What's Floating Around Cloud 9 This Week? 13 November 2017

Welcome to another week and we start with a fond farewell to Janet who is leaving us for pastures new this coming Friday. Janet has been an excellent member of our team and will be sadly missed, but the nature of the events industry is that people do tend to ebb and flow a little so we wish her well and our search for new talent continues!

In other news this week, its all a bit about Drones. The International Drone Awards are starting to gain some serious momentum and interest and we have just announced the first of our judges who are based in the States, Europe and the UK and we have some additional invitations outstanding too.

Additionally, last week we undertook a site visit for the World Super Drone championships which are being held in Nottingham next April, and there will be 24 international teams competing for a £25,000 prize for the best pilots.

Drone news has been pretty hard to escape just recently - if you book an Uber in  around 10 years’ time, you will probably get a car that drives itself. But then again, you may not be travelling in a car at all as the app is working on technology that would allow airborne passenger drones to fly short distances around cities.

After upending the taxi market with its ride-hailing service, Uber is now looking to the skies for its next venture - flying taxis.The firm has announced that it plans to deploy its flying taxis in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and Dubai by 2020.

Uber's flying taxis will be small, electric aircraft that take off and land vertically (VTOL) with zero emissions and quiet enough to operate in cities and flying taxis would cut down travel time between San Francisco's Marina to downtown San Jose to 15 minutes, compared with the more than two hours it takes by road, Uber has estimated.

Amazon’s delivery drones, currently being tested in Cambridgeshire, use a similar technology to cut down on noise and extend their range.

 

Additionally, with Christmas fast approaching, it seems that Drones will also top many a gift list this year. With drones now widely available now at high street stores such as Currys and Argos, many expect the leisurely use of the small aircraft to quite literally soar.

 

The boss of the recently opened drone arena says he wants to make drone racing as popular as football. UKDS Racing, in Nottingham, which launched last March, and with whom we are working here at Cloud 9, are hosting competitions and teaching children and adults how to fly drones.

The site, which is located next to Notts County's Meadow Lane stadium, will be reconfigured every month "to keep pilots on their toes" and the long term plan is to have a drone arena for each city and for people to be able to view drone racing from their homes.

 

With the World Super Drone event being filmed as part of a series, this could happen sooner rather than later! 

 

Have a great week.

 

 

 

  

What's Floating Around Cloud 9? 23 October 2017

Welcome to another week and if you detect a new tone to this week's blog, you are not wrong  - and it has nothing to do with the clocks changing at the weekend.

This week at C9 Towers we are are finding out just how amazing our Team is:

 

First and foremost, Carol, is our super sleuth, navigating her way through the catacomb payment system of a large medical organisation.  We have come to the conclusion that she could actually track down Lord Lucan, given the opportunity.   Not only that, she battled her way through the nightmare that is the M6 car park (Birmingham).  Not to be defeated by Hurricane Ophelia, Carol and John valiantly fought their way through Spaghetti Junction, Saharan dust and a red sun, and made it to the Accountants with 5 mins to spare, to deliver our annual accounts.

 

Secondly, Paula, where do we begin.  In the last few months Paula has embraced the World of Drones and is so immersed in the whole drone racing and international drone displays, that we feel she may take off any minute now!  Watch this space!  With awards, micro film festivals, virtual reality expo’s, aforesaid drone events – she has taken multi-tasking to unheard of levels and leaves us all in her wake, a little breathless.

 

Fiona, is looking after our Brand Ambassadors.  She has been interviewing and recruiting new members and we look forward to them coming onboard.  She has also been helping a major client with their marketing strategy and social media output.  

 

Josh – is doing a sterling job with certification and all manner of wonderful social media.  He has even managed to navigate the password book and knows where everything is.  His speed of light workrate is marvellous, but we are having a hard time keeping up with him.  Whizz Kid, is the correct word.

 

Zoe is very kindly helping us this week with databases, social media and special projects.  She has also managed to embrace the thousand and one password and logins we like to use at C9 towers.  I reckon we have more passwords and logins here than Google.

 

Janet, wrote the Blog, so cannot comment!  

 

Have a great week...