How did the use of male bees in the hive, i.e. drones, spread so much?

Uncle Hasan, sister Ayşe, what's up? Where are you going?

We decided to plant wheat and spray the lettuce.

Good, good... How can you do all this work on your own?

You know, Kocaoğlan, we will do it with him.

Is this the big boy, he is really big.

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It is so difficult to sow wheat on a huge land, isn't it?

In the past, they used to sprinkle it by hand. Nowadays there are huge agricultural machines.

But rice, for example, grows in wetlands and is very difficult to plant.

Such machines cannot enter places that we can almost call swamps. You will plant the rice seedlings one by one with your hand.

What if you could plant with a drone?

From the air, without going into water or anything like that.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could send the crop wherever you want and spread it easily with a remote control in your hand and the joystick on it?

How about spraying a huge field from the air without any hassle?

Wouldn't it be nice if uncle Hasan and sister Ayşe could cultivate a huge field together?

It is possible to do this today!

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There are now drones produced for agricultural purposes. Drone technology has already begun to be used in every branch of life, including agriculture.

Isn't it such an interesting thing, this four-propeller device called a drone?

You can move in any direction you want by changing the rotation speed of the propellers.

Moreover, they can even carry quite high weights.

When it completes its task, it automatically returns on its own.

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For some reason, no screenwriter had ever thought of such a device in old science fiction movies. In old movies, screenwriters often predicted that in the future there would be aircraft that could take off and land by directing their jet engines towards the ground.

Today, there are vehicles that can take off and land vertically, but drone technology is advancing much faster.

Simple four propellers and hop, you're flying. Moreover, the drone flights are quite stable.

They have even made drones that can be ridden and driven.

But unmanned, remote-controlled models are more popular these days.

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Who invented these quad-rotor drones?

When we say drone, we actually mean any remote-controlled flying device, especially unmanned aerial vehicles, but the ones I want to talk about more in this article are the ones with four propellers, also called quadcopters.

As far as I remember, the first drones with remote control and four propellers were first tested in a laboratory environment years ago.

I read the news somewhere years ago.

I think the first prototype made was in Japan, maybe it was in China, the news caught my attention.

It was either the late eighties or the early nineties. I may have been at university or started my working life during those years, I don't remember exactly, but history was somewhere in between when I read this news.

Then nothing was heard for many years, so I forgot about that news.

But look, now these four-rotor drones are everywhere.

The same thing happened to me with scooters called seagulls. I read a news story about scooters somewhere a long time ago.

If I had business intelligence, I could invest in these issues today and become rich.

Mine is just curiosity, I like to read interesting news when I see it, my mind is not trying to make commercial investments or anything like that.

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Actually, we say drone, but the word drone means "drone in the hive" in English. Another meaning is “bee buzz”. This term is also used in music.

I think they gave these devices this name because they make a sound like a bee buzzing when flying.

As they call it a piece of equipment in our country, the first people who made it called the device they made "buzz" in Turkish.

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I took a look at the internet and saw that the first ancestors of today's four-propeller drones, actually called quadcopters, were made by the Jacques brothers and Louis Breguet in France in 1907, and Nobel Prize-winning Professor Charles Richet also helped them.

Louis Braguet is a French industrialist, aircraft designer and pilot.

During the war years, he built many planes for the allied forces in his own aircraft factory and played a major role in the victory of the war by the allied forces.

Of course, the quadcopter they built with the Jacques brothers could not be remote controlled. That's why I don't know how accurate it is to call what they do a drone. At that time, the remote control mechanism was not yet known.

In fact, what they made is not a toy like today's drones.

They named the vehicle they built Gydroplane 1, and in the first attempt on September 29, 1907, with a pilot on it and one person on each side holding it for control, this vehicle was able to take off to a height of 60 cm from the ground.

In fact, it went out of control and was thrown up to a height of 1.5 meters.

Professor Charles Richet is actually the person who first came up with the idea of unmanned aerial vehicles, but unfortunately he could not realize this idea due to the impossibilities of those days.

But this idea made him the father of the drones made today.

The Jacques brothers and Louis Breguet later made many successful experiments and launched a Renault brand.

They call their four-propeller vehicle, powered by a car engine, Gydroplane 2.

Unfortunately, Breguet Aviation company goes bankrupt and closes down due to its factories being destroyed in a storm.

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In the following years, studies on remote-controlled unmanned aircraft will increase, I mean unmanned drones similar to the single-propeller aircraft we know, and winged and remote-controlled rocket systems launched from a launcher, known today as kamikaze drones, will be developed.

On the other hand, helicopters as we know them, whose first idea was based on Leonardo Da Vinci, will be built.

But for some reason, these four-propeller quadcopters will never come to mind.

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Years later, in 2006, the first commercial drones begin to appear.

French drone company Parrot launched the first wi-fi controlled drone with a mobile phone mounted on it in 2010.

After 2010, there will be a boom in the drone market.

Many drone companies emerged and the drone world continues to this day.

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Yes, today, these four-propeller drones have come into use for military purposes, and many companies have put drones into use for civilian purposes.

Even Amazon company now distributes products in some places via these drones.

From filming, to being flown for observation purposes for forest fires, and even for speed control on the roads, police officers hide behind a hill and use drones to detect speed from the air.

In short, drones have entered our lives in many areas.

We even recorded the status of the construction site from the air with the help of a drone at one of our construction sites and reported it to our employer.

Today, shooting from above with small drones, usually of the toy type, has become almost ordinary.

Even at concerts, drone footage is taken. A drone flying over the crowd takes beautiful shots of the concert.

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Although, as far as I know, it is required to obtain a special permit to fly a drone in the air.

I remember that we had received permission from a government agency to shoot at the construction site.

I don't know where to get this permission in Turkey, it's probably from the civil aviation authority or something.

However, drones, which have already been used in agriculture, seem to be a much larger part of our lives in the future.

Perhaps we will even take flying taxis of the drone type in the future. In the future, all vehicles will probably use artificial intelligence. I think the driver profession will be abandoned in the future.

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I remember from a movie, the hero of the movie was controlling the corridors in front of him by releasing drones on the clothes he was wearing.

It is not talked about much these days, but the virtual world was on the agenda for a while.

People even bought land from the virtual world.

Maybe in the future, we will have a world that is a mixture of real life and the virtual world by wearing something like virtual world glasses, and drones will be our additional eyes with which to observe the future, just like in that movie I watched.

At this rate, anything seems possible in the future.

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Today, I do not know when Uncle Hasan and Sister Ayşe will start using drones in agriculture in Turkey.

I can only say that remote controlled drones are now being used in agriculture around the world.

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One last thing on this subject, this word "drone" really gets on my nerves, let's call it "buzz" like the first ones who found it, what do you say?

I think a future full of "Buzz" awaits us in the future. I would say that we should not fall too far behind in technology. If the current laws are not sufficient, let's make the necessary legal regulations now and make the necessary investments in buzz production ourselves.

With love and respect to everyone from Moscow.