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300 Drones to Light Up Brooklyn for Kids’ Hospitals
This Sunday night Brooklyn is getting something rare, warm, and genuinely uplifting as 300 synchronized drones rise over the Greenpoint waterfront
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Baton Rouge Police Deploy First Stalker VXE30 Drone
The Baton Rouge Police Department has added a new aircraft to its growing drone unit, and this one immediately stands apart from the rest of the fleet. Unveiled this week, the Edge Autonomy Stalker VXE30 is significantly larger than any of the other thirty drones currently operated by the department, with a wingspan that stretches…
Colorado
Colorado Celebrates 150 Years With Massive Drone Shows
Colorado is turning 150 this year, and instead of celebrating with loud bangs and accidental grass fires, the state is looking up and doing things a little smarter. More than forty locations across Colorado will host CO150 drone shows throughout the year, using hundreds of synchronized drones to tell the state’s story in the night…
Tennessee
Tennessee Deputies Use Drone to Find Suspect in Leaves
A routine traffic stop in Lawrence County, Tennessee quickly escalated when a passenger jumped out of the vehicle and ran before deputies could even reach the window. Law enforcement later identified the man as Joshua Harold Long, 42, a convicted felon already on probation for a 2019 methamphetamine case, as reported by WKRN. According to…
DJI
College of DuPage Wins $4M for Drone Training
The College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, has been awarded $4 million in federal funding to expand its aviation and drone education programs, a move aimed squarely at fixing growing workforce shortages across the U.S. aviation sector, as Aviation Web reports. The funding comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement…
Skydio
Bridgeport’s Flock Safety Drone Program Collapses Five Days After Launch Amid National Backlash
Just five days ago, we reported on Bridgeport, Connecticut officially launching its Drone as First Responder program with Flock Safety. Mayor Joe Ganim was demonstrating the drones on rooftops. Police Chief Roderick Porter was calling it “re-imagining policing.” Council President Jeanette Herron was praising the technology as a “major step forward.“ That program is now…
Skydio
Tampa Police Add Skydio Drones and VR to Safety Toolkit
Tampa Police are stepping into a future where training does not begin on the street but inside a headset, surrounded by pixels that behave like pressure, noise, and uncertainty, as 10 Tampa Bay reports. Thanks to federal funding, officers and recruits now train with virtual reality simulations that recreate real world encounters where decisions matter…
DJI
FCC Drone Ban Threatens Agricultural Operations Warns Texas Farm Bureau
The Texas Farm Bureau is sounding the alarm on the FCC’s sweeping foreign drone ban, warning that “limited availability of drones and parts could prevent farmers and ranchers from adequately managing pesticide and fertilizer use, monitoring crop stress, checking livestock and other essential tasks.” The agricultural sector is now grappling with what this regulatory shift…
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