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Luke Bell’s Solar Drone V2 Crashes Again After 2.5 Minutes — But the Engineering Keeps Getting Sharper
The panel array is 32 hand-soldered photovoltaic cells wired in an 8×4 grid across a carbon fiber frame — and it still can’t stay in the air long enough to grab lunch. That’s where Luke Bell’s solar drone project stands…
DJI Ban Debate Forces Police and Fire Agencies to Build Drone Programs That Can Survive Washington
A detailed governance framework published by Police1 makes the case that the central challenge for U.S. public safety agencies is no longer whether DJI belongs on a federal watchlist — it’s whether agencies have built drone programs capable of surviving…
DJI Mini 5 Pro: 10 Hidden Features That Make It Shoot Better and Fly Safer
A drone filmmaker who has logged five months with the DJI Mini 5 Pro has shared 10 features that most pilots overlook — some cinematic shortcuts, some safety settings that can keep the aircraft out of trees. The tips, published…
GoPro’s New GP3 Chip Could Make It the Action Camera Leader Again — Here’s What We Know
Good day folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. So, by recent activity on the GoPro website and on their YouTube channel and social media, it appears that GoPro perhaps might be launching a new camera. Now, historically, GoPro always releases…
AeroVironment Acquires ESAero in $200M Deal
AeroVironment just announced on a press release that has acquired Empirical Systems Aerospace in a transaction valued at approximately $200 million, adding a certified aerospace prototyping and manufacturing operation to a company that has spent the last twelve months aggressively…
DJI Revokes Operator’s Certificate After Agricultural Drone Used to Lift Person 10 Meters Into the Air
An agricultural drone built to spray citrus trees got used to hoist a person more than 10 meters off the ground in Fengjie County, Chongqing. DJI identified the violation through its own inspection process and responded accordingly: the operator, identified…
FCC Exempts Four Foreign Drone Models From Import Ban as DJI Court Battle Continues
Our earlier report today confirmed the news: the FCC has removed the first four drone systems from its “Covered List.” What that report didn’t have space to unpack is the regulatory logic behind the timing and the specific manufacturers chosen.…
America Keeps Buying Expensive Drones. China Keeps Building Millions of Cheap Ones.
A Substack analysis by Kate McKenna has been circulating hard in defense circles this week, and the numbers inside deserve a wider audience. Eleven MQ-9 Reapers downed in under two weeks. $330 million gone, lost to Iranian surface-to-air missiles and…
This FPV Pilot Fixed the DJI Neo 2 With Tape
Tom Palmaers is a Belgian FPV pilot, firefighter, and tactical drone instructor at BSSHOLLAND who has built a quiet but serious reputation in the global FPV community for doing something most pilots don’t bother with: actually understanding what’s happening inside…
Norway’s Elite Soldiers Are Hiding From Drones in Snow
The most sophisticated camouflage technology available to Norway’s elite Arctic reconnaissance unit right now isn’t thermal cloaking, radar-absorbing material, or anything you’d find in a defense procurement catalog. It’s snow. Piled by hand into a dome, allowed to harden, and…
Lutnick at Zipline: A New Blueprint for the American Drone Economy
The photos from inside Zipline’s South San Francisco manufacturing facility show Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, examining a drone airframe alongside CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton — American flags visible in the background. It’s a deliberate image, and it carries…
Drones Light the Fire at Pisgah National Forest
The U.S. Forest Service used a modified Freefly Alta X carrying Drone Amplified’s IGNIS aerial ignition system to conduct prescribed burns at the Wilson Ridge unit in Pisgah National Forest last weekend, treating 290 acres of hazardous fuel in terrain…