Looking down from on high, the drone’s eye view is unflinchingly spare ... is Knockroon – Charles’s fabled vision of an ‘eco-village’ filled with sustainable homes built from stone ...

We began to move, navigating the terraces on the outskirts of a small village. An hour later ... because I wanted to be able to get a static view. Multi-rotor aircraft are also fast, very stable ...

No one lived in it anymore except for a small ... valley to join the team on a ridge overlooking the Great Temple. “We’re shooting stripes,” Jaskolski called out as the bug­like drone ...