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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 That framing is already out of date.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…
Amazon just launched Prime in South Africa at 59 rand a month, and shoppers got same-day delivery, discounts, even cloud gaming. What they didn’t get is a single delivery drone. Prime Air isn’t coming, and when Amazon’s own regional boss was asked about it, he had nothing to say. The silence is the story, because…
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. This week I have four stories for you, and they cover a lot of ground: the FAA has published the Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and you should be paying attention, North Dakota has cut its beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) waiver…
The Good Drone Company signs an exclusive deal with ThatcherX to fly 25 kg cargo drones across Kenya, targeting heavier loads than Zipline carries.
Getting a beyond-visual-line-of-sight waiver from the FAA has long meant waiting years and hiring lawyers. North Dakota just made it take 23 business days. The state’s Vantis network, the first statewide BVLOS system in the country, has turned the biggest bottleneck in commercial drone work into something close to routine. If you fly drones for…
ConocoPhillips just ran a trial that did the same job in 16 minutes from the air, flying a DJI drone-in-a-box beyond visual line of sight at one of the U.K.'s
The Dallas Police Department’s new Drone as First Responder program made its first save on Thursday afternoon, one day after the program went live. A man was walking into rush-hour traffic on Interstate 45, a Skydio drone reached him before any patrol unit could, and a uniformed crew walked him off the freeway alive. The…
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