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Skydio CEO Adam Bry published a long-form article on X on June 8 making a direct case against the trend of building large quadcopters for Drone as First Responder (DFR) programs. His argument is not marketing. It is a physics-driven attack on the entire premise that a bigger drone with a bigger camera is the…
Manna has issued an official response to Fingal County Council’s May 19 refusal of its Coolmine drone delivery hub, anchoring its defence on a Trinity College Dublin acoustic study and on World Health Organization, EU, EASA, ISO, and Irish EPA noise standards. The company told DroneXL through its public relations team on June 18 that planning frameworks built…
On Decoder, Skydio CEO Adam Bry walked back his company's posted no-weapons pledge, called drawing red lines "dangerously misguided," and conceded China still builds better drones.
The headline you keep reading is that drone pilots will fly beyond visual line of sight “within a year or so.” That framing is already out of date. The deadline for a final Part 108 rule was February 1, 2026, set by President Trump’s June 2025 executive order, and that date came and went months…
The UK Civil Aviation Authority has published its Test and Evaluation Annual Report 2025-2026, and the numbers inside are the kind of evidence American operators have been asking the FAA to produce for years. CAP 3266 documents 1,672 distinct BVLOS flights and over 350 flight hours collected from industry partners between October 2024 and March…
Shawn from Air Photography reviews the DJI Osmo Mobile 8P after 30 days. The detachable FrameTap remote, live view, and version 2 tracking module are standouts.
The Toy Association lobbied its way to an FCC toy-drone exemption while DJI, Autel, and the operators who fly drones for a living stay banned. A look at who wins in Washington.
A sub-250-gram (8.8 oz) drone built by a Czech engineering shop just clocked 351.4 mph (565.4 km/h) on a two-way speed run and smashed the standing world record for its category. Born4Flight’s SH250G SpeedHunter, flown by founder Jakub Espandr on May 28, beat the previous mark of 222.7 mph (358.36 km/h) set in Tianjin, China…
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