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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An XTEND multirotor drone in flight with a multi-sensor payload mounted under the airframe

Department of Defense

XTEND Hits the NYSE Friday Before the Pentagon Scores It

XTEND AI Robotics starts trading on the NYSE as XTND on September 4. The Pentagon has not yet scored the Gauntlet II contest the valuation rests on.

Haye KestelooSep 1

A WB Electronics FlyEye fixed-wing reconnaissance drone suspended above a WB Group trade-show stand, gimbal camera under the nose.

Poland Plant Fire

Poland Probes Sabotage After Fire At Drone Plant Supplying Ukraine

A figure on camera, a fire at 12:23 a.m., and Poland's ABW at the plant that builds drone parts for Kyiv and Warsaw.

Haye KestelooAug 31

SwissDrones staff in red company shirts pose in rows behind a red and white SDO 50 unmanned helicopter inside the hangar at the company facility in Buchs, Switzerland

Industry

SwissDrones CEO Exits On LinkedIn As Leadership Splits Three Ways

Ulrich Amberg is stepping down as SwissDrones CEO after six years, and the company is dividing his job among three executives as it pushes into the US.

Haye KestelooAug 31

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's former defense minister, photographed against a dark blue backdrop

Defense Tech

Fedorov Offers The US A Drone Fleet For Patriot Missiles

Ukraine's ousted defense minister is in Washington offering drone help for Patriot interceptors, days after taking an unpaid advisory job in Rome.

Haye KestelooAug 31

Delivery

Cleveland Clinic's Drone Pharmacy Runs 20 Deliveries A Week

Cleveland Clinic's Zipline prescription drone service is flying about 20 deliveries a week from four aircraft in Beachwood, with charging room for 12.

Haye KestelooAug 31

A Quantum Systems Vector eVTOL reconnaissance drone staged in the field with Quantum Systems branding behind it.

Industry

Quantum Systems Says CIA-Backed Fund Opened Its US Doors

Co-CEO Sven Kruck says In-Q-Tel and other US investors opened Washington doors, helping the German drone maker land CIA and FBI work.

Haye KestelooAug 31

Skyrover S1 drone unfolded on a rock beside its white remote controller and retail box, with a stone bridge behind

Deal

Skyrover S1 Drops to $236 as the FCC Moves to Halt Its Sales

The Skyrover S1 is $236 at Amazon, its lowest price yet. The FCC's proposed sales ban lists the S1's own FCC ID, and comments close August 31.

Haye KestelooAug 30

Drone camera view of a lost dog and a search dog meeting in deep snow in northern New York during a thermal drone pet search.

Drones For Good

FCC Wants To Ban The Lost-Pet Drone CBS News Just Celebrated

CBS Evening News showed a $17,000 thermal drone finding lost dogs in Mission Viejo. The FCC wants that drone class off the market. Comments close Sept 2.

Haye KestelooAug 30

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