Sustainable Skylines Secures first-ever FAA authorization for Drones to Tow Full-Size Promoting Banners
by DRONELIFE Staff Author Walker Robinson
Sustainable Skylines has been awarded the first-ever authorization by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for drones to tow full-size promoting banners. This decision is the results of a decade-long campaign for regulatory approval for utilizing drones in aerial promoting. Advert-towing drones are safer, more environmentally friendly, and more flexible than their traditional manned airplane counterparts.
Sustainable Skylines, an industry leader in full-size drone promoting banner towing operations, will launch their banner towing drones over Miami Beach, Florida. Leveraging computer vision, data analytics, and real-time flight footage Sustainable Skylines offers their promoting clients actionable insights into find out how to best utilize their promoting. With the advantages of drone-towed advertisements, they hope to guide a more sustainable and effective approach to aerial promoting within the twenty first century.
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The corporate has an exclusive partnership with drone manufacturer Velary, makers of each small and passenger uncrewed vehicles.
“Banner promoting is one other exciting example of the brand new opportunities that industrial drones bring to our economy, while enhancing the security of the National Airspace System,” said Lisa Ellman, chair of the Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) practice at global law firm Hogan Lovells, which facilitated Sustainable Skyline’s FAA approval. “Sustainable Skylines is reinventing an old industry with a brand new technology and delivering exponential value through using secure, clean drone technology that may scale, entertain and create recent jobs, too.”
There are risks related to traditional manned banner towing planes that using drones would minimize. While crashes and mishaps are unusual within the industry, drones would further reduce risk to people on the bottom and fully eliminate risk to the pilot.
Unlike airplanes, drones can take off vertically, removing proximity to a runway from the constraints of promoting. This opens up recent, previously unutilized promoting space, where there isn’t any runway available. It will also open up invaluable runway space at often overcrowded metropolitan airports.
Drone banner towing also offers a more sustainable approach to aerial promoting. The drones have a smaller carbon footprint than their plane counterparts. And armed with the true time data-analytics, they will make a more targeted and efficient use of their flight time. This equates to more eyes on an commercial with less time required within the sky.
Although that is the primary FAA Authorization for full-size banner towing drones, there are prone to be more in the approaching years, as the advantages of drones make them a horny and sustainable approach to promoting within the sky.
“It is a significant milestone for Sustainable Skylines and the broader drone industry, explained Jacob Stonecipher, founder and CEO of Sustainable Skylines. “Our team has worked tirelessly toward this regulatory approval; we wouldn’t be here without the guidance of Lisa Ellman and her team at Hogan Lovells. We’re excited to work with our partners to securely launch and integrate banner promoting by drone into the local airspace and community.”
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