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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.…
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to the Defense Policy Board on Monday, June 29, 2026, placing the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz on the advisory panel that counsels the Pentagon’s top civilian leadership on force structure, modernization, and national security strategy. Andreessen joins as one of thirteen members named alongside chair…
America now has roughly four registered drones for every registered crewed aircraft, and a public safety official is warning that the country has no agreed system for deciding which one moves out of the way. In a piece published June 24 in Homeland Security Today, Charles Werner, director of the DRONERESPONDERS Public Safety Alliance, laid…
Marques Brownlee, the YouTube reviewer known as MKBHD, has published a sponsored video on the Antigravity A1, the 8K 360 drone co-engineered by Insta360, and his verdict lands somewhere most sponsored content never goes: he spent most of the runtime selling the experience, then closed by naming two things he would change. Brownlee called the…
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