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Amazon's Drones Now Have a 'Plan B' for Safe Landings
Amazon

Amazon Prime Air launches in Kansas City, its seventh US market, days after Texas drone crash

Amazon activated Prime Air drone delivery in Kansas City, Kansas today, February 9, making it the seventh metropolitan area in the United States to receive the service, as reported by KCTV5. The launch comes just five days after an MK30 drone crashed into a Richardson, Texas apartment building, leaving smoke and debris on a public sidewalk. Here is what you need…

The 3 Biggest Fears Every Drone Pilot Has (And How to Overcome Them)
DJI

The 3 Biggest Fears Every Drone Pilot Has (And How to Overcome Them)

I got a question for you. Why haven’t you flown that drone yet? You just purchased one for yourself for the holidays, but it’s still sitting in the box. What’s holding you back? Why haven’t you launched it into the air and started having fun with it? I’ll tell you why. Because you’re terrified to…

Santa Barbara County Fire crews searching the shoreline at Haskell Beach in Goleta, California.
DJI

DJI Matrice 30 drone helps rescue surfer swept offshore in California

A surf session off the California coast nearly turned tragic, but a lobster trap buoy and a DJI Matrice 30 drone helped write a very different ending, as reported by FOX WEATHER. High surf pulls surfer away from shore The incident happened Friday at Haskell Beach in Goleta, California, where a surfer in his 20s…

DJI Mini 3 Is the Perfect First Drone and It’s On Sale
DJI

DJI Mini 3 Is the Perfect First Drone and It’s On Sale

If you are new to drones, welcome to the sky. It is windy up here, sometimes confusing, often addictive, and occasionally full of warnings written in very small text. The DJI Mini 3 is the kind of drone that gently takes your hand, points at the horizon, and says relax, I got this. Also, I…

Overhead black-and-white view of a DJI Phantom quadcopter surrounded by folding DJI Mavic drones and other multirotors arranged on a white surface
Michigan

Dearborn Launches Michigan’s First DFR Program

Dearborn is officially airborne. As of February 2, 2026, the City of Dearborn has rolled out a full scale Drone as First Responder program, making it the first city in Michigan to deploy drones as an integrated, citywide emergency response system, as FOX2 DETROIT reports. This is not a limited pilot or a specialty unit…

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Skydio

LMPD wants to double its police drone fleet

Late Saturday night in Louisville, a burglary suspect ran out of Doss High School, likely betting on darkness, distance, and a little winter chaos to break contact with police. That bet collapsed almost instantly, because an officer on scene launched a drone, and the sky politely refused to look away, as WAVE 3 reports. Within…

Amazon Prime Air Delivery Drone MK30 in Oregon
Amazon

Amazon Delivery Drone Crashes in North Texas

An Amazon Prime Air delivery drone crashed into the side of an apartment complex in Richardson, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon, creating a brief moment of panic, a cloud of smoke, and a reminder that even futuristic delivery dreams still run into gravity, as FOX4NEWS reported. According to local officials, the drone struck the exterior of…

A grey DJI Matrice quadcopter flies past a building bearing the DJI logo.
DJI

Dixon County drone program takes off with new DJI thermal fleet

Dixon County is quietly building something impressive above the cornfields, not a runway or a tower, but a drone program that has grown from pure initiative into a serious public safety asset, powered by thermal vision, teamwork, and a little outside help, as Norfolk Daily News reports. What started with one person and one personal…

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