By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University.
Have you ever wanted a birds-eye view? Wouldn’t it be great to have a viewpoint from up high, to enable us to see over a fence or in the middle of a field? Today we’ll meet an amazing company which is using robotic aircraft to provide that aerial view. The results are helping this remarkable company to grow in rural Kansas.
Bret Chilcott is the owner and founder of AgEagle LLC, a pioneering company in robotic aircraft. Bret grew up in rural Kansas, on a Cowley County farm near Udall, population 786 people. Now, that’s rural.
“Growing up, I got paid by my dad and our neighbors for working on the farm,” Bret said. “But I blew all my money on flying lessons and model airplanes.” Maybe that was a sign of things to come.
