Second man charged with flying drone near pre-Super Bowl events
A second Florida man has been charged with violating national defense airspace as he was flying a drone near the pre-Super Bowl events on Saturday.
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Vincent Van Gogh drone light show breaks world record
A drone light show that depicted the life of Vincent Van Gogh broke the Guinness World Record for the longest animation performed by drones. The show counted 600 unmanned aircraft and lasted 26 minutes and 19 seconds.
Daily Drone News – Tuesday February 9, 2021
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Skydio about to deliver first batch of drones to US Army
Blue sUAS drone maker Skydio has been chosen by the US Army to continue in a final prototyping phase of its Skydio X2D drone. This should result in Skydio delivering the first batch of short-range reconnaissance drones to the US…
Kittyhawk launches B4UFLY desktop app for easier LAANC applications
Ever since Kittyhawk took over the development and management of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) B4UFLY app we have seen a steady flow of improvements that added new features to the app and made it easier to use. Now, Kittyhawk…
AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2021 will be held as hybrid event series
Last year the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) was a completely virtual event. This year the association will be holding a hybrid event series with an online-only event in the spring, to be followed by an in-person event…
Daily Drone News – Monday February 8, 2021
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DJI Go 4 app receives an update but no new features
The DJI Go 4 app received an update yesterday, bringing the app to version 4.3.42. Unsurprisingly, the app does not receive any new features and DJI only mentions that some crashing issues have been addressed and the overall app stability…
New ‘official’ photo of DJI FPV surfaces on Twitter
Just now a new seemingly ‘official’ photo of the soon-to-be-released DJI FPV drone surfaces on Twitter. The leaked photo appears to be from a promotional video of the new DJI, showing the fpv drone mid-flight with the DJI Goggles V2…
Daily Drone News – Friday February 5, 2021
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Goose hunting with drones results in crash with DJI Mavic
Check out this somewhat dramatic video in which you can see how someone uses a DJI Mavic drone to go goose hunting in Sweden. The maker of the video claims that the goose won and flew away after crashing into…
Daily Drone News – Thursday February 4, 2021
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