US engineers have used a remotely-piloted drone to survey power lines without visual or radar contact. Flown as part of the Kansas Department of Transportation’s unmanned aircraft pilot program, the drone used automatic on-board detect-and-avoid systems to make this beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) operation possible. “This marks the first true BVLOS flight in the nation and is ...

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