Lawsuits, bans, privacy fights, and the case law being written around drones.
China's new "scan-and-fly" WeChat app fast-tracks drone flights in Shanghai and Sichuan, even as Beijing keeps a near-total ban squeezing DJI at home.
Munich Airport went dark again on Saturday morning. Shortly after 9 a.m. local time, two pilots reported a possible drone near the airfield, and German air traffic control shut the runways down cold. Flights resumed about an hour later, but the day was already wrecked: 33 cancellations and 114 delays rolling well into the afternoon.…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on May 28 published the actual venue list, dates, and airspace dimensions for its FIFA World Cup 2026 flight restrictions, turning a months-old “No Drone Zone” messaging campaign into a concrete schedule that pilots can now check against their own calendars. Eleven U.S. stadiums get the largest treatment: a three-nautical-mile…
A post claiming to show an AI-controlled drone armed with a CO2 BB gun that autonomously shoots squirrels has pulled in more than 590,000 views on X this week, and almost every law it touches points the same direction: this is illegal for any civilian to operate in the United States. The account, a self-described…
The New York City Police Department now has trained officers and certified equipment to electronically disable hostile drones in city airspace, a capability reserved until December for a small group of federal agencies. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed the department spent $6.5 million on drone mitigation gear at a May 21 press conference at One…
Russ from 51 Drones breaks down where local drone bans stop and FAA airspace authority begins, with real examples from NYC, Lakewood, and Lakeville.
Michigan House passed just 2 of 15 SHIELD drone bills, both restricting state purchases of Chinese-made drones. The other 13 stay behind.
A Detroit-based drone company just turned a very mundane problem into a surprisingly sophisticated aerospace application. Birdstop has deployed autonomous drones at two commercial truck parking sites in Detroit, using AI and computer vision to give drivers real-time visibility into which spots are open, as reported by Traffic Technology Today. It’s a pilot program. It’s…
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