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I’ve been watching content creators slowly wake up to the reality of the FCC’s December 23 drone ban, and adventure filmmaker Jeven Dovey just delivered one of the clearest explanations I’ve seen for the YouTube community. His message is straightforward but sobering: this ruling goes far beyond DJI, and the content creator community needs to…
The FCC's December 23 drone policy didn't flip a switch. It started a countdown. Russ from 51 Drones explains how the drone ban affects emergency response, food costs, and infrastructure.
The drone skills you learned for your Part 107 business are now battlefield capabilities. That’s the uncomfortable reality buried in a massive New York Times investigation published this week, and it should concern every commercial operator in America. C.J. Chivers spent 18 months reporting from Ukrainian frontlines, test ranges, and drone workshops. What he documented…
These drones really are the cat’s meow, and occasionally the cow’s moo. Along the Jersey Shore, while most people worry about beach traffic and seagulls stealing fries, Michael Parziale is launching drones to bring missing pets home. Parziale, 64, a restaurant owner and FAA licensed drone pilot, has built an 18 drone rescue fleet through…
A Skydio X10 drone reached a potentially dangerous 911 call in Fairfax County, Virginia, in just 57 seconds, arriving before any patrol officer and fundamentally changing how police handled the situation. The call came in near Fair Oaks Mall, where a caller reported a man standing in a median armed with a bow and arrow.…
Wales is preparing to test a drone delivery system that could quietly change how blood reaches patients in emergencies. The Dragon’s Heart project will use specially commissioned aircraft to transport blood donations by air, replacing road journeys that currently take hours, as the BBC reports. Today, donated blood is processed in south Wales and moved…
Some drones announce themselves with noise, blinking lights, and shaky cellphone footage, others arrive like a thought you did not know you were having, quiet, inevitable, already there before you noticed. Saturday night over Venezuela, the RQ-170 Sentinel belonged firmly to the second category. At least one, and possibly two, of the U.S. Air Force’s…
I was genuinely excited when these 360° prop guards for the DJI Mini 5 Pro finally became available. After testing them extensively, I can tell you they’re unlike anything DJI has released before – but not entirely in the ways you might expect. Here’s what you need to know upfront: The full details come from…
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