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NASA Langley Flew Donated Kidneys 7.5 Miles By Drone, And The Aircraft It Chose Says Everything
NASA researchers in Hampton, Virginia, put two human kidneys on a heavy-lift drone and flew them in 7.5-mile loops beyond the operator’s line of sight, then biopsied the organs to check for damage. They found none. The June 5 flights…
DJI Matrice 300 RTK Found Hidden Hotspots in Clarkson Apartment Fire
A three-story apartment complex caught fire near SUNY Brockport in Clarkson, New York, and the fire moved through the attic faster than crews expected. When Brockport Fire Chief Adam Leggett looked up at the height of the building and realized…
Chino Police Scale Drone Fireworks Enforcement To 65 Officers After One-Drone Test
The Chino Police Department will put several drones over residential neighborhoods this Fourth of July and pair them with 65 officers dedicated to illegal fireworks enforcement, a sharp expansion of a program the city ran with a single aircraft a…
Sacramento Sheriff Used A $999 DJI Avata 2 To Disarm A Suspect, And The Politics Are Sharper Than The Knife
A Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office pilot flew a consumer FPV drone into a garage, found a barricaded parolee holding a knife, and pulled the blade out of his hand with a magnet before any deputy stepped into the room. The…
TCSO Drones Will Answer 911 Calls Before Deputies Do
The Tulare County Sheriff’s Office is about to get its own fleet of 911 response drones. The county is finalizing a deal with Motorola Solutions to run a Drone as First Responder program built on BRINC hardware, the same setup…
DJI Pulls the Matrice 4D’s C6 Compliance Off the Dock, Handing STS-02 Operators a Cheaper Path to BVLOS
DJI has extended the existing C6 class certification on its Matrice 4D Series to cover standalone flights with the DJI RC Plus 2 Enterprise controller, removing the requirement that the aircraft launch from a DJI Dock 3 to fly compliant…
Oakland Sheriff Drones, K-9 Find Missing Holly Toddler Safe
A Holly homeowner’s doorbell camera caught an 18-month-old boy walking alone past the 500 block of Elm Street at 11:54 a.m. on June 19, and within minutes Holly Police had Oakland County Sheriff’s Office drones and a K-9 team in…
Normal Police Add Flock DFR to Six-Drone Fleet
The Normal Police Department will add a Flock Drone as First Responder unit to its existing six-drone fleet under a one-year pilot, after the Town of Normal Council approved the $50,000 purchase at its June 15 meeting. The seventh aircraft…
FAA Blew Past Its Own Part 108 Deadline, and the Fight Over Who Yields in the Sky Is Why
The headline you keep reading is that drone pilots will fly beyond visual line of sight “within a year or so.” That framing is already out of date. The deadline for a final Part 108 rule was February 1, 2026,…
Port St. Lucie Skydio X10 Saves Life On Day One
Port St. Lucie’s police department flipped the switch on its new Drone as First Responder program on June 11, and the system did not wait long to prove itself. Within hours, a remotely launched drone located a missing autistic woman…
DJI Police Drone Found a Dog Stranded on an Oregon Cliff
A dog got spooked on a hike at Ecola State Park, bolted, and vanished for nearly two hours. When searchers finally spotted it, the animal was stranded about 100 feet down a steep Oregon cliff, in a spot no person…
Cathedral City Drones Hit 90% Coverage on DJI Hardware
Cathedral City Police now cover roughly 90 percent of the city from three rooftop drone docks, and they did it on DJI hardware while half the country is being told to rip Chinese drones off the roof. The department has…