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4 min read · Zipline · October 16, 2026

Zipline Turns 10: The Bouncy Castle Years Behind 3 Million Deliveries

Zipline marks 10 years since its first Rwanda flight with an origin film. The 51% maternal mortality figure it cites comes from a narrower study.

Haye Kesteloo Editor-in-Chief October 16, 2026

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MIL

Starshield Cap Hit Ukraine's Interceptors, Not Its Refinery Strikes

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MIL

SkyFall Sends Its $50,000 StarGate Medevac Drone to the Front Line

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Regulation

FCC Moves to Shut Out Chinese Labs, DroneSense Adds LAANC, DJI Dock 4

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DLVR

Portland Votes 11-0 Toward Drone Hub Pause as Amazon Cancels Meeting

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DJI

FCC Files Pentagon's Sealed DJI Letters, Says Ban Didn't Rely on Them

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FAA

nuWay Ag's Yoder Takes FAA Drone Suspension Over Deer and Sled Lifts

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FIRE

Missouri Fire Drone Caught a 200-Acre Blaze Jumping Its Line

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CBP Logged 37,000 Border Drone Flights In FY2026, Down From 42,000

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DJI

DJI Osmo Pocket 4P In Pearl White Launches October 20, US Gets A 404

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TECH

DeLorean Joins Flying-Car Racing in a Series That Says 'Remote Today'

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DJI Rumors and News Live Tracker

Pilot Institute host presenting the weekly drone news update for week 387, covering Chinese test labs, LAANC in DroneSense and the DJI Dock 4 and Matrice 5TD

Deep Dive · Pilot Institute

FCC Moves to Shut Out Chinese Labs, DroneSense Adds LAANC, DJI Dock 4

Greg Reverdiau: the FCC votes Oct. 29 to cut off Chinese test labs, DroneSense adds LAANC through Aloft, and DJI's Dock 4 swaps batteries in 25 seconds.

Greg Reverdiau · Oct 16 · 3 min read

A gray DJI Matrice 4 drone with a speaker module on top and a thermal camera gimbal, on a white display table at a trade show booth beside a second Matrice 4

FCC Ban

FCC Files Pentagon's Sealed DJI Letters, Says Ban Didn't Rely on Them

Haye Kesteloo · Oct 15

Gray DJI Matrice quadcopter with a gimbal camera underneath and a cylindrical radar unit on top, sitting on a concrete pad with green and red arm lights on

Firefighters

Missouri Fire Drone Caught a 200-Acre Blaze Jumping Its Line

Haye Kesteloo · Oct 15

White DJI Osmo Pocket 4P with its two stacked camera lenses held out toward the viewer by a woman in a white top, out of focus on a city street

TEASER

DJI Osmo Pocket 4P In Pearl White Launches October 20, US Gets A 404

Haye Kesteloo · Oct 15

Drones for Good

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Zipline Turns 10: The Bouncy Castle Years Behind 3 Million Deliveries

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Zipline

Missouri Fire Drone Caught a 200-Acre Blaze Jumping Its Line

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Firefighters

Upstate Medical's New Drone Port Is Already Cleared To Fly To Utica

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Drone Delivery

Pilot Institute

FCC Moves to Shut Out Chinese Labs, DroneSense Adds LAANC, DJI Dock 4

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Drone Service Providers

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DJI Neo 3 Unboxing Leak, 71,207-Drone Record, FAA $12M, FBI School

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Drone Policy, FAA, FCCPart 107 · Remote ID · TRUST · LAANC

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FAA Bans Drones Along Entire US-Mexico Border Until October 2027

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FAA

FCC Moves to Shut Out Chinese Labs, DroneSense Adds LAANC, DJI Dock 4

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Pilot Institute

FCC Files Pentagon's Sealed DJI Letters, Says Ban Didn't Rely on Them

Haye Kesteloo Oct 15

FCC Ban

Air Photography

DJI

DJI Osmo 360 II Beginners Guide: Getting Started With 360

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DJI

DJI Neo 2 After One Year: The Drone I Fly More Than Any Other

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DJI

DJI Lito X1 vs. Mini 5 Pro: Which Drone Should Beginners Buy?

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Drone Delivery

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Zipline Turns 10: The Bouncy Castle Years Behind 3 Million Deliveries

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Zipline

Portland Votes 11-0 Toward Drone Hub Pause as Amazon Cancels Meeting

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Amazon

Amazon's Westborough Drones Need Own FAA Review, Markey and Warren Say

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Amazon

51 Drones

Reviews

RayNeo GT Max Review: Flying a Mavic 4 Pro on a Truck-Sized Screen

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Blue sUAS

DHS Tested DJI Against Blue UAS and Hid the Scores. Why Weren't We Told?

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Industry

Drone Tariffs Hit September 3. Here's Why Prices Won't Jump 25% Overnight

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Police, DFRDFR · Patrol · Evidence

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Pilot Institute

DJI Dock 4 Swaps Batteries in 25 Seconds, but Its Specs Skip the FCC

Haye Kesteloo Oct 14

LAUNCH

Flock Bets on Police Drones as San Francisco Weighs Drone Limits

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Police

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Insta360

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DJI

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DJI

DJI Osmo Nano vs Action 6 vs Osmo 360: My Buyer's Guide to DJI's Action Cameras

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Counter Drone

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Department of Homeland Security

MI5 Chief: Iran Hasn't Shown the UK Drone Reach That Sent B-1s Home

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United Kingdom

DJI Neo 3 Unboxing Leak, 71,207-Drone Record, FAA $12M, FBI School

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Pilot Institute

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DJI

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Conflict Watch Ukraine · Russia · Battlefield UAS

Flat white Starshield satellite terminal on a black hard case beside a tan Humvee draped in camouflage netting on gravel ground

Deep Dive · Ukraine

Starshield Cap Hit Ukraine's Interceptors, Not Its Refinery Strikes

Reuters' sources say the Starshield cap that slowed Ukraine's interceptor drones came from the White House. Some drone makers already fly their own links.

Haye Kesteloo · Oct 16 · 4 min read

Black six-rotor StarGate drone flying low over a dry autumn field with an orange stretcher pod slung beneath its frame

Ukraine

SkyFall Sends Its $50,000 StarGate Medevac Drone to the Front Line

Haye Kesteloo · Oct 16

Soldiers in camouflage stand beside a green military utility vehicle on a dirt road along a tall steel border wall, with a gray quadcopter drone resting on the ground in the foreground.

Department of Homeland Security

CBP Logged 37,000 Border Drone Flights In FY2026, Down From 42,000

Haye Kesteloo · Oct 15

Nose and cockpit of a gray US Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber taxiing across a concrete flightline

United Kingdom

MI5 Chief: Iran Hasn't Shown the UK Drone Reach That Sent B-1s Home

Haye Kesteloo · Oct 13

FPV

All FPV →

Quadmovr Flies A 160 Gram 5-Inch Drone By Eye, No Camera, No GPS

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FPV

FPV Pilot Flies Kinzua Bridge, A Pennsylvania Park That Bans Drones

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FPV

Neros Wins $100M Pentagon Order, Plus 800 Drones Rivals Didn't Deliver

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Department of Defense

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Stop Color Grading Your DJI Pocket 4P Footage Wrong

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Video

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Insta360

These Insta360 Luna Ultra Settings Made My Footage Look More Cinematic

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DeLorean Joins Flying-Car Racing in a Series That Says 'Remote Today'

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eVTOL

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LAUNCH

Harmattan AI's 2,000 km Drone Doesn't Need GPS, and Morocco Wants It

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Europe

Wild Life, Nature

Wildlife

Drone Captures Humpback Whale Birth In a World First

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Drone Research

UH Drones Tag 22 Humpback Whales Off Maui Without Boats

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DJI

DJI Matrice 4 Series Drones Multiply German Fawn Rescues Twentyfold Before Mowing Season

Haye Kesteloo · Jul 1

Drone Industry, Research

All Industry →

Drone Pilots Who Don't Adapt Won't Last Two Years: A 90-Day Plan

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Drone Service Providers

Airlogix Seeks $100M At $2B Valuation As Russia Bombs Its Factories

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Defense Tech

FCC Vote Would Shut Out Chinese Labs That Test 82% of US Devices

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FCC Filing

From the Newsroom

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A soldier in camouflage stands on a concrete riverbank holding a drone controller as a white quadcopter hovers above tall grass, with an orange buoy barrier in the river behind him.

FAA Bans Drones Along Entire US-Mexico Border Until October 2027

Three FAA NOTAMs ban drones within one nautical mile of the US-Mexico border from Monday to October 2027. CBP approves only listed missions.

Haye Kesteloo Oct 16 4 min

FAA

Starshield Cap Hit Ukraine's Interceptors, Not Its Refinery Strikes

Reuters' sources say the Starshield cap that slowed Ukraine's interceptor drones came from the White House. Some drone makers already fly their own links.

Haye Kesteloo Oct 16 4 min

Ukraine

SkyFall Sends Its $50,000 StarGate Medevac Drone to the Front Line

SkyFall's StarGate medevac drone lifts 330 pounds and nets an attacking FPV. A Ukrainian unit now tests it where ground robots take hours.

Haye Kesteloo Oct 16 4 min

Ukraine

FCC Moves to Shut Out Chinese Labs, DroneSense Adds LAANC, DJI Dock 4

Greg Reverdiau: the FCC votes Oct. 29 to cut off Chinese test labs, DroneSense adds LAANC through Aloft, and DJI's Dock 4 swaps batteries in 25 seconds.

Greg Reverdiau Oct 16 3 min

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