Spanish lifeguard organization, Emerlan posted the following video on Facebook. The video shows how a drone points lifeguards to a swimmer in distress off the Famara Beach in Lanzarote, Spain.
In an exciting news release today, Walmarts announces that it has teamed up with Zipline to deliver packages in a way that is convenient, fast, and safe, i.e. delivery by drone. Zipline was recently approved to start testing its drone…
The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA), the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), and Google’s drone delivery company, Wing, sent a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) urging the government agency to consider making…
DJI updated the DJI Fly app over the weekend. The latest update brings the app to version 1.1.8 and it now shows the remaining storage space left on your MicroSD card either in GB’s or in recording-time-left. Update: DJI just…
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Check out the Made-in-USA PRISM drone from Maryland-based Watts Innovations. Arguably the most versatile quadcopter, or should I say co-axial hexacopter, currently available for pre-order.
The updated DS30 drone with Pixhawk Flight Controller has been released by Doosan. This new unmanned aircraft is powered by a long endurance hydrogen fuel cell and as a result, offers two hours of flight time which is much longer…
A surveillance drone assisted multiple law enforcement agencies in catching a burglary suspect in Wichita County, Texas.
Two men have been arrested after trying to fly contraband into the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, Mississippi with a DJI Phantom 3 drone.
DroneXL already covered the main part of this news yesterday, but I think it is important to highlight the findings from FTI. The cybersecurity firm FTI Consulting analyzed DJI’s data sharing, or more accurately the lack thereof, and concluded that…
Here are today’s most important drone news articles. We publish this post every weekday at 5:30 p.m. Some of these stories are from DroneXL.co and some of them will be from other sources. If you’d like to receive this in an…
Drone footage shows orange skies over San Francisco and Bay Area that resulted from form the thick wildfire smoke that blocks the sunlight.