Singing drone fails to lure orca back to sea
An attempt to use a singing drone to lure a lost orca in the River Seine in Paris, France, back out to sea failed last weekend. The rescue crew used a drone that broadcast a whale song to no avail.…
Wiebe de Jager
Wiebe de Jager is the founder of Dronewatch and author of several bestselling books about drone photography. Wiebe is a certified drone pilot and has a full ROC license.
Snap Pixy may be the first drone with a C0 classification
Recently, Snap, the company behind Snapchat, announced the Pixy, a mini drone with a possible C0 classification that should be seen as a kind of flying selfie stick rather than a ‘real’ camera drone. The drone is mainly intended for…
Wingcopter will provide 12,000 delivery drones for Africa’s transportation network
The German company Wingcopter will supply 12,000 delivery drones for a drone-based transport network in Africa. To this end, the company has entered into a partnership with Continental Drones. Over the next five years, the drones will be deployed in…
Exploring the Dolomites, a 4K Cinematic FPV drone video
In recent years, you have been able to admire quite a few drone videos of the Dolomites on DroneXL, but never before has an FPV drone video been included. It’s time to change that with the 4K cinematic FPV drone…
Antea Group conducts longest continuous drone flight in the Netherlands
Between June 30 and July 4, the longest continuous drone flight to date is to take place, from Oranjewoud in The Netherlands to Copenhagen in Denmark. Today, the initiator Antea Group is carrying out the dress rehearsal, covering 52 km…
EHang starts drone show service in Europe
The Chinese company EHang has started offering drone show services in the European market. To this end, EHang has entered into a partnership with the Austrian event agency Concept Solutions. With the new Drone Pixel service, the companies are responding…
New Elios 3 inspection drone uses LiDAR to scan environment in 3D
The Swiss company Flyability has announced a new version of the Elios 3 inspection drone equipped with a LiDAR sensor. Thanks to the addition of the laser scanner, the Elios 3 is suitable for indoor 3D mapping. Also new is…
5K Whistler Cinematic filmed on the DJI Air 2S
After all the marketing frenzy surrounding the introduction of the DJI Mini 3 Pro, you’d almost forget that last year DJI launched a very capable small drone with which you can record drone videos of exceptionally high quality: the DJI…
Canadian ambulance drone deployed in Ukraine for the first time
Last week, an ambulance drone supplied by the Canadian company Draganfly was used in Ukraine for the first time. The company reports this in a press release. Employees of the emergency aid organization Revived Soldiers Ukraine (RSU) have now been…
Scientists let drone swarm fly through dense forest
A team of Chinese scientists has managed to fly a drone swarm of ten drones through a dense bamboo forest. To this end, each drone was equipped with stereo cameras and an onboard computer for processing data and communicating with…
Prototype Belgian ‘drone bot’ can clean solar panels on roofs
More and more households are choosing to install solar panels on their roofs. But they do need to be cleaned every now and then for proper functioning and optimum yield. For example, it is not always easy because the panels…
DJI drones transmit location data unencrypted; ‘open source AeroScope’ in the making
Contrary to previous claims by the world’s largest drone maker, DJI drones transmit their location and ID data unencrypted. This means that anyone with knowledge of the facts can receive and read this information. DJI has since confirmed that the…