Paradigm shift. A paradigm shift (or revolutionary science) is, according to Thomas Kuhn, in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), a change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms, within the ruling theory of science. It is in contrast to his idea of normal science. According to Kuhn, A paradigm is what members of a scientific community, and the information they alone, share. We are the new scientists and experimenters of robotic aviation. The news media has been going after guns for years. Originally govs went after books. There was a time when books used to be the public controversial topic of the day. Women were strictly forbidden to read and still are in some countries. There has always been something that the public is afraid of. News media hyped paranoia of drones is over sensationalized to an extreme. If you crash land a plastic drone in someones tree then you must have been spying on them! - Dont flatter yourself there Mr. Celebrity. It is about as much of a news story as a kid kicking a soccer ball into your back yard as long as no one was hurt. Back in the 1950s when baseball was king and some kid hit a baseball through someones window we didnt ban baseballs and baseball bats. We embraced baseball. It became our national pastime. People learned baseball and became professionals at it. The same has to happen with robotics technology in the air and on land in the United States. We have to open our arms and educate our children so that future generations of our citizens are not left behind with this technology. The more people we get flying and interested in aviation; the more people might enlist in the service with an interest in helping defend our country in new possible ways. There is a robotics race occurring in the world. I would say that we are doing well in this robotics race. However there are looming communist countries that are racing to quickly educate their citizens in robotics. It is up to us to teach our children and get them interested in aviation and robotics. This is the future of our world. We cant keep it hidden in a dark corner of a closet. And say thats bad. We need to have more robotics classes in Universities and schools. - And it is imperative that we teach and show them how robotics can be used for civic purposes. So many aspects of our lives are changing and we are seeing things we have never seen from new perspectives never thought imaginable in just a few short years. I think that personal drones have been given an unfair black eye in the pubic view. The public has been trained to think people are certified perverts before we even got them off the ground. But faster and faster people like myself and others are showing the public the beautiful potential of these machines. They are not in fact something sinister, but something with grand potential and local benefit. They can be used to save lives and resources. And that is worth nurturing. Drones can and are being used for civic purposes. Fire service, search and rescue, farms, land monitoring, storm assessment, insurance and liability, motor vehicle accidents, earthquake disaster assistance, hurricanes, tornado, floods, bridge inspection, power lines, oil rig assessment, high rise building inspections, interior building architecture scanning for determining buildings are level and to code, real estate, charter boat industry, DOT planning and assistance, city developers, federal park rangers, municipal police departments, eventually Fed Ex and UPS will all be A to B automated cargo flights on a different route than regular air traffic, pipeline overview and inspection, city power lines, and much more. We are just cracking the surface of the numerous uses of drones. The drone is a tool worth sharing with others. It also used to be that governments were at the leading edge of technology. Now with the acceleration of technology exceeding the public norm; some of this technology on a smaller scale is in the average guys hands. Which we see can be used in some awesome and fairly idiotic ways. Society is afraid of things they dont understand or cant totally control. So the job of the gov is to figure out how to regulate things so that chaos doesnt occur. Which I dont believe is quite happening yet. But we are at a wild west standpoint of the drone movement. We are in the dark ages of the entire robotic flight movement. I often think of what Orville and Wilbur Wright would think about our autonomous, GPS assisted, unmanned flight of robotic aircraft these days. They would be blown away with what we are doing! Fascinated by it. My R/C drone store is on the Outer Banks that is The Home of Flight. Ironically, I just heard that drone flying has been banned in federal parks? Can you imagine if Orville and Wilbur Wright were told when they showed up at Jockeys Ridge that what they were doing was too dangerous that someone might get hurt? To take their shifty glider back home. Maybe the airplane would have never been invented? I believe that we are standing on the edge of what Wilbur and Orville Wright felt as they soared from that sand dune in those summer winds of North Carolina. Many of us dont realize it but we are innovators and we are experimenting and embracing new ideas and innovations. Sure we are pilots and innovators on a small scale, but we are at the controls of a new medium of creativity. I would like to see people take honor this new source of inspiration for so many. Alas, we must remain patient as laws, and rules are being made by our governing bodies. They wont be made over night but, eventually things will pan out and everyone will understand the rules. The public will come to accept drones as a useful tool and not something that will spy on their veggie patch or in their window. We all have mini blinds. And no one said a thing when Google Maps scanned the surface of the planet including your veggie patch. The news media and privacy organizations didnt cry foul play! when that happened. Everyone applauded it. So we have to remember that this is something new. People are generally cautious and afraid of new things they dont understand. It is up to us as R/C enthusiast to help foster and educate the public on what these drones actually are used for. People are becoming more aware everyday of the awesome capability of drones. My community for example has gone from not knowing about them to actually embracing and being awestruck at what can be done with them. Even more so when I show them how easy they are to fly on a simulator. So as the FAA, Federal, state and local governments decide what to do it is our job as hobbyists to help educate our congressmen and senators on the subject of R/C flying. R/C is as old as baseball. As much of a pastime as a game of football. It is something that we honor and cherish for coming generations to learn, grow, and spark imagination in others to create things we never dreamed imaginable... The future is uncertain. But one thing is for certain. Drones are here to stay. Justin Davis. - Drone Camps RC Keys to helping others with your drones: Education, Aviation enthusiasm, Resource management, Public Service.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 05:18:37 +0000
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