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.
Two people were trapped nearly 1,000 feet in the air in Texas. The rescue took four hours, a team of extraordinary firefighters, and one drone doing a job nobody talked about, as KLTV reports. 925 Feet Up and Nowhere to Go It started as a Saturday morning balloon flight in Gregg County, Texas. It ended…
A dog named Sweetie spent the night alone, injured, and hidden in a freezing retention pond. A drone found her in minutes. This is exactly why DFR programs exist, as Oregon Live reports. Sweetie’s Long Night in Happy Valley The call came in around noon on Friday. A dog had slipped through a fence near…
The Fukushima Prefectural Government expanded revitalization subsidies into six technology categories — drones and robotics among them
A Danish counter-drone company just planted its flag on American soil. MyDefence opened its U.S. manufacturing and innovation facility in Oklahoma City on February 26 — and the timing couldn’t be more deliberate, as Oklahoma Commerce reports. From Copenhagen to Oklahoma: Why This Move Matters Now The drone threat isn’t waiting for anyone’s supply chain…
Skydio just announced that its DFR Command software platform has crossed 10 million calls for service processed — making it the most
Royal Navy warship HMS Duncan just survived a drone swarm attack off the Welsh coast. Controlled chaos, live firing, and a training exercise that felt anything but fake. One Ship. Multiple Threats. Zero Excuses. QinetiQ’s Sharpshooter exercise doesn’t mess around. For four days off the coast of Wales at MOD Aberporth, HMS Duncan faced simultaneous…
An American Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton reconnaissance drone vanished from radar on February 22 while flying near Iran, adding a new layer of tension to an already volatile region. The aircraft, registration 169660 and call sign OVRLD1, had taken off from Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates and was operating over international…
At Fort Indiantown Gap, the quiet February air is buzzing, not with helicopters, but with something smaller, sharper, and far more personal: drones. For ten days, as the National Guard reports, soldiers from across different units and specialties gathered to attend a small unmanned aircraft system operator course, known in military shorthand as sUAS The…
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