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Donecle’s €10M Inspection Drone Raise Meets America’s Aircraft Mechanic Shortage
Donecle, the Toulouse-based maker of autonomous aircraft inspection drones, closed a €10 million (approximately $11 million) funding round on April 15. Eleven days later, the Wall Street Journal published a feature on America’s aviation mechanic shortage that explains why that…
Joby Aviation Flies JFK to Manhattan in NYC’s First Point-to-Point eVTOL Demos
Joby Aviation completed New York City’s first point-to-point electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi demonstration flights this past weekend, the company announced this morning. The aircraft, tail number N545JX, departed John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and landed…
FBI Probes Theft Of 15 Agricultural Spray Drones In New Jersey As Iran War Heightens Bioterror Fears
Fifteen agricultural spray drones were stolen from a New Jersey location last month in what the FBI is treating as a sophisticated, possibly coordinated theft, according to reporting by national security journalists Jack Murphy and Sean D. Naylor at The…
Drone Delivery Could Unlock $16B in Profits, Barclays Says
Barclays published research on Wednesday arguing that autonomous food delivery, driven by sidewalk robots and drones, could cut per-order costs to roughly $1 in the long term. The British bank sees about $16 billion in unlocked annual profit across the…
Cam Mackey Ties DJI Pocket 4 US Absence To Political Money And Defense Investments
YouTube creator Cam Mackey published a video this week arguing that the DJI Osmo Pocket 4‘s absence from the US market has less to do with national security and more to do with campaign money, political connections, and family investments…
FAA Replaces Controversial ICE NOTAM, Pentagon Cites Classified Intel Against DJI, and DJI Teases New Lido Drone
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. The FAA publishes a new NOTAM to replace the controversial ICE NOTAM — interesting stuff there. The Pentagon cites classified intelligence to oppose DJI’s FCC…
Oakland County OKs Flock Drones Despite Privacy Revolt
Oakland County’s Board of Commissioners voted 13-4 on April 8 to approve a nine-month pilot program that puts Flock Safety drones in the hands of the county Sheriff’s Office, as M Live reports. The decision came over loud protests from…
Army Tests Golden Shield Anti-Drone Net at Fort Hood
The U.S. Army just proved it can detect, track, and destroy a drone without a human pulling the trigger. The 1st Cavalry Division completed a live-fire test of its Golden Shield counter-drone network at Fort Hood, Texas, from April 7…
FAA Clears Military to Use Anti-Drone Lasers in U.S. Airspace After Two-Month Standoff
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the U.S. military formal clearance on Friday to use high-energy lasers against suspected drones in U.S. airspace, ending a two-month interagency dispute that twice shut down commercial flight operations over the Texas-Mexico border. FAA…
FAA’s eIPP lets Wisk and Reliable Robotics fly commercial before certification, and that changes everything
The FAA’s eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) is now doing something U.S. aviation regulators have never done: letting companies fly commercial missions with uncertified aircraft, then using the data to write the rules afterward. A detailed report from Aviation International…
Mithril Defense Puts Pepper-Gel Drones in High School Hallways — And Two States Are Paying for It
A Wall Street Journal investigation published April 5, 2026 put a national spotlight on Mithril Defense, the Austin, Texas startup deploying fleets of rapid-response drones inside American high schools as part of its Campus Guardian Angel platform. Florida has committed…
Amazon Prime Air MK30 at XPONENTIAL Europe Düsseldorf: A Heavy Drone With a Crash Problem
Amazon Prime Air brought its MK30 delivery drone to XPONENTIAL Europe in Düsseldorf, Germany last week, where I spent considerable time with a company representative discussing the aircraft’s design. I came away with more questions than answers. The MK30 stands…