A drone firm specialising in the oil and gas industry has been boosted by venture capital investment worth more than £2.5million.
Sky-Futures, which is opening a new, larger office in Aberdeen on Monday, has also been backed by a US fund specialising in drone technology.
The firm was founded in 2009 by James Harrison and Chris Blackford who operated drones in Iraq and Afghanistan while in the British Army.
A series of mysterious drone flights over French nuclear reactors recently is exposing a security threat that has authorities scrambling.
There have been more than a dozen sightings so far, including one this week, of small unmanned aircraft. They haven’t inflicted damage nor has anyone publicly claimed responsibility, according to atomic operators and French ministers.
In spite of government assurances that a probe is underway, the flights have been going on for more than a month.
