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Wisk Aero Flies Second Gen 6 Autonomous Air Taxi, Doubling Certification Test Rate
Wisk Aero flew its second Generation 6 autonomous air taxi for the first time on May 4 at the company’s flight test facility in Hollister, California, bringing the Boeing subsidiary’s active certification test fleet to two aircraft for the first…
California Homeowner Solves Delivery Problem With Drone Show
Tom BetGeorge has tried everything. He updated his pin on Google Maps. He put up a sign on the street. He explained the driveway situation to anyone who would listen. Nothing worked. So last week, the Linden, California homeowner did…
Joby Aviation’s Manhattan Demo Closes Quieter Than I Expected: A Witness Account From Blade Lounge East
Joby Aviation closed its New York City flight campaign on Friday afternoon with a final piloted demonstration into Blade Lounge East at the East 34th Street Heliport, and I was on the pad when N545JX touched down. The aircraft came…
Florida Signs Vertiport Funding Law, Setting Up December 2026 Commercial Air Taxi Target
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 1093 into law on April 20, 2026, authorizing the Florida Department of Transportation to fund up to 100 percent of public vertiport construction costs where federal funds are unavailable. The legislation, formally titled…
Eurovision 2026 Opens With Europe’s Largest Drone Show
Vienna didn’t open the 70th Eurovision Song Contest with fireworks. It opened with 3,000 drones, as ESCXTRA reported. On the evening of April 27, Dubai-based production company Cyberdrone launched what organizers are calling the largest drone show ever staged in…
After Lahaina, Hawaiian Electric Bets on Drone Inspections
Two and a half years after a downed power line sparked the fire that killed 102 people and erased most of Lahaina, Hawaiian Electric is flying drones over every island it serves, as Maui News reported. The utility has contracted…
Airbus Flexrotor Takes Night Watch on Federal Wildfire Contract, Eyes Helicopter Hand-Off
Oregon-based firefighting operator Precision has integrated the Airbus Flexrotor into a federal wildfire contract, using the 25 kg (55 lb) uncrewed aircraft to fly continuous nighttime surveillance while crewed helicopter teams rest. Precision has operated the Flexrotor since 2014 and…
Donecle’s €10M Inspection Drone Raise Meets America’s Aircraft Mechanic Shortage
Donecle, the Toulouse-based maker of autonomous aircraft inspection drones, closed a €10 million (approximately $11 million) funding round on April 15. Eleven days later, the Wall Street Journal published a feature on America’s aviation mechanic shortage that explains why that…
Joby Aviation Flies JFK to Manhattan in NYC’s First Point-to-Point eVTOL Demos
Joby Aviation completed New York City’s first point-to-point electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi demonstration flights this past weekend, the company announced this morning. The aircraft, tail number N545JX, departed John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and landed…
NASA’s Dragonfly Octocopter Hits Three Build Milestones Ahead of 2028 Titan Launch
NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft is no longer a render. Over the past two months, the team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has bolted together the lander’s primary structure, dropped a full-scale parachute system over the Arizona desert, and…
Cobb Police Deploy Skydio Drones to Track Murder Suspect in I-75 Corridor
Cobb County police responded to a shooting involving a murder suspect near Leland and Windy Hill roads on Tuesday afternoon, deploying drones alongside SWAT teams and K9 units to track Damian Strozier, 31, who fled after exchanging gunfire with officers,…
Parrot ANAFI USA to Patrol Skies at 2026 World Cup
The U.S. Coast Guard is deploying the Parrot ANAFI USA as part of a new domestic counter-drone mission this summer, with the FIFA World Cup and America’s 250th anniversary celebrations as the first real operational test, as reported by Defense…