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Not All Drones Are So Scary
"Whatever you write, please don't call it a drone," Steen Mogensen says, gently touching the tail of a 19-foot orange and white helicopter. Mogensen, the CEO of Scion UAS, doesn't mean this vehicle can't fly without a pilot — we're at the unmanned vehicles convention in Washington D.C. — but he takes issue with the term.
"It just strikes fear into a lot of people," says Mogensen, who with his soft Danish accent and slight potbelly is himself decidedly not scary. Even talking about the more controversial aspects of unmanned aircraft, he manages to take the edge off with a touch of folksiness: "If you fear they will fly overhead and take a picture of your wife in a swimming pool, just remember that your neighbor can put his iPhone on a stick and do the same thing." (Of course, an iPhone can't hover hundreds of feet in the air for hours on end and be controlled from a remote location.) Read more...
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