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DroneBoy’s Own Tom Comet on the Going Again Podcast

Jun 29th, 2023

Do you want to learn more about the backstory of our founder and Lead Pilot, Tom Comet?  Check out the interview on the Going Again Podcast where we take a deep dive with our good friends, the amazing father and… read more »

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Look Up With Skyview!

Apr 22nd, 2021

Written By | Tom Comet One of the lesser known “super powers” that our fleet of Heavy Lift drones is capable of is known as Skyview.  Just like the name implies, Skyview allows us to “look UP” with the camera… read more »

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Drones Live Stream CN Tower Lightshow On Canada Day During Covid-19 Lockdown

Jul 8th, 2020

Written 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… read more »

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Aerial Video Capture of the Highest Building in Canada (that doesn’t exist yet)

Jun 5th, 2020

Written By  |  Tom Comet How do you sell something that doesn’t even exist yet?  Especially when that “something” is going to be the tallest, super exclusive condo tower being built in Canada with units selling for millions of dollars. … read more »

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Porsche Macan Mission Report

Jun 7th, 2019

Written By  |  Tom Comet Here is a very quick video Mission Report and some photos from a recent shoot we did where we had the awesome opportunity to chase some brand new Porche Macan’s around.  Not a bad way… read more »

The Dawn of Canada’s New Drone Regulations!

Jun 3rd, 2019

By  |  Stefan Marchand Since Transport Canada originally announced the new RPAS (Drone) regulations in January, we have been providing updates on these regulations as well as sharing with you how we at DroneBoy are progressing to ensure we are… read more »

Subaru Crosstrek – A Commercial With Staying Power

Mar 11th, 2019

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 »

Flying Drones at the Airport

Apr 16th, 2018

Written by | Tom Comet We get this call all the time – “I need to do a drone project and I want to use you guys but we are two miles from the airport so we are going to have… read more »

The Administration Side Of A Drone Job

Feb 27th, 2018

Most people don’t realize how much behind the scenes work goes into a successful drone operation.  Things like flight planning, insurance certificates, client education as well as our own internal documentation are just some of the many important steps involved… read more »

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DroneBoy Has An Airplane!

Jan 17th, 2018

Written by | Tom Comet A drone company with their own airplane??  It sounds a little crazy so allow me to explain this awesome situation… The nature of our drone business is extremely diverse.  This is one of the things that… read more »

Flying Drones in the Cold

Jan 4th, 2018

Written by | Tom Comet Over the Christmas break we traveled up to northern Ontario and, as always, I took some drones along for the festivities.  While we were enjoying the holidays the temperature dropped as low -36C and I actually… read more »

A Drone Pilot Becomes An Airplane Pilot

Dec 13th, 2017

Written by | Tom Comet   Years ago when I started doing my initial drone ground school training to become a legal, certified UAV operator I was amazed at the amount of information and detail that I was expected to learn… read more »