When it comes to inspecting high-voltage transmission towers using autonomous drones, the British grid operator, National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET), has big plans. The company wants to allow drones to fly independently around the masts and to have the obtained…
The DJI Mini 3 Pro has been on the market for a few weeks now. According to DJI’s mini drone camera performs exceptionally well in low light, but is that really the case? Video maker and drone pilot Sean Alami…
The Belgian railway manager, Infrabel, in collaboration with FPS Mobility, has sent an email to drone pilots asking them to keep some distance from railway infrastructure, such as railways and overhead wires. This is for safety reasons. Unlike in the…
The Dutch company BlueMark Innovations has released a Remote ID addon with which the position of nearby flying drones and the associated operator numbers can be made visible on a smartphone or special receiver. In the future, such an addon…
A Dutch drone pilot was shot at on Friday while he was flying his unmanned aircraft. This is reported by the police. The drone was undamaged, but the man, who is from the city of Tholen in the Netherlands, was…
In order to be able to evade independently, Zipline drones will be equipped with microphones that can detect other air traffic within a radius of 2 km. According to the company, the acoustic detect-and-avoid (DAA) system is the key to…
It is estimated that about 6,000 commercial drones are currently deployed for combat in Ukraine. Some of these are piloted by young drone pilots. As in the case of 15-year-old drone pilot Andrii Pokrasa, who helped determine the location of…
Monday, June 6, Whit Monday, was Castle Day 2022 in The Netherlands. More than 100 castles and country estates opened their gates to the public that day. To get a taste of Dutch history, you can watch this drone footage…
During the development of the recently introduced DJI Mini 3 Pro, the engineers wanted to add as many new features as possible, but the drone had to stay under 250 grams. In this article, DJI’s Christopher Tuazon explains how they…
Reading a pressure gauge in a hard-to-reach place in an industrial installation. At the moment, inspectors literally have to squeeze in all sorts of twists and turns. But in 2022, driving, walking, and flying robots could largely take over this…
In Denmark, the start of the three-year HealthDrone project has been heralded with a medical drone flight over a distance of no less than 31 miles. During the flight, a number of blood samples were transported from Svendborg Hospital to…
Who would have ever thought that a drone weighing less than 250 grams would be enough to record a short nature film in near-cinema quality? Yet that is exactly what Denis Barbas convincingly demonstrates with his DJI Mini 2. Using…