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How to Fly Your Drone Safely Over Water: Settings, Prep, and Emergency Tips
Water makes for stunning footage, but it’s also one of the easiest places to, well, lose your drone. In this article, I’m going to show you how to fly safely and with confidence over water. You want those stunning ocean…
Solar Impulse 2 Crashes Into Gulf After Skydweller Conversion
The aircraft that once made aviation history by circumnavigating the globe on sunlight alone is now at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Solar Impulse 2, the record-setting solar plane built by Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, crashed during…
China’s Hydrogen Fuel Cell Could Triple Industrial Drone Flight Time
China just moved a hydrogen fuel cell system for drones from the lab to the field. Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, completed a successful demonstration flight and passed a national…
Oklahoma City Drone Finds Armed Suspect, Robot Ends Standoff
Oklahoma City police handled a potentially deadly standoff last month without a single injury using two tools that are becoming standard equipment in modern patrol operations: a drone and a tactical robot, as reported by Officer. The April 8 incident…
Army’s Bumblebee V1 Turns a Drone Into a Drone Killer
The U.S. Army has a new answer to the drone threat, and it involves sending a drone to take care of it. Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division recently trained with the Bumblebee V1 counter-drone system at Fort Drum, New…
NATO Tests Flowcopter MEDEVAC Drone in Poland Exercise
American and Polish forces tested a gas-powered heavy-lift drone for battlefield casualty evacuation during Sabre Strike 2026 in Poland earlier this month, as METRO reported. The exercise marks one of the most visible NATO evaluations yet of autonomous unmanned systems…
Knightwerx Leaves California, Plants Flag in Scottsdale
Another defense tech company has made the call on California. Knightwerx, a tactical drone developer that built its name making compact military UAS, has moved its headquarters from Camarillo to Scottsdale, and it’s already hiring, as Hoodline reported. The move…
DJI SkyPixel 2026: The Best Drone Photos on the Planet
DJI just announced the winners of the 11th Annual SkyPixel Photo and Video Contest, and if you were feeling reasonably good about your drone footage, I’d recommend not scrolling too far. The competition drew nearly 95,000 submissions from 96 countries,…
Detroit Startup Birdstop Deploys Drones to Solve Truck Parking Crisis
A Detroit-based drone company just turned a very mundane problem into a surprisingly sophisticated aerospace application. Birdstop has deployed autonomous drones at two commercial truck parking sites in Detroit, using AI and computer vision to give drivers real-time visibility into…
Navy Tests Drone Kill Chain Against Caribbean Narco Boats
The U.S. Navy just ran a live exercise off Key West testing whether drones and AI can find, track, and engage suspected drug trafficking vessels in real time, as reported by the US Naval Institute. The exercise wasn’t a concept…
The DJI Flip Is Ugly. Buy It Anyway.
Let’s get one thing out of the way immediately: the DJI Flip is not a pretty drone. It looks like someone strapped a camera to a tiny bicycle and called it a day. I’ve stared at it from multiple angles…
South Carolina Moves to Criminalize Prison Drone Drops
South Carolina lawmakers are closing a gap that’s been frustrating law enforcement for years. A bill dubbed the South Carolina Drone Regulation and Public Safety Act cleared a Senate committee unanimously this week, following a unanimous House vote last month,…
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