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Full rotorcraft integration on NASA’s Dragonfly octocopter began in early 2026 at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland — the same facility where engineers spent the past three years validating rotor performance in simulated Titan conditions. The timing matters because this is the phase where problems get expensive fast. And according…
The Gilroy City Council just approved its first Drone as First Responder program. The city gets the whole first year for free, as KSBW reported. That’s not a minor detail. That’s the kind of low-stakes entry point that gets hesitant councils off the fence. From “After Officers” to “Before Officers” Gilroy’s existing drone program has…
One drone. 45 seconds to scene. A 2.5-mile beach packed with tens of thousands of people. Clearwater just made a smart bet, and the aircraft they chose says a lot about where American law enforcement is headed, as WTSP reports. Spring Break Is a Traffic Problem With a Badge Clearwater Beach is one of the…
DJI did not say the words "DJI Avata 360." They did not need to. The footage shows classic first-person FPV flight sequences followed by unmistakable 360-degree shots, including a tiny planet perspective that only a spherical camera system can produce.
No shots fired. No physical confrontation. A deputy spoke through a drone from 200 yards away and a man with a gun laid down and surrendered. This is what de-escalation looks like in 2026. A Crisis Call on the West Tulsa Levee On January 27, the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office received a call about Joseph…
Portland City Council voted Monday night to approve a $45,316 purchase for the Portland Police Dept. first dedicated drone — a Skydio aircraft supplied through Axon
New FAA-funded research puts a hard number on what every drone pilot already knows: DJI is the US drone market. Not most of it. Nearly all of it. The ASSURE A83 2025 Annual Report, produced by researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Kansas State University, NIAR, and Wichita State University for the FAA’s Center of Excellence,…
The Oregon Department of Aviation (ODAV) just did something no federal agency has bothered to do: it counted the damage of the DJI Ban.
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