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DJI will occupy Booth C6719 at the Las Vegas Convention Center when NAB Show 2026 opens April 19, showing off its Ronin and Osmo product lines to the broadcast industry for four days straight. The company confirmed its attendance in an April 17 press release and teased the booth on its official X account the…
The Federal Aviation Administration announced a new drone enforcement program on April 16, 2026, that offers first-time individual violators reduced civil penalties or shorter certificate suspensions in exchange for admitting liability and surrendering their right to appeal. The Drone Expedited and Targeted Enforcement Response program, known as DETER, was published in a press release the…
YouTube creator Flying Filmmaker has published a six-month verdict on the DJI Mini 5 Pro, and his conclusion is blunt: if a pilot wants the best sub-250g drone on the market, this is the one to buy. His review video runs through pros and cons after months of real flying, including four crashes that left…
British engineer Tom Stanton has built a 15.6 gram 3D printed plane powered by a single 10 farad supercapacitor, demonstrating a hand crank charging system that produces a 45 second flight from roughly 4 seconds of winding. The project, documented in a video published to his YouTube channel, reimagines the classic rubber band powered toy…
A British Columbia court has ordered Kelowna realtor Derek Leippi to pay a CAD $5,000 fine (roughly USD $3,600) for flying a DJI drone from a boat on Okanagan Lake during the 2023 McDougall Creek wildfire, an incident that pulled a helicopter pilot off fire suppression to chase the unmanned aircraft. PetaPixel reported the sentencing…
YouTube creator Cam Mackey argues the DJI Pocket 4 is blocked from US sale because of political money and Trump family drone investments, not security.
YouTuber Jeven Dovey flew both the DJI Avata 360 and the Antigravity A1 back to back and came away without a clean winner. His comparison video, published this week, pits the two 360-degree drones against each other on flight handling, camera output, controllers, software, and price. The takeaway is not the one most buyers expect:…
Adventure filmmaker Jeven Dovey destroyed a DJI Mavic 4 Pro on the second morning of a three-day overland shoot in California’s Eastern Sierras, flying in Sport mode with obstacle avoidance disabled when the drone hit a tree and tore the gimbal off the airframe. The crash, documented in a video published to his YouTube channel,…
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