HoverAir’s transforming modular drone has already been halted in the US

The HoverAir Versa. | Image: HoverAir

I americium truthful sorry, chap US gadget fans: the FCC's drone ban appears to person struck again. The HoverAir Versa - a babe steadycam with snap-on propeller wings that alteration it into a drone - has already stopped taking US orders conscionable 3 days after its Indiegogo debut, and whitethorn beryllium forced to wantonness shipping plans successful the US.

HoverAir is present telling backers it's lone shipping its camera to the US, not the portion that turns it into a drone, "due to a fewer remaining logistics updates with the Flight Kit." But those "logistics" whitethorn really beryllium a euphemism for "we've been banned by the national government." The FCC's database nary longer has an introduction for …

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