Stories from 400 Feet
Drone professionals are making dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs safer, faster, and more actionable. In this podcast, we highlight the everyday and the not-so-everyday stories of drones and technologies being used in the field, whether that is to conduct routine data collection or to test new and exciting avenues for the drone industry. If a drone flies, we’ll be there!
Episodes
37 episodes
Craig Husselby Talks About Synergy Aviation's Latest Expansion into the U.S.
At Energy Drone Robotics Coalition Summit (EDRS) in Houston, I sat down with Craig Husselby, VP of Business Development for Synergy Aviation to talk about oil and gas pipeline inspections and their recent expansion into the U.S.
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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3:09
Empowering Indigenous Communities Through Drone Technology
Jacob Taylor - CEO Indigenous Aerospace; Darian Edwards, Indigenous Air Mobility Specialist, Canadian Advanced Air Mobility; Kimble McComb, Drone Advisor, Moose Cree First Nation; and Jo-Anne Tabobandung Dean of Aviation, First Nation Tec...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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15:22
Safe and Efficient Data Collection in Challenging Environments
Justin Simkins, a Technical Specialist from Emesent, joins us this week on how Hovermap is creating a new industry standard in autonomous lidar mapping. Justin discusses Emesent's SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) based ...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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8:02
Drone Market Trends and Investment Perspectives with Kay Wackwitz, CEO of Drone Industry Insights and Abhinav Singhvi, CFO of Volatus Aerospace
What are the current trends in the drone market? What do investors think about the drone industry? How do the answers to these questions impact the drone industry and how do we bridge the gap between positive market trends and investor confiden...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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40:55
Remotely Piloting Beyond Visual Line of Sight Near an Active Airport with Optical Detect & Avoid and No Visual Observers
Richard Podolski, VP of Flight Operations, talks in-depth about the recent SFOC granted to Volatus Aerospace by Transport Canada to remotely pilot a drone using Remote Flight Control System (RFCS) software and optical Detect and Avoid (DAA) wit...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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8:55
Delegate for Transport Canada, Nigel Waterhouse, Discusses the Integration of Large Autonomous Drones into the National Airspace
While at CanSec, we sat down with Nigel Waterhouse, Delegate for Transport Canada, to discuss the challenges and nuances between autonomous passenger flight, remotely piloted passenger flight, and uncrewed cargo delivery when it comes to integr...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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10:01
Ali Dian, CEO of Aerovel, Discusses the Defense and Commercial Applications of Flexrotor
Designed by Dr. Tad McGeer, the inventor of the ScanEagle (a UAV that defined a whole new group of military aircraft), the Flexrotor from Aerovel is a vertical takeoff and landing autonomous aircraft with a pedigree that predates most com...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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22:43
Task Force Drone Provides Canadian Veterans the Training to Start a Second Career
Colonel (ret'd) Michel Latouche, leader of the Veteran Training Program, Task Force Drone, speaks about the challenges veterans face when retiring from the military and how becoming a drone pilot can be a fulfilling second career that leverages...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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9:02
Stories from Ukraine: Brothers & Sisters in Arms
We speak with Lieutenant Colonel Melanie Lake about what it has been like witnessing the Russian invasion of Ukraine after serving with Ukrainian soldiers as a commander during Operati...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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13:54
Stories from Ukraine: Evacuation
What does it take to evacuate a family from Ukraine? What are the dangers involved? We spoke with a gentleman, who in order to keep his family safe has asked to remain anonymous, about what it took to not only get his family out of Ukraine but ...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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4:39
An Industry First: Elizabeth Police Department Obtains BVLOS Waiver for Drone as a First Responder Program in Class B Airspace with Paladin's Knighthawk
Divy Shrivastava, Founder and CEO of Paladin, joins us again on Stories from 400 Feet to talk about working with the Elizabeth Police Department in New Jersey to obtain one of the first Beyond Visual Line...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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24:52
Partnering to Bring Drone Solutions to Latin America: Interview with Bruno Leoni, CEO of EOLO
Latin America is an important emerging market for drone applications, but to understand its needs, culture, and regulations across many different countries requires a combination of demonstrated experience and local knowledge. We spoke with Bru...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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9:48
Iowa State University's Geology Dept. Uses Drones for the First Time to Study Earthquakes with the Help of Pacific Triangle
What determines when an earthquake will happen or not? Slow-Slip Events are relatively minor movements that don't cause massive disruption like earthquakes despite having similar elements. Subduction, the process of a plate sliding under anothe...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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23:33
Defining Autonomy, Automation, & BVLOS: An Interview with Andy Lacher, Chief Technologist for Future Airspace Operations – Intelligent Flight Systems, NASA Langley Research Center
Andy Lacher is currently the Chief Technologist for Future Airspace Operations in the Intelligent Flight Systems organization at NASA’s Langley Research Center where he works on the safe operational integration of new aviation technologies. His...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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40:25
By Adding a Position Sensor Inside Their High-Performance Propulsion System, IQ Motion Control Offers OEMs Better Position Control and Advanced Health Monitoring
By embedding a position sensor inside their propulsion system, IQ Motion Control is enabling better position control and safety protocols and advanced health monitoring that eliminates the need for a swashplate. We spoke with Co-Fou...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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6:29
Rethinking the Mailbox to Make Way for Drone Delivery
We spoke with Dan O'Toole about drone delivery infrastructure and how reimagining secure mailboxes is an essential element to scaling autonomous package delivery.
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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4:57
Talking About Tethered Drone Applications with Troy Hittle of Elistair
We asked Troy Hittle, Managing Director of North America for Elistair, what can you do with a tethered drone? More than you think. Tethered drone solutions are starting to get more traction as industries look for 24/7 overwatch solutions, but, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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9:20
If Your Drone Crashed, Would You Be Covered? Choosing the Right Insurance to Protect Your Assets
If your drone crashed, would you be covered? This is a question every end user and drone pilot should be asking before starting a mission, because finding out afterward is too late. Crashes can be costly and dangerous, and you want...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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9:04
How Sky Ladder Conquered the Mission Impossible Bridge
You've inspected one bridge with a drone, you can inspect them all, right? If only that were true! Unfortunately for inspectors, engineers and architects have deployed multiple designs and materials in the building of bridges all over the world...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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Inspired Flight Talks About Blue sUAS, Supply Chain Management, and End User Maturity
In this episode, Adam Bilmes, Director of Sales at Inspired Flight, talks about Blue sUAS and their American-made drone, being prepared to handle supply chain disruptions, the growing maturity and savvy of end users, and what this all means for...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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7:10
Law Tech Connect Program at AUVSI 2022 Brought Attorneys and the Drone Industry Together Like Never Before
Back in 2019, Dawn Zoldi, Founder and CEO of P3 Tech Consulting LLC, had a vision to bring attorneys and the drone industry together to network and share knowledge. In 2022 at AUVSI XPONENTIAL, she finally got to realize that dream. After atten...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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8:57
An Italian Drone Inspired by Mother Nature that Can Takeoff and Land from the Water: EuroLink Systems' Beluga
We spoke with Pietro Lapiana, President of EuroLink Systems, about the inspiration and applications of their elegantly engineered Beluga Drone. Built for both defense and commercial applications, the Beluga is capable of taking off and landing ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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10:48
Building a Safety Culture that Can Move at the Speed of Technological Innovation: Why Communication Is Key
David Krause, Co-Founder of Influential Drones, has been working in technology for over 25 years. Influential Drones is a sales, training and aerial service provider. Dave provides consulting and the company is a volunteer Industry Member...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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9:48
Where Are We With Type Certification and How Will This Enable Life-Saving Medical Deliveries?
Chris Corgnati, President of MissionGO, speaks about the current status of Type Certification for uncrewed systems and how this ties into the work they are doing with MediGo delivering life-saving organs and other critical medical supplies.&nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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7:32
Enabling Commercial Industry to Leverage the Full Potential of Drones: Interview with Steve Coulson, Founder and CCO of COPTRZ
We often talk about a "drone industry" but really there are a number of industries that leverage drones to make operations faster, safer, cheaper, and better. But finding the right platforms and sensors, getting the right talent to conduc...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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9:39
