Haye Kesteloo

Haye Kesteloo is the Editor in Chief and Founder of DroneXL.co, where he covers all drone-related news, DJI rumors and writes drone reviews, and of EVXL.co, for all electric vehicle news. Haye can be reached at haye @ dronexl.co or @hayekesteloo. Also on LinkedIn, Muck Rack, Instagram and YouTube.

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Night view of the DJI and Hasselblad store front in Tokyo, a lit DJI | Hasselblad sign under a glass-walled second floor, with a wet sidewalk in front

DJI Store

DJI's First Japan Concept Store Opens With Gear the US Never Got

DJI and Hasselblad open a two-floor concept store in Tokyo's Omotesando on October 31, with a flight cage and Mavic 4 Pro and Osmo Pocket 4P posters.

Haye KestelooOct 30

Six people holding a yellow Wisk ribbon on a vertiport landing pad, two of them cutting it with gold scissors, in front of a yellow Wisk air taxi

eVTOL

Wisk Opens Its Hollister Vertiport as the FAA Rewrites Pad Rules

Wisk opened its 100-foot Hollister vertiport on October 29, a week after the FAA posted a draft standard that would replace the one it used.

Haye KestelooOct 30

DJI Matrice 5TD drone seen from below in flight beside a steel transmission tower against a blue sky

EXPLAINER

DJI's 1280 Thermal Drones Skip the US. Economists Saw This Coming

DJI's Matrice 5TD and a November 5 folding thermal drone can't be sold in the US. Research says the ban removes US drone makers' reason to improve.

Haye KestelooOct 30

Front view of a dark gray DJI drone gimbal with a large telephoto lens top left, a round thermal lens with a greenish coating below it, and three smaller camera windows stacked on the right, on a drone with folding arms

TEASER

DJI Teases a Folding Thermal Drone for November 5 With the 5TD Gimbal

DJI Enterprise's November 5 teaser opens on a thermal sensor and shows the Matrice 5TD's gimbal under a drone with folding arms. The 5TD doesn't fold.

Haye KestelooOct 29

Close-up of the black DJI Osmo Pocket 4P gimbal head, its 3x telephoto lens beside a second lens marked 1-inch, against a dark background

REVIEW

DJI Pocket 4P at 100 Days: A US Owner's eBay Unit Has No US Warranty

A US filmmaker calls the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P a go-to camera after 100 days. Bought on eBay, it falls outside DJI's North America warranty rule.

Haye KestelooOct 29

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in a dark suit speaks into a microphone from an armchair on a stage lined with American flags while a moderator reads her notes

POLICY

AUVSI Gives the FCC as Many Speakers as the FAA at Its DC Drone Forum

AUVSI's Nov. 9-10 symposium lists four FCC officials, enforcement chief Hunter Deeley among them, and four from the FAA, with Part 108 still unpublished.

Haye KestelooOct 29

White fixed-wing drone marked Rantizo 100M on a launch rail, propeller spinning, a camera turret under its nose, orchards and mountains behind

Industry

Rantizo Prototype Pairs GPS With LORAN, Which the US Shut Off in 2010

Two weeks after its Nasdaq debut, Rantizo unveiled a surveillance drone prototype with two range targets and GPS/LORAN navigation.

Haye KestelooOct 29

Close-up of a gray Skydio X10 drone in flight, its square camera module with three lenses facing the viewer, trees and rocks blurred behind it

FCC Filing

FCC Opens 800 MHz to Drones, but BVLOS Still Waits on FAA Part 108

The FCC voted 3-0 to end a 1991 airborne ban and open 50 MHz of 800 MHz cellular spectrum to drones. The FAA's Part 108 BVLOS rule is due December 7.

Haye KestelooOct 29

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