Newquay is served by Newquay Cornwall Airport (NQY) , six miles north of the city centre. Direct flights are available from London and most other major cities within the UK, with low-cost airlines offering most of the flights.
The unit cost for one Predator is about $4.5 million, according to DHS estimates. But the costs of operating a UAV can become more than double the costs of operating a manned aircraft, said the Congressional Research Service (CRS) last summer.(See Homeland Security: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Border Surveillance.).ased on that figure, keeping one UAV in the air every hour of the year would cost about $28.5 million. Homeland Security Todayâs Mickey McCarter has written the most thorough piece on SBInet that I have seen in the past several years.
Still, DJI (and Parrot) have created relatively inexpensive drones that can be flown by anyone and require little training to get up in the air. While the Phantom's $675 price point still makes it a luxury item, it beats paying $5,000 for a small UAV.