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A Ukrainian sergeant won his country’s “Wild Drones” military flying competition by piloting as slowly and carefully as possible, taking 11 minutes to finish a course built for a five-minute sprint while faster rivals collided and crashed around him. Sgt. Zakhar Korol, 37, of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade “Magura,” outlasted the field at a…
A shoplifting run at a Buena Park Kohl’s ended with two people in custody on June 9, and the deciding factor never touched the ground. When one suspect bolted on foot and folded himself into a stranger’s backyard shed, he figured the dark and the fences would hide him. A police drone overhead, reading his…
Phoenix is on the list. Wing and Walmart named seven new metropolitan areas this week for the largest drone delivery network in the country, and Arizona’s capital sits among them. The rollout is phased, with operations across the new markets targeted by 2027. For Phoenix shoppers, it points toward a near future where a tube…
A dog got spooked on a hike at Ecola State Park, bolted, and vanished for nearly two hours. When searchers finally spotted it, the animal was stranded about 100 feet down a steep Oregon cliff, in a spot no person could safely reach on foot. The thing that found it wasn’t a search dog or…
Mystery drones are hovering over Norwich, Connecticut homes at night. Police are investigating as World Cup airspace restrictions tighten the Northeast.
The FCC‘s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau on June 4 exempted the VEX AIR Uncrewed Aircraft System from the Covered List, after the Department of War granted Innovation First International a Conditional Approval that runs through December 31, 2026. The same public notice, DA 26-548, clears five Sagemcom USA router models from the list…
Transport Canada published Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) 2026-005 on June 8, 2026, the biggest proposed rewrite of Canadian drone rules since Part IX of the Canadian Aviation Regulations took effect in 2019. The proposal would mandate Remote ID for most drone operations, create a formal Community-Based Organization model with permanent flying sites exempt from…
The Federal Aviation Administration will modify all of its FIFA World Cup 2026 drone NOTAMs to add an authorization pathway through the Department of Homeland Security, starting with the Texas locations. The change comes less than two weeks after the tournament’s sweeping flight restrictions took effect on June 1 and began grounding commercial drone operators…
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