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Weber County rescue pilot Kyle Nordfors told the FCC no US-made drone matches what his team flies, and offered to prove it. His full comments, and how to file yours before midnight.
DroneXL filed comments in FCC docket 26-189 today. Read the filing in full, and use the step-by-step guide to submit your own before the window closes.
A gunshot brought down a real estate photographer's DJI Mavic 4 Pro camera drone over Athens, Alabama. Federal law calls that destroying an aircraft.
Germany formally blames Russia for the August 4 explosive drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport and will close the Russian consulate in Bonn on September 18.
New US tariffs on imported drones take effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on September 3. The duty applies at import, not at checkout, so existing inventory can keep selling at today's prices.
Greg Whiting took the Eric Talley Public Safety UAS Excellence Award at Commercial UAV Expo, days after his Texas program logged its 100,000th sortie.
Fewer than 3,000 comments have been filed in PS Docket 26-189 against nearly half a million certificated remote pilots. The window closes September 2.
Greg Reverdiau told Commercial UAV Expo the affordable drone that created this industry is disappearing, and aviation already ran this experiment once.
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