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…
A disturbing new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has revealed the next frontier in police surveillance: drones equipped with automated license plate readers (ALPRs). Tech companies like Flock Safety are actively developing and pitching these systems to law…
In the heart of Pennsylvania’s farm country, a new kind of revolution is taking place, and it’s buzzing just above the cornfields. As Farm Progress let us know, three young men from the Amish community, a group known for its…
The modern battlefield has a new and terrifying sound: the persistent, quiet buzz of a smart drone overhead. For soldiers on the ground, it means they are being watched by an intelligent adversary, and an attack could come at any…
How do you make a major album release even bigger? If you’re superstar rapper Cardi B, you team up with Walmart and Wing to deliver signed copies of your new album to fans… by drone. And in the process, you…
In the world of counter-drone technology, the options have always been a trade-off. You can use a messy jammer, an expensive missile, or a risky net. Now, a Monaco-based company called MARSS has unveiled a brilliantly simple and brutally effective…