By Tom Comet Ever since I first got involved in drones nearly a decade ago operations directly over the public have not been allowed. Even now, with the 2019 regulation rewrite we have only been able to get as close… read more »
By Tom Comet It is not every day that we get to say that we achieved a world’s first but this is definitely one of those times. On August 18th, 2020 the DroneBoy Team flew the first ever 100% legal… read more »
By Tom Comet In the eight years that I have been working with drones for filming I have seen huge changes as the technology improves, becomes smaller, lighter, less expensive and all around easier to work with. All of this… read more »
By Tom Comet The DroneBoy Team is proud to have been chosen as the aerial video provider for the recent live stream of the spectacular Canada Day lightshow at the CN Tower. As you probably know all too well, Canadians… read more »
By Tom Comet Looking back over the past few years I see a dramatic increase in the quantity of high end film and TV work that me and my DroneBoy Team get asked to participate in. This is great news… read more »
By Tom Comet During our recent expedition flying and filming with drones in Nepal our Team was challenged on a lot of different levels. I discussed the physics of flying at extremely high altitude in a previous BLOG post. In… read more »
By Tom Comet DroneBoy recently had the fantastic opportunity to be part of a large-scale documentary project where we provided all the aerial cinematography, Ops Team, equipment and drone services for a very high altitude, big-screen film project shooting in… read more »
DroneBoy is very excited to announce that we have added the all new Freefly ALTA X to our Ultra Heavy Lift (UHL) Drone fleet. This unique and extremely capable machine enables us to fly up to 35lbs payloads at speeds… read more »
Written By | Tom Comet When I have lunch in one of those restaurants with all the TVs on the wall I will usually see 2-3 car commercials that the DroneBoy Team have been involved in before I finish my… read more »
Written by | Tom Comet Every year the DroneBoy team works on at least couple dozen car commercials. Drone based aerial cinematography has become an absolute necessity for many genres but nowhere is this more prevalent than in car commercials. The… read more »
Written by | Tom Comet Last summer the DroneBoy team had a fantastic opportunity when we were asked to develop and implement a live Drone Delivery stunt for McDonalds in Montreal Quebec. The big idea was to create a media event where… read more »
Written by | Tom Comet In our never-ending pursuit to be the very best drone based aerial cinematography provider that we can be DroneBoy is constantly investing in both the equipment and training sides of what we do. My team have… read more »