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A JetBlue pilot approaching John F. Kennedy International Airport reported hitting a drone at roughly 3,000 feet on Monday, June 29, and within hours the story was everywhere: a plane, a drone, a collision over New York. Then the aircraft landed, mechanics inspected it, and they found no damage. None. No dented leading edge, no…
The University of Tokyo’s JSK Lab flew DRAGON v1.5, a drone that changes its own shape in the air, in a live demonstration on the Komaba Campus in Tokyo. The robot bends and curls to pass through gaps that would stop a fixed-frame drone, and it does it autonomously, using only its onboard sensors. Now…
Jake Sloan tests the SkyRover X1 against the DJI Mini 4 Pro in Alaska: tracking, obstacle avoidance, log video, wind, battery life, and a Remote ID edge.
DJI has added a third camera to its O4 Air Unit lineup, and the headline number is the field of view. The new DJI O4 Wide Air Unit swaps the standard model’s 117.6-degree lens for a 159-degree ultra-wide one, giving FPV builders the immersive, edge-to-edge perspective they have been buying aftermarket lenses to get. The…
Chief Jon Buckholtz announced the rollout at a press conference, confirming that the Conroe City Council authorized the purchase of two Skydio X10 drones and two docking stations in December 2025 using asset forfeiture funds. "We purchased this with money that was seized from criminals, in order to fight criminals," Buckholtz said.
America now has roughly four registered drones for every registered crewed aircraft, and a public safety official is warning that the country has no agreed system for deciding which one moves out of the way. In a piece published June 24 in Homeland Security Today, Charles Werner, director of the DRONERESPONDERS Public Safety Alliance, laid…
Two rival drone delivery companies have spent a year running a working air traffic control system over North Texas suburbs with no humans brokering the traffic, and the headline number is genuinely impressive: zero airspace conflicts across roughly 8,000 overlapping flights. Flytrex and Wing coordinate their aircraft automatically in shared airspace above Little Elm and…
A JetBlue pilot told air traffic controllers his Airbus A321 collided with a drone at roughly 3,000 feet on final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport around 7:15 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 29. Flight 948 had flown overnight from Las Vegas and landed safely six minutes later at 7:21 a.m. A post-flight inspection…
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