Due to bad weather, the 2023 drone show above the A’DAM Tower that was originally planned for New Year’s Eve took place last Monday, January 2nd. At exactly 20:23 at night, 600 drones flew simultaneously to create a display of…
This is great News for European DJI Mavic 3 and Mavic 3 Cine owners. After upgrading the camera drone with a newly published Firmware Update, users can obtain a C1 label as of Friday, December 9. The DJI camera drone…
Last week, Volocopter successfully completed a manned test flight with the VoloCity air taxi over Rome’s international Airport. The plan is to create a regular connection between the airport and the city center of Rome by the end of 2024.…
A 32-year-old drug-smuggling drone pilot from Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands, has been jailed for seventeen months for attempting to smuggle a package with drugs and a telephone into the penitentiary institution (PI) Leeuwarden using a drone. The smuggling attempt with…
A drone took off in the Frisian Oranjewoud in the Netherlands on Wednesday that aims to make the longest civilian drone flight so far in Europe. The goal is for the drone to fly to Copenhagen within four days. The…
The Dutch drone manufacturer Vertical Technologies has launched a new model EVTOL drone that allows a maximum flight time of 4.5 hours. The DeltaQuad Evo is based on a fixed-wing design and can take off and land vertically. The drone…
Last Sunday night, the Police arrested two men who were about to smuggle drugs into the Dordrecht penitentiary in the Netherlands using a DJI Phantom 4 drone and a telephone. This is reported by the Dordrecht Police on Facebook. Employees…
After registering with the RDW as a drone owner in the Netherlands, you will receive an operator number that you must affix visibly to all your drones. As it turns out, this does not necessarily have to be done using…
The Australian company Sphere Drones has developed a new water sampling system that can be used in combination with various DJI drones. The system is called Nero Poli and can take up to four water samples in one drone flight,…
The European aviation authority, EASA, recently published the annual Safety Review. In that report, all incidents and incidents related to aviation in Europe are listed. The report shows that the number of (near) drone collisions has fallen sharply since 2018.…
The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee has seized a drone that was flown over the territory of Paleis Het Loo. An aerial platform from the fire brigade had to come because the drone had ended up in a tree. The Marechaussee is…
A Chinese man has been seriously injured in a collision with a cargo drone. The incident occurred while extinguishing a fire in a hilly neighborhood in the Chinese metropolis of Chongqing. The man, who volunteered to help with the firefighting,…