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DJI has started publicly promoting a firmware change that lets its Matrice 4D Series fly compliant European beyond-visual-line-of-sight missions from a handheld controller instead of a fixed docking station. The company’s Enterprise arm laid out the details in a June 12 blog post and pushed it to a wider audience through an X thread on…
The Aerial Evolution Association of Canada named Medicine Hat, Alberta as the host city for the 18th annual AEAC Student Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Competition, scheduled for May 14 to 16, 2027. The choice keeps the country’s top university and college drone competition in the same southeast Alberta corridor that hosted the 2025 edition. The 2027…
When Dominion Energy’s grid operators noticed an unexpected power drop at the Colonial Trail West solar farm in Surry County, Virginia this June, they didn’t send a lineman. They sent a drone. Pilot Aaron Colgrove pulled up the mission from Dominion’s D-ROC, the company’s drone remote operations center, told the unit to head to the…
Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) spent part of June 8 at the Southeast Purdue Ag Center in Butlerville, watching agricultural spray drones lift off at the Indiana Spray Drone Association Education Day. The visit gave a sitting U.S. senator a close look at the same machines that Hoosier farmers now use to seed and spray thousands…
DJI has extended the existing C6 class certification on its Matrice 4D Series to cover standalone flights with the DJI RC Plus 2 Enterprise controller, removing the requirement that the aircraft launch from a DJI Dock 3 to fly compliant European BVLOS missions. The change applies to the Matrice 4D and 4TD running firmware version…
NASA, UNOS, and LifeNet Health have successfully completed what they are calling a first-of-its-kind study: transporting human kidneys by drone.
The headline you keep reading is that drone pilots will fly beyond visual line of sight “within a year or so.” That framing is already out of date. The deadline for a final Part 108 rule was February 1, 2026, set by President Trump’s June 2025 executive order, and that date came and went months…
The UK Civil Aviation Authority has published its Test and Evaluation Annual Report 2025-2026, and the numbers inside are the kind of evidence American operators have been asking the FAA to produce for years. CAP 3266 documents 1,672 distinct BVLOS flights and over 350 flight hours collected from industry partners between October 2024 and March…
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