pre planning in order to know, like, you don't. You don't detect a drone. And then I. And then you're like, oh, where the. Where should we land it? Oh, my God. I didn't even think a drone was gonna show up.
You know what I mean? Like, they. I would imagine they were like, look, if we detect a drone in this sector, this is where we're going to force it to land.
That's like an. That's a well established security plan, right? Not just to say, well, we're gonna set up and detect drones. Well, what if we detect one? Where are we gonna put it? Where are we gonna make this drone land so that we can get to it first?
Right? They had it land in a secure location. It didn't. Didn't land anywhere. It landed in what they would define as a secure location. Hey, we intercepted a flight here, and we're going to send it here. But if we had intercepted it down over here, right, the landing point probably would have been somewhere else.
This dude's like, oh, my God, can you imagine being old Allen?
Your drone just never comes back?
[01:06:31] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I'm assuming the secure area had to be somewhere open, because we know what happened at the Boston marathon before. They were probably expecting there to be some type of, you know, weapon on it. So they probably landed it in, like, an open field. I wonder if. I don't know.
[01:06:52] Speaker A: Oh, and they probably had bought. They probably had a. They probably flew a drone up to it. They probably, you know, treated it like, as if it was an explosive.
But great job. Great job by those folks for, you know, it seems like it wasn't a significant threat. But again, good practice if you don't. If you can't tell, right? And I think that's where remote id comes into play. So I'd be really curious to know.
I already kind of closed it out here. I'd be curious to know, like, is this person certified? I mean, there's no way you could be and have done that. I just don't think most people would have gone through a course and know, like, hey, these are the do's and don'ts. And if you aren't. If you aren't a hundred percent sure that you should be there, you shouldn't be there, right? Like, if you're like, you know, teenage, you're out drinking some beers and shooting some guns and something like, well, I didn't know we couldn't be here. Did someone give you permission to be here? Right. You know what I mean? Samuels. Like, what the hell is he talking about?
[01:08:00] Speaker C: Like, I think that adds up.
[01:08:03] Speaker A: I would say had a lot of fun growing up in Connecticut. Be like, well, there wasn't a sign that said we couldn't be here. Well, is there a sign that says you can be here? No.
Yeah, so that. That was a pretty interesting one. That was one that jumped out as I had to go all the way to, like, page four. You know, it was like, Ukraine, Ukraine, Israel, Ukraine. Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, China. Russia's building drones in China. You know, who's surprised, though? And then it was like, fourth page. It was like, Boston, man, $5,000 fine. I was like, oh, wow, we still have a long way to go on, on the education here, but. But, yeah, great job by the law enforcement involved there. Is running any marathons anytime soon?
No.
[01:08:54] Speaker C: Terry. Talking to Terry about running a five.
[01:08:56] Speaker A: K. Five k, goodness. Yeah, that's me. I. I sign up for the five k, and then I show up and I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna kill it. It's like 30 seconds in. I'm like, oh, my God, I'm gonna die. I'm here for the shirt. No, Terry, Terry. It's just a short 35 minutes jog.
[01:09:18] Speaker B: You know, just a short 35 minutes jog. That would never be able to happen for me personally.
[01:09:24] Speaker A: Five k walk, run.
[01:09:27] Speaker B: I could do that. I'll get there in a few hours. So we'll see.
[01:09:31] Speaker A: Well, fantastic episode as always.
We talked a little bit about space and the dragon that recently made it to the ISS that will be flying back, the crew that went up, as well as test pilots who have been there and will be there for significantly longer time than they expected.
If you're in the Dallas area and you happen to be able to check out the sky elements, shows we're super jealous, but can't wait to see what they continue to do. Counter UA's talked a lot about that because just all the significance, it's playing both here in the United States and then also what that technology means for, you know, military operations. So certainly it's getting a lot of awareness, and then there's a lot of funding that goes into defense and security. So it'll be interesting to see how that technology matures over the next twelve to 24 months for use both here and abroad. The poop copter, we'll put the link in there. You can check it out. You got to watch the video. It's super funny. It's interesting. It has a lot of that technical aspect of, you know, image recognition, machine learning, and then the UA's side. So pretty cool there. A saildrone flying into the hurricane. Same thing with the counter UA's tech. It'll be an interesting to see how marine UA's or marine UAV's continue to develop.
And then great job, I would say public safety. We appreciate what everybody's doing. Law enforcement, fire, emergency responders, you know, it's easy to think during those times of emergency response to recognize it, but it's the things that they're doing on a daily basis, finding missing teenagers, helping folks during the natural disasters and then, and then also, you know, doing things to ensure that these, you know, large events stay safe, you know, using the technology to find the folks that are non compliant and help make sure that things, things go safe. So lots of information packed in this episode. As always, we appreciate all of our listeners folks for tuning in. Hopefully you found some, you know, knowledge, insight and information in this episode. We appreciate you tuning in. Thank you to dronelife.com. make sure to check out dronelife.com throughout the week between now and next episode to get all of the latest information and news on the UA's industry.
Thank you, Terry. Thank you, Samuel. Appreciate your time and attention and we will see you all next week on the next episode of Weekly Wings. Thank you, everybody.
[01:12:21] Speaker B: Thank you.
