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The FAA's mobile no-fly zones around ICE and CBP vehicles prevent aerial journalism of immigration enforcement, press groups warn. The NPPA calls it worse than the Chicago TFR.
YouTuber Danny McGee has been flying the DJI Mini 5 Pro for months before its official announcement. His verdict: this drone pushes the Mini lineup further than most people expected, and he considers it the number one recommendation for anyone entering the drone space today. McGee’s video review breaks down the 10 most important things…
Australian aerospace engineer Benjamin Biggs and the Drone Pro Hub team are back. Weeks after Luke Maximo Bell reclaimed the Guinness World Record for fastest drone with his Peregreen V4 at 657.59 km/h (408.6 mph), Biggs took his upgraded Blackbird to the Australian outback and hit a peak GPS speed of 690 km/h (428.8 mph)…
Most DJI Osmo Action 6 owners press record, leave everything on auto, and wonder why their footage looks flat compared to what they see on YouTube. Cape Town-based cycling YouTuber Gerrit Knein just published a DJI-sponsored breakdown explaining exactly why, and the fix comes down to one exposure setting that most people never touch. The…
The FIA World Rally Championship YouTube channel dropped a video titled “INSANE Rally Drone Footage,” and for once, the title isn’t clickbait. An FPV drone chases a World Rally Car through a desert stage at full speed, and it keeps up. Not for a few seconds. Not for a single corner. Mile after mile after…
The Washington Post published a comprehensive investigation this week into ICE’s rapidly expanding surveillance technology arsenal, and the drone angle is something every pilot in this country needs to understand. Buried within the details of facial recognition apps, phone-hacking spyware, and cell-site simulators is a quiet but aggressive expansion of federal drone operations, paired with…
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford traveled to Dublin last week to meet with Manna drone delivery founder Bobby Healy at the company’s headquarters. The visit, which also included Avtrain CEO Julie Garland and representatives from the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), centered on how European and US regulatory frameworks can work together to scale drone delivery operations.…
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) just received a $2 million SMART (Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to build out a drone-based medical delivery network across its 10,923-square-mile reservation in southeastern Oklahoma. The announcement came alongside a live demonstration at the Atoka Health Clinic, where airborne drone
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