A small New Hampshire town just voted to buy its first police drone. The board that approved it also made sure nobody could fly it until the rules are written down. That is the right order of operations, as VNEWS…
In 1858, a French photographer tied a camera to a hot air balloon and took the first known aerial photograph just outside Paris. It was art. It was novelty. Nobody had any idea what they had just started. One hundred…
In 2024, land mines and unexploded ordnance killed 1,945 people and injured 4,325 more. Ninety percent were civilians. Nearly half were children. Demining crews removed 105,640 mines that same year. The math is brutal, and it isn’t close. The Oldest…
Oklahoma just showed the rest of the country what aerospace education leadership actually looks like. And it started with teachers. Two Days at OSU That Actually Matter On February 27 and 28, the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics teamed…
A man suspected of firing multiple rounds into a Medford apartment complex was arrested without incident Tuesday morning. A drone spotted him first. It’s a clean, quiet example of police drone work done exactly right. From Swing Lane to the…
Someone thought it would be a good idea to fly a campaign drone over voters waiting to cast their ballots in Houston. The drone community gets blamed for a lot. This one we can’t dodge. The Scene on West Gray…
The Gilroy City Council just approved its first Drone as First Responder program. The city gets the whole first year for free, as KSBW reported. That’s not a minor detail. That’s the kind of low-stakes entry point that gets hesitant…
One drone. 45 seconds to scene. A 2.5-mile beach packed with tens of thousands of people. Clearwater just made a smart bet, and the aircraft they chose says a lot about where American law enforcement is headed, as WTSP reports.…
DJI posted a teaser on its official X account yesterday. No product name. No specs. Just four words and a video that tells you everything. “An All-New Dimension” On March 3, the @DJIGlobal account posted a short video with a…
No shots fired. No physical confrontation. A deputy spoke through a drone from 200 yards away and a man with a gun laid down and surrendered. This is what de-escalation looks like in 2026. A Crisis Call on the West…
Oklahoma has a slow-motion wildfire crisis growing one tree at a time. Drones dropping herbicide pellets tree by tree may be the most cost-effective answer anyone has found yet, as reported by KOSU. The Tree That Is Eating Oklahoma Eastern…
A U.S. defense tech firm and a Norwegian startup just signed an agreement to put autonomous drone deployment on any military vehicle. The hardware is already proven. The question is how fast it can scale. Two Drones, One Box, Any…