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Flying indoors with a drone requires a different kind of discipline. No GPS lock, no obstacle avoidance to lean on, confined spaces where prop wash bounces off stone walls and wooden pews. Father Mitchell Bechtold, a 40-year-old Catholic priest serving parishes in central Minnesota, logged roughly 100 hours of outdoor flight time before he ever…
Too many new drone pilots jump straight into advanced moves without mastering the basics. There are five drone shots that you should be practicing first. I’m Greg, the co-founder of Pilot Institute, where more than 400,000 students have already learned to fly safely and confidently. In this article, I’m going to walk you through the…
A small New Hampshire town just voted to buy its first police drone. The board that approved it also made sure nobody could fly it until the rules are written down. That is the right order of operations, as VNEWS reported. The Enfield Selectboard voted 4 to 1 Monday night to accept a $15,000 donation…
That is the entire business model. Spexi built an app that takes over the flying for you, sends your drone on a precise autonomous flight path
In 2024, land mines and unexploded ordnance killed 1,945 people and injured 4,325 more. Ninety percent were civilians. Nearly half were children. Demining crews removed 105,640 mines that same year. The math is brutal, and it isn’t close. The Oldest Problem in Modern Warfare At least 57 countries still have live antipersonnel mines buried in…
Oregon's white paper reveals the FCC drone ban could cost states up to $2 billion, a new FAA study confirms DJI controls 96% of US airspace, the Commerce Department eases drone export rules, Indiana prosecutes its first illegal drone deer scouting case, and a drone helps rescue two people trapped on a 925-foot tower in Texas.
For everyone waiting on the DJI Avata 360; you are in for a surprise and you are going to be spoiled in the coming weeks. DJI is setting things up to absolutely destroy the competition (Antigravity A1) and the prices aren’t lying about that. DJI is not only changing the game price wise, but also…
Oklahoma just showed the rest of the country what aerospace education leadership actually looks like. And it started with teachers. Two Days at OSU That Actually Matter On February 27 and 28, the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronautics teamed up with OAIRE, the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education, to bring educators from…
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