Drones for Good

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Grayscale thermal drone image looking straight down on rows of tall standing crop, with a body-shaped heat signature between the rows near the center highlighted in red and a second warm spot at the left edge

Search & Rescue

Iowa Sheriff's Thermal Drone Finds Crash Driver Unhurt in a Field

Iowa deputies feared a Harcourt crash driver was thrown clear. A thermal drone from a team a 2020 pipeline donation seeded found the driver unhurt.

Haye KestelooOct 19

Gray DJI Matrice 4T drone with a spotlight and thermal gimbal on a white folding table next to a DJI RC Plus 2 controller and an open screen case, on a gravel construction site

Search & Rescue

Carolina Rescue Team Flies New DJI M4T, Calls the Ban Overreach

Charleston's all-volunteer Carolina Emergency Response Team trained on a new DJI Matrice 4T and called the DJI ban overreach nobody has time for.

Haye KestelooOct 19

Zipline

Zipline Turns 10: The Bouncy Castle Years Behind 3 Million Deliveries

Zipline marks 10 years since its first Rwanda flight with an origin film. The 51% maternal mortality figure it cites comes from a narrower study.

Haye KestelooOct 16

Gray DJI Matrice quadcopter with a gimbal camera underneath and a cylindrical radar unit on top, sitting on a concrete pad with green and red arm lights on

Firefighters

Missouri Fire Drone Caught a 200-Acre Blaze Jumping Its Line

A Logan-Rogersville drone showed Highlandville crews a 200-acre Stone County, Mo., fire had jumped a river. It was the chief's first drone at a fire.

Haye KestelooOct 15

Red Air Upstate fixed-wing VTOL delivery drone with RigiTech markings parked on a black and white landing mat, an orange traffic cone behind it

Drone Delivery

Upstate Medical's New Drone Port Is Already Cleared To Fly To Utica

Upstate University Hospital opened a drone port for Air Upstate, with clearance to fly to Wynn Hospital in Utica and Causey Aviation named as partner.

Haye KestelooOct 7

White Airspection VTOL drone with wings and a tail rotor flying over a sandy beach with a row of offshore wind turbines on the horizon

BVLOS

Airspection Drone Skips the Boat on BVLOS Run to UK Wind Farm

Glasgow's Airspection flew a shore-launched drone 8.7 miles round trip to a Liverpool Bay wind farm beyond line of sight in the UK CAA's BVLOS sandbox.

Haye KestelooOct 6

Gray blueflite cargo drone hovering low over a mown field with its winch hooks hanging beneath the fuselage, tree line behind

Drone Delivery

Munson Medical Drones Fly Again Oct. 6, Five Months After DroneUp Quit

Munson Healthcare and blueflite fly phase two of Michigan's medical drone trial Oct. 6 to 30 in Traverse City, five months after operator DroneUp quit.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Hillsborough County Fire Rescue ArcherFRS blood delivery drone on the ground at the Public Safety Operations Complex in Tampa

WHOLE BLOOD

Hillsborough Blood Drones Launch in October, Flown From Sarasota

Hillsborough County approved its whole blood drone program for October. ArcherFRS pilots in Sarasota fly it, and no announcement says what it costs.

Haye KestelooSep 30

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