{"id":14074,"date":"2020-09-11T04:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/cranfield-airport-deploys-drones-to-inspect-runway\/"},"modified":"2020-09-11T04:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T03:32:00","slug":"cranfield-airport-deploys-drones-to-inspect-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=14074","title":{"rendered":"Cranfield Airport Deploys Drones to Inspect Runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used to inspect the runway at Cranfield Airport remotely for the first time.  The flights make use of \u2018drone-in-a-box\u2019 technology with the aim of enabling routine inspections to take place with UAVs that can be automatically deployed, recovered and recharged without the need for an on-site pilot.\n<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>\nIn the future, drones could be used to inspect other areas such as perimeter fences and take place regularly \u2013 for example, in the morning before the Airport opens&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used to inspect the runway at Cranfield Airport remotely for the first time. The flights make use of \u2018drone-in-a-box\u2019 technology with the aim of enabling routine inspections to take place with UAVs that can be automatically deployed, recovered and recharged without the need for an on-site pilot. In the future, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}