DJI
Ex-DJI Executive Warns The FCC Drone Ban Buys American Makers Time, Nothing More
Michael Perry ran DJI's U.S. business for four years. Now building American robots, he says the FCC drone ban buys time and regulation is no moat.
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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Detroit DFR
Detroit Police Drone Grant Went To Washington Without City Council Approval
Detroit filed a $2.2 million DOJ grant application for a police drone as first responder program without City Council approval. Six members voted no, the city may withdraw it, and DPD still has no approved drone policy.
DJI
DJI Osmo Pocket 4 And 4P Are Both On Amazon In The US, At Prices DJI Never Set
The Pocket 4 sits at $689 and the 4P at $980 on Amazon US, above DJI's global pricing. What the listings and the seller ratings actually show.
Part 135
DoorDash Just Became An Airline, And The Video Shows A Bigger Drone Than It Will Admit
DoorDash earned FAA Part 135 certification and launched DoorDash Air. The company says aircraft details come later, but its own video already shows the airframe and the propulsion testing.
Flytrex
Flytrex Handed Order Routing To Nash, And The Drone Became One Lane Among Many
Flytrex integrated Nash's routing engine across all its Dallas-Fort Worth sites. Nash now decides which orders fly and which go to a human courier.
Drone Delivery
Wing Launches Walmart Drone Delivery In Orlando, Two Years After DroneUp Quit Florida
Wing opened its first Florida market with Walmart in Greater Orlando today, in a state where Walmart's previous drone delivery program shut down in 2024 when the economics stopped working.
Open Source
DJI Metadata Embedder Turns Your Flight Folders Into The Maps DJI Never Built
A security architect built a free, open-source tool that turns DJI telemetry into 3D flight maps, geotagged videos, and sun-position footage verification. Then he asked DroneXL what to build next.
School Safety
Pepper-Spray School Drones Go Live In Nine Schools Across Three States
Mithril Defense's Campus Guardian Angel drones arrive in nine schools in Florida, Georgia, and Colorado this fall, and Florida has already approved year-two funding before a single real-world activation.
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