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Department of Transportation

What Pete Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation means for drone industry

Romeo Durscher explains what Pete Buttigieg's confirmation as Secretary of Transportation means for the drone industry in an interview.

Haye KestelooFeb 4

Drones for Good

Drone with thermal camera helps to find 78-year-old man in Alexander County, NC

In Alexander County, NC, officers used a police drone with a thermal camera to find a 78-year-old man who had gone missing on Wednesday...

Haye KestelooJan 29

Amazon

Scared-to-death girl chased by drone for months in weird animated story

And today I come across this weird animated story in which a scared-to-death girl chased by drone flown by her own grandfather. Instead

Haye KestelooJan 28

Police

Pilot presses wrong button and crashes $85,000 police drone

A press of the wrong button resulted in the crash of an $85,000 police drone in the UK. The ground station of the Aeryon SkyRanger R60...

Wiebe de JagerJan 19

Police

Belgian police drone drops handcuffs at hostage-taker

The police used a drone to drop handcuffs on a hostage-taker who was about to surrender. After the suspect handcuffed himself, the police

Wiebe de JagerJan 13

Auterion

Auterion welcomes Romeo Durscher to the team

Hopeful that he would not be leaving the drone industry, we are glad to report that Romeo has joined Auterion as VP of Public Safety.

Haye KestelooJan 12

Industry

Daily Drone News – Friday January 8, 2021

Here are today’s most important drone news articles. We publish this post every weekday at 5:30 p.m. Some of these stories are from DroneXL.co and some of them will be from other sources. If you’d like to receive this in an email going forward, be sure to subscribe using the form below.

Haye KestelooJan 8

Police

DJI M300 RTK as police drone for city of Woodbury, MN

Soon, the city of Woodbury, MN will be presenting its plans during a City Council meeting to purchase a DJI M300 RTK as a police drone.

Haye KestelooJan 8

First Responders

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