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UPS Airlines Airbus A300 N148UP taking off from San Jose International Airport

Drone Incidents

UPS Pilot Reported A Drone At 5,000 Feet. It Was A Bird.

A UPS crew told ATC they hit a drone or balloon at 5,000 feet. UPS confirmed a bird. Why drone is now the first word pilots reach for.

Haye KestelooSep 14

A dense flock of European starlings swirling against a purple dusk sky above a tower

Counter-Drone

NATO Jet Scrambled, Vilnius Airport Closed. It Was a Flock of Birds

A NATO jet scrambled and Vilnius airport shut for 38 minutes over a radar contact that turned out to be birds. Poland made the same call eight days ago.

Haye KestelooSep 13

eVTOL

Orlando Airport Greenlights eVTOL Pad, Awaits FAA Sign-Off

Orlando International Airport approved development of an eVTOL vertistop near its train station, putting demonstration air taxi flights within reach if the FAA signs off and construction stays on track.

Rafael SuárezJul 18

United Kingdom

Manna Hires Former DAA Chief Kenny Jacobs to Lead US and UK Push, One Month After Grounding Its Irish Fleet

Manna has appointed former DAA chief executive Kenny Jacobs as executive chairman and president, four weeks after the Irish drone delivery company grounded its home-market fleet and pointed its growth plans at the United States and the United Kingdom. The company said Jacobs arrives as it shifts focus to markets where regulation and local planning…

Haye KestelooJul 7

Department of Homeland Security

JetBlue Reported a Drone Strike at JFK. The Only Thing It Dented Was the Truth.

A JetBlue pilot approaching John F. Kennedy International Airport reported hitting a drone at roughly 3,000 feet on Monday, June 29, and within hours the story was everywhere: a plane, a drone, a collision over New York. Then the aircraft landed, mechanics inspected it, and they found no damage. None. No dented leading edge, no…

Haye KestelooJul 1

Bell

JFK’s Second “Drone” Of The Day Was A Red-And-White RC Plane, And The FAA Isn’t Chasing It

A Bell 407 helicopter near JFK reported a drone over Floyd Bennett Field. The pilot identified it as a model plane, and the FAA isn't investigating.

Haye KestelooJun 30

Potensic Atom 3 First Flight: New Sub-249 Gram Drone Flies Like A DJI Mini For A Lot Less Money

Aloft

JetBlue Pilot Reports Striking Drone at 3,000 Feet Over JFK, but No Damage and No Debris Yet

A JetBlue pilot told air traffic controllers his Airbus A321 collided with a drone at roughly 3,000 feet on final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport around 7:15 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 29. Flight 948 had flown overnight from Las Vegas and landed safely six minutes later at 7:21 a.m. A post-flight inspection…

Haye KestelooJun 29

Police

Western Star Maps Nevada Tungsten With Drone Magnetics

A junior mining company just used a drone to map a Nevada tungsten property that nobody had explored since the 1950s. Western Star Resources, trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange as WSR, said on June 22 it is running a high-resolution drone magnetic survey across the White Star Tungsten Project in the Charleston Mining District…

Rafael SuárezJun 23

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