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.
Australia just pulled the curtain on a 1.4 billion of australian dollars ($933 million) contract with Boeing Defence Australia for just six operational Ghost Bat drones, a move that feels like the country finally pressed the fast forward button on its defense plans, as Reuters reported. The timing was no accident. Australian officials revealed the…
JLR has rolled out an ambitious drone trial at its Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton, where the Elios 3 from Flyability sliced a four hour inspection routine down to ten minutes, a time collapse so extreme it feels almost cartoonish until you realize it is simply the inevitable direction of factory automation, as Jaguar…
Prosecutors say the drone squirmed across the No Drone Zone despite every warning the FAA, common sense, and even the drone’s own control
South Carolina corrections officers intercepted what might be the strangest holiday dinner delivery ever attempted, a drone-powered gourmet contraband drop that looked like someone tried to recreate a Food Network episode with the budget of a middle school bake sale, as FOX News reported. The bundle included raw steak, bagged crab legs, Old Bay seasoning,…
Autel built the platform on a new computing architecture that accepts voice or text commands, plans full missions on its own, and then flies them
Dear wandering pilots of the internet, if you’re hovering on the edge of ordering the DJI Mini 5 Pro, consider this your gentle shove forward. This upgrade isn’t mild, it isn’t iterative, and it absolutely isn’t one of those “we changed the color of the propellers” (but weirdly, they changed the color of the drone)…
U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment completed their first official flight of the new Skydio small unmanned aircraft system earlier this month at Camp Foster in Okinawa, marking an early step in a broader modernization push inside 3rd Marine Division, as the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service reported. The lightweight aircraft gives Marines…
The U.S. Army is testing a new one way attack drone called the Low Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System at Yuma Proving Ground, as Army.mil reports. This is a system meant to be built in very large numbers and at a price point that allows commanders to expend them freely in high intensity combat. The…
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