Deal
DJI Mini 5 Pro Drops To $683 As The FCC Targets Its LiDAR Sensor
The DJI Mini 5 Pro is $683 at Amazon. Its LiDAR sits inside the FCC category that closes September 2, and a 25% drone tariff lands September 3.
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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eVTOL
Wisk Builds Hollister Vertiport to Write FAA Rules That Don't Exist Yet
Wisk broke ground on a 100-foot test vertiport at a California airport. The FAA has had no vertiport design circular since 2010.
Delta
US Army Can't Match Ukraine's Delta Drone Software, Secretary Says
Ukraine's Delta software cut its kill chain to minutes. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told the Senate the fault for falling behind was his own.
DJI
DJI Opens Heritage 3D Contest. US National Parks Are Off-Limits.
DJI Enterprise's World Heritage 3D contest runs to October 10. It suggests national parks as subjects. In the US, those are the illegal ones.
DJI Rumors
DJI Sets September 3 Osmo 360 II Launch, No US Price Announced
DJI's 15-second teaser dates the Osmo 360 II for September 3 at 7 AM EDT, three weeks after a China-only launch that skipped an American price.
State Law
Washington Commercial Drone Fees Jump 10x to $150 After Jet Tax Repeal
Washington will charge commercial drone operators $150 per aircraft a year from January 2027, up from $15, in the bill that repealed its luxury jet tax.
Osmo Action 6
DJI Osmo Action 6 Rides LandSpace Rocket From Liftoff to Landing
DJI strapped its Osmo Action 6 to LandSpace's Zhuque-3 booster and published the full uncut ride, from ignition to a vertical landing in northwest China.
Technology
Rainmaker Says Its Drones Made 143M Gallons of Rain. Florida Calls Cloud Seeding a Felony
Western states are spending millions on cloud seeding. The one drone operator in the boom faces two state felony bans and a stalled FAA flare petition.
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