A Philadelphia-based
startup company looking to make a splash in the advertising industry by
flying small drones with vertical banners says it will take to the
airways over the Las Vegas Strip to demonstrate the product this week.
There’s only one problem.
The Federal Aviation Administration considers the concept illegal.
Executives
with DroneCast say Las Vegas will be one of its launch cities and the
company is planning demonstration flights at various locations through
Saturday.
The company’s national media and promotional tour
continues at Venice Beach, Calif., and Hollywood on Sunday; Miami Beach
and South Beach on Monday and Tuesday; and Philadelphia on Wednesday.
A demonstration video of the product shows a quadcopter flying with a banner about 6 feet long suspended beneath it.
DroneCast
founder Raj Singh arrived in Las Vegas Wednesday and was making
arrangements for the first flights late in the afternoon.
It isn’t the first time companies have attempted to fly drones on the Strip.
In
May, Aerial Technology International and 360Hero flew an S800 drone
above Las Vegas Boulevard at 3:30 in the morning. A wide-angle camera
was flown and shot video during the 2014 International VR Panoramic
Photography Conference.
The Cosmopolitan also experimented with
bottle delivery by drone at its pool, but regulators asked hotel
management to shut down the service.
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