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A small quadcopter drone hovering just above the wing of a parked commercial airliner behind an airport perimeter fence

FAA

TSA's 'Drone Drone Drone' Post Hits 736K Views And A Six-Figure Threat

TSA's 46-word 'drone' post says a no drone zone flight near an airport can cost hundreds of thousands. The FAA got there four times, never for one flight.

Haye KestelooNov 5

White Wing delivery drone with yellow wingtips hovering above trees and lowering a blue Walmart package on a tether

Drone Delivery

Walmart Cut a Drone Delivery Ribbon in West Memphis. Nothing Flies Yet

West Memphis, Arkansas, cut a ribbon for Walmart and Wing drone delivery on November 2. Wing still lists no Arkansas service and Memphis as coming soon.

Haye KestelooNov 5

SkyeBrowse Roof Damage Analysis panel beside a 3D model of a commercial building, its roof outlined in purple facets with pitch and area labels

Drone Software

SkyeBrowse Measures a Roof and Flags Hail Hits From One Drone Flight

SkyeBrowse's Roof Damage Analysis outlines every facet, reports squares and pitch, pins hail hits with AI and pulls NOAA storm data from one drone flight.

Haye KestelooNov 5

Zipline

Zipline Nearly Died Two Years Ago. Today It's Worth $21.5 Billion

Zipline's CEO: investors called it uninvestable for ten years and the P2 nearly killed it. DroneXL holds his 'silent and safe' line against Amazon's MK30.

Haye KestelooNov 5

Zipline

Zipline Raises $1.5 Billion as Walmart Signs for 300 More Drone Sites

Zipline closed $1.5 billion at a $21.5 billion valuation and a Walmart deal for 300 more sites. Walmart's whole drone program was 66 stores in May.

Haye KestelooNov 5

Gray DJI Matrice 5T drone with its arms folded sitting on a black hard case, its four-lens gimbal and laser rangefinder facing the camera, with a dark forest and cloudy sky behind

LAUNCH

DJI Matrice 5T Puts 1K Thermal in a Folding Drone the US Can't Buy

DJI's Matrice 5T folds, flies 59 minutes and carries 1280 thermal. Its spec sheet rates the radio for Canada, Europe, China and Japan, and not the FCC.

Haye KestelooNov 5

Wildfire

Pano AI Fire Cameras Can Now Alert Seneca and BRINC Drones to Smoke

Pano AI's Drone Partner Program sends wildfire detections and coordinates to Seneca, Rain, BRINC and Censys drones. Its launch graphic adds Skydio.

Haye KestelooNov 4

Black YiVTOL S-Zero Plus eight-rotor personal eVTOL hovering a few feet above a lawn with a helmeted pilot in the open cockpit, trees behind

FAA

Jimmy's World: FAA Says My Human Drone Is Illegal, Batteries Included

Jimmy's World says the FAA told him his YiVTOL S-Zero Plus fails Part 103: batteries count toward the 254 lb limit and a remote control makes it a drone.

Haye KestelooNov 4

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