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An NYPD drone fell out of the sky and caught fire in DUMBO on Tuesday night, June 23, coming down at 1 Water Street near the entrance to the FIFA World Cup Fan Zone in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The lithium-ion battery ignited on impact. Firefighters put it out. Nobody was hurt. But the aircraft dropped…
DJI has started publicly promoting a firmware change that lets its Matrice 4D Series fly compliant European beyond-visual-line-of-sight missions from a handheld controller instead of a fixed docking station. The company’s Enterprise arm laid out the details in a June 12 blog post and pushed it to a wider audience through an X thread on…
A Bavarian wildlife group that once pulled 10 to 15 fawns a year out of meadows before the mowers arrived now saves between 300 and 350, and the difference is a thermal camera in the sky. Rehkitz-Rettung Mangfalltal, a volunteer rescue organization operating in the Mangfall valley south of Munich, has folded the DJI Matrice…
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…
Secret Service counter-drone teams join the National Mall’s first-ever July 4 NSSE, backed by the same federal buildout funding World Cup security.
DJI has added a third camera to its O4 Air Unit lineup, and the headline number is the field of view. The new DJI O4 Wide Air Unit swaps the standard model’s 117.6-degree lens for a 159-degree ultra-wide one, giving FPV builders the immersive, edge-to-edge perspective they have been buying aftermarket lenses to get. The…
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.
Filmmaker Philip Bloom has flagged a serious image-quality fault in the Insta360 Luna Ultra that the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 simply does not share: when the Luna runs in any auto-ISO mode, it boosts the image with digital gain and then scrubs the resulting noise with heavy noise reduction, leaving footage that turns to mush.…
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