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Drone News – Tue June 9, 2020
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…
Booz Allen Hamilton finds no unauthorized data transfer from DJI drones
A study from Booz Allen Hamilton in partnership with PrecisionHawk concludes there has not been any unauthorized data transfer from DJI drones, that were previously used by the US government, to the Chinese drone maker or government. You can download…
DJI’s ‘Game of Drones’ culture threatens to break up the drone maker
Against a background of growing distrust of China in the United States, DJI is under significant pressure from the Federal Government that questions the company’s intentions and alleges that its drones spy for the Chinese government. The intensifying focus on…
DJI’s Brendan Schulman talks about drones, DJI, China, data security in this must-listen podcast
In this podcast, Brendan Schulman, Vice President of Policy and Legal Affairs at DJI, talks about drones, the history of DJI, China, data security, regulatory challenges, and a host of other issues. If you are active in the drone industry…
U.S. Department of Transportation announces technology partners for Remote ID development
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced the eight companies that will assist the Federal government in establishing requirements for future suppliers of Remote Identification (Remote ID). Remote ID will enable Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly…
Town’s ban of drones flying over chicken processing complex is questioned
The Wilkesboro Town Council introduced a resolution that temporarily bans drones from flying over the Tyson Foods Inc. chicken processing complex in Wilkesboro, NC. The legality of the resolution is being questioned by commercial drone pilot Vic Moss and his…
NYPD seizes George Steinmetz’s DJI Mavic 2 Pro after Hart Island photo
By now, many people will have seen drone videos or photos of the mass burials of unclaimed COVID-19 victims at Hart Island in New York. We reported on that about a week ago, but so did many other news outlets.…
World’s first documented drone delivery of insulin happened in Ireland
The international medical team that accomplished the world’s first documented drone delivery of insulin for a patient living in a remote community described the project in an ENDO 2020 abstract that will be published in the Journal of the Endocrine…
Aha delivers coffee by drone in Reykjavik, Iceland
The WSJ had a great article [paywall] about deliveries by drones last week. It covers Wing Aviation, Amazon, DJI, UPS, Flytrex and the lesser-known company, and a subsidiary from Flytrex, Aha that delivers coffee by drone in Iceland. Here are…
Remote ID, Drone-to-Phone and Pilot Location – DJI Explains
One of the most debated topics of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) NPRM for Remote ID for Drones is the pilot’s location. DJI recently posted this video on YouTube (see below) explaining how remote identification for unmanned aerial systems (UAS)…