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.
When a wildfire tore through Mount Ogi in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, ground crews couldn’t reach it and helicopters stopped flying at dark. That’s when the drones went to work. Blue Innovation Co., Ltd. conducted nighttime aerial imaging flights over the burn area, filling the critical hours between sunset and the next morning’s helicopter operations, as…
Last time we covered the DJI Lito, the entire conversation rested on FCC filings and a single photo of a drone landing leg. The internet had theories. The leg had no comment. Now we have actual images of both drones, and the community has a lot more to argue about. The Images That Change the…
Warsaw watched what Iranian drones did to Ukrainian cities and decided it needed one of its own. The PLargonia is almost ready. A Delta-Wing Loitering Munition Built in Poland Poland’s Air Force Institute of Technology and Autonomous Systems Center, known as OSA, have jointly developed a loitering munition that looks remarkably familiar, as Next Gen…
A girl who went missing in the White River in Columbus, was recovered by Indiana Officers using divers, boats, and an underwater drone.
There are drone racing tournaments, and then there is this one. The final of Kyiv Drone Racing took place in a hangar at the National Aviation University Kyiv Aviation Institute, with more than 30 teams and roughly 100 participants competing on drones built by one of Ukraine’s most consequential defense technology companies, as The Defender…
Rosemount, Minnesota, is the latest American community to put a drone in the hands of its police department, and the numbers surrounding its launch say more about the broader trend than any single agency announcement. The Rosemount Police Department launched its Unmanned Aerial System program under a policy adopted January 1, 2026. Nine officers have…
Lucid Bots Drones just closed a $20 million Series B to keep up with demand it says it can’t fulfill fast enough. For a company that spent five years selling its first 100 robots, that’s a different kind of problem. The Charlotte, North Carolina company makes the Sherpa cleaning drone and the Lavo ground robot,…
Theme parks like Disney World across the U.S. spent years watching unauthorized drones buzz their crowds with essentially no legal way to stop them. That finally changed in December 2025, and the industry is still figuring out what it means, as reported by Facilities Dive. The Safer Skies Act, embedded in Sections 8601 through 8607…
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