August 2014 POPULAR SCIENCE () September, 2014 Popular Science Magazine found 25 good reasons to love drones. SARAH is one of them... 21) They're winning Academy Awards The official tally at this point: Flying-Cam SARAH 3.0, two Oscars; Leonardo DiCaprio, zero. The helicopter drone represents the third generation of aerial cameras credited with more than 80 feature films, including Skyfall and Transformers: Age of Extinction. The SARAH can capture single takes that begin at ground level and rise to 400 feet (the limit per FAA regulations); it also follows autopilot routes to within 2.5 centimeters and can hover in winds blowing more than 30 miles per hour. An onboard digital camera tilts 180 degrees up and down and can rotate 360 degrees in midair. As Haik Gazarian, Flying-Cam’s director of operations, puts it: “We are at the beginning of an era of being able to produce complex camera moves that could never be achieved before.” |
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