Drones and their uses.
Drones have lots of uses.
Sharifs office using a Draganflyer X6 drone
This is just one of the uses of drones. This picture is fro this article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/06/130606-drone-uav-surveillance-unmanned-domicopter-flight-civilian-helicopter/
What I found
In my research I have found that drones have many more uses than I thought such as finding buried avalanche survivors using real-time thermal cameras mounted to the bottoms of drones (Ortiz).
Some different types of drones
U.S. Military Predator Drone.
This is the big, scary kind of drone that you always see on TV, but in reality they're just as deadly as any other fighter jet but without the risk of loosing a pilot. (Picture from bing images)
MQ-27 Dragonfire drone.
The MQ-27 Dragonfire drone is a score streak from the extremely popular video game Call of Duty Black Ops 2. It shows the impact that drones have made. (Picture from bing images)
The Octocopter.
There are many different sizes and configurations of recreational drones, the Octocopter is one of the biggest, most expensive and most powerful. The one in the picture has a camera mounted to it. (Picture from bing images)
My BIG Question.
What are the most common uses for drones?
My big question was "what are the most common uses for drones?" And I have found that the answer is for photography and recreation. I didn't find this surprising as many weaponized drones are very expensive and as of now search and rescue drones are only in experimental stages. Two smaller questions I had were "why are some people afraid of drones?" And I found that it is because most people associat the word "drone" with automated flying killing machines (Dzieza). Another question I had was "how do drones rescue people?" And I found many results, one of which was that a drone could bring a defibrillator to a person having a heart attack (Ortiz).