Let’s talk about juice. Power juice. Advertised battery time is to drones what ISO performance is to cameras: the manufacturer will do everything it can to convince you its product can do more, even if they have to bend the…
How important is camera performance to you? Because—trust me—it’s the same camera on both drones, with the slight difference that the Air 3S has a 70mm zoom physical lens… mounted on what is essentially a Mini 4 Pro camera. You…
Since I ditched my DJI Air 2S and went all-in on the DJI Mini series, a lot of friends and customers have started asking me, “What happened to your big drone?” My answer is always the same: why would I…
Hello again, my dear pilots! I hope that by now you already have your hands on a beautiful new DJI Mini 5 Pro and are enjoying the pleasure of flying for 52 minutes on a single battery (unless you live…
Hey dear pilots! Good morning and a better start to this week! I’ve been flying for some time now with the lovely, gorgeous, and technically proficient DJI Mini 5 Pro, and I’d love to discuss some very important aspects of…
Hello fellow pilots! It’s been a little while. I’ve been heads-down, completely obsessed with my brand-new DJI Mini 5 Pro, and I’ve surfaced to talk about its best-kept secret: the amazing, mind-bending, rotating gimbal. When the Mini 5 Pro was…
DJI Mini 5 Pro. Let’s that sink in. Bliss. Pure bliss and joy. If I had to choose words for what I felt when I took off and looked at my screen, those would be the ones. The crispness of…
For every drone pilot who has watched a bird effortlessly glide on the wind and felt a pang of jealousy, this one’s for you. Researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University have unveiled RoboFalcon 2.0, a flapping-wing drone that so perfectly mimics…
For years, the number 249 has been a sacred, almost mythical figure in the drone world. It is the magic weight, in grams, that separates a “toy” from a “real” drone in the eyes of many regulators, allowing us to…
In what might be the most expensive and boneheaded drone flight of all time, a veteran of the video game industry has been sentenced to jail time and a staggering $156,000 fine for crashing his DJI Mini 3 Pro into…
The secretive and legendary Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, the same minds that brought us the F-117 Nighthawk and the F-35 Lightning, have just pulled the curtain back on their newest creation: a stealthy, autonomous combat drone called Vectis. Unveiled on…
The skies over Scandinavia fell silent. On Monday night, the bustling airports of Copenhagen and Oslo were turned into ghost towns, forced to shut down for hours after multiple sightings of large, unidentified drones in their restricted airspace. As Reuter…