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How to Fly Your Drone Safely Over Water: Settings, Prep, and Emergency Tips
Water makes for stunning footage, but it’s also one of the easiest places to, well, lose your drone. In this article, I’m going to show you how to fly safely and with confidence over water. You want those stunning ocean…
DJI SkyPixel 2026: The Best Drone Photos on the Planet
DJI just announced the winners of the 11th Annual SkyPixel Photo and Video Contest, and if you were feeling reasonably good about your drone footage, I’d recommend not scrolling too far. The competition drew nearly 95,000 submissions from 96 countries,…
DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Launch Spot Was Filmed With A Sony FX3 Across South Africa And Hong Kong
South African filmmaker Jacques Crafford published a behind-the-scenes breakdown on April 29 showing how the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 global launch commercial was actually produced. The shoot ran 8 days across South Africa and Hong Kong with a skeleton crew.…
DJI SkyPixel 11th Contest Names ‘Africa Unseen’ Best Video As Submissions Fall By A Third
DJI and SkyPixel announced the winners of the 11th Annual SkyPixel Photo and Video Contest on April 27, naming “Africa Unseen” by ellisvanjason as the Annual Best Video in the Aerial Category. Slovak photographer Filip Hrebenda won the Annual Best…
No Replacement for DJI, FCC Opens Public Comments, and Oregon Wants New Drone Test Sites
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have three stories for you this week: a report that confirms that, sadly, nobody is coming to replace DJI in the consumer market; the FCC has opened public comments on drone spectrum…
Harvard Students Build Fixed-Wing VTOL Drone to Track Sperm Whales in Dominica
Two Harvard mechanical engineering seniors have built a fixed-wing VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) drone from scratch to help marine biologists locate sperm whales tagged with VHF (very high frequency) transmitters off the coast of Dominica, according to a project…
DJI Drones Catch Porpoises in the Act off Shetland
Nobody told the harbour porpoises they were on camera. Good thing, too, because what scientists captured in Shetland’s waters is the most detailed look at harbour porpoise mating behaviour ever recorded in UK waters, as Oceanographic Magazine reported. A drone…
DJI Wants Developers to Build the Future of Aerial AI. The Prize Is Real.
DJI just opened a competition that could change what drones are capable of. Not the hardware. The brain. The DJI Enterprise Drone Onboard AI Challenge 2026 is not a drone racing event. It is not a photography contest. It is…
DJI Matrice 30 Is Counting Deer on Martha’s Vineyard. The Ticks Are Not Happy About It.
Martha’s Vineyard has a deer problem. The deer have a tick problem. And the ticks have been giving Islanders a very serious disease problem for years, as MV Times reports. The solution, apparently, begins with a DJI Matrice 30 at…
Oklahoma Is Building the Drone Workforce From the Classroom Up
Oklahoma just showed the rest of the country what aerospace education leadership actually looks like. And it started with teachers. Two Days at OSU That Actually Matter On February 27 and 28, the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics teamed…
Oklahoma Drones Drop Poison Pellets to Kill Invasive Cedar Trees
Oklahoma has a slow-motion wildfire crisis growing one tree at a time. Drones dropping herbicide pellets tree by tree may be the most cost-effective answer anyone has found yet, as reported by KOSU. The Tree That Is Eating Oklahoma Eastern…
Drones Will Hunt Toxic Algae Across Florida’s Lake Okeechobee
Every summer, a thick green menace takes over Florida’s largest lake. Embry-Riddle researchers are about to send drones after it. Florida’s Biggest Lake Has a Toxic Summer Tenant Lake Okeechobee is 730 square miles of freshwater sitting at the heart…