Rafael Suárez is a drone journalist and content creator with more than 20 years behind the lens. He began in film photography in 1998, moved to digital in 2005, and has been flying and filming with drones since 2016. As a commercial videographer he has produced work for premium brands including BMW, Porsche, and MINI, and his documentary work champions a #flysafe mentality across the industry. Based in Quito, Ecuador, he covers drone news, hardware, and the policy and business shaping the industry for DroneXL, and shares reviews and cinematic flight on his YouTube channel. A dad and a lifelong aviation nerd, he's happiest when something is in the air.
Germany's Helsing is bringing HX-2 strike-drone production to Martinsburg, West Virginia, with a $50 million plant designed to build more than 2,000 loitering munitions a month for the U.S. market.
A Placer County Sheriff's drone searched inside a barn full of hay bales, located a domestic violence suspect wedged into the stack, and ended the standoff without deputies climbing blindly into a dangerous hiding place.
A Metro Nashville police Skydio drone watched a robbery unfold in real time, guided officers to two arrests, then stayed airborne long enough to locate the discarded boxcutter that underpins the aggravated robbery case.
DJI's Mic 3 two-transmitter kit has dropped to $219 at Amazon and B&H Photo, the lowest price DroneXL has tracked since launch and a notable discount on a current-generation creator-audio product that rarely gets meaningful cuts.
South West London Pathology is now flying NHS patient samples by Wing drone between Raynes Park and St George's Hospital, turning a 20-minute road courier run into a flight of just over three minutes for a network that serves up to 1.8 million people.
Cleveland Clinic will fly prescription medications to patients' homes this summer using Zipline drones from its Beachwood campus, serving a 5-mile radius at no extra cost.
TUM researchers flew an autonomous drone and laser system over Sicily's Vulcano island, mapping volcanic gas with roughly 5% error to help forecast eruptions without risking a volcanologist's life.
Drone detection systems flagged unauthorized aircraft over the Great State of Maine Air Show as the Blue Angels, RAF Red Arrows, and an F-35 team performed; police warned rogue pilots will be arrested.
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