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Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl halftime show had no special guests — unless you count the drones.

Intel Drones supplied Lady Gaga and the NFL with a show-stopping show-starter — 300 Shooting Star drones painting the night sky in a pre-recorded segment in Houston, as she sang “God Bless America.” The closing scene with the Pepsi logo also was those same pre-recorded drones.

For The Win spoke to two of Intel Drones’ top people — general manager Natalie Cheung, who was on the ground in Houston running things, and vice president of business Anil Nanduri, who organized the collaboration — about the show and the future of drones in entertainment.

Let Cheung and Nanduri answer all your questions now that you’ve seen their work in action.

After Watching Casey Neistat flying from a drone, I was left with a lot of questions. Was this real? This certainly did not happen in the US. Watch the BTS footage to learn how it was accomplished.

November 14, 2016, the FAA issued an amendment letter and attached it to your docket on November 18, 2016, amending your Section 333 exemption.

Important - FAA regulations state you must carry this new amendment with you during all Section 333 Commercial UAS flights.

NASA's concept for a UTM System would safely manage diverse UAS operations in the airspace above buildings and below crewed aircraft operations in suburban and urban areas.  Photo:  NASA AMES Research Center

The state of New York last week announced that it’s investing $30 million to develop a 50-mile flight traffic management system between Syracuse and Griffiss International Airport in Rome, one of six unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test sites approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

An application for a Certificate of Waiver, issued in accordance with 14 CFR 107.200, must provide justification that the operation can be safely conducted by satisfying the performance based standards listed below.

Todd Hollingshead

In a video recently recorded by BYU civil engineering professor Kevin Franke, a dog lays in front of the ruins of a house in the Italian mountains. Franke surmises the dog’s owners may have lived there before the devastating earthquake on Aug. 24.

While rescue efforts for the lethal 6.2 magnitude quake are over now, Franke was there for another reason: He was one of four U.S. professors invited to a special geotechnical engineering reconnaissance mission to learn how the earthquake impacted ancient and modern infrastructure.

CNN announces today that it has become the first organization to be granted a waiver by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly unmanned aerial systems (UAS) over people in the United States.