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China’s HH-200 Cargo Drone Flies First Mission with 1.5-Ton Load
China just put another piece of its low-altitude cargo strategy in the air. The HH-200, a twin-engine unmanned freighter built by AVIC Xi’an Aircraft Industry Group, completed its maiden flight on April 15 at Pucheng, in Shaanxi Province, as Defense…
Tom Stanton Builds A 3D Printed Windup Plane That Flies 45 Seconds On A 4 Second Charge
British engineer Tom Stanton has built a 15.6 gram 3D printed plane powered by a single 10 farad supercapacitor, demonstrating a hand crank charging system that produces a 45 second flight from roughly 4 seconds of winding. The project, documented…
Okanagan Lake DJI Drone Pilot Fined CAD $5,000 After Helicopter Pilot Broke Off Firefighting to Chase Him
A British Columbia court has ordered Kelowna realtor Derek Leippi to pay a CAD $5,000 fine (roughly USD $3,600) for flying a DJI drone from a boat on Okanagan Lake during the 2023 McDougall Creek wildfire, an incident that pulled…
Hyfix Raised $15M to Out-Engineer DJI. Now Comes the Hard Part
A Santa Clara startup called Hyfix Spatial Intelligence just pulled in $15 million to build an American-designed system-on-a-chip that folds flight control, high-precision positioning, secure communications, and onboard compute into a single piece of U.S.-manufactured silicon. Craft Ventures led the…
DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Creator Combo Unboxing: What You Get in the Box
Good day folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. In this video, we’re going to do a quick unboxing of the brand new DJI Osmo Pocket 4. This is the Creator Combo, and it’s got some nice new features and upgrades,…
Pentagon Urges FCC to Reject DJI’s Petition: What This Means for Drone Pilots
So, let me get this straight, and you tell me if I’m way off here, but DJI drones are dangerous enough to block future models, but not dangerous enough to ban the estimated 2 million that are flying around in…
Cam Mackey Ties DJI Pocket 4 US Absence To Political Money And Defense Investments
YouTube creator Cam Mackey published a video this week arguing that the DJI Osmo Pocket 4‘s absence from the US market has less to do with national security and more to do with campaign money, political connections, and family investments…
Skydio’s $9M USAFCENT Deal Puts X10s on Middle East Bases
Skydio just landed the kind of contract that separates a public safety drone company from a defense contractor. U.S. Air Forces Central, the USAFCENT component of U.S. Central Command, awarded the San Mateo, California company an order exceeding $9 million…
FAA Replaces Controversial ICE NOTAM, Pentagon Cites Classified Intel Against DJI, and DJI Teases New Lido Drone
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. The FAA publishes a new NOTAM to replace the controversial ICE NOTAM — interesting stuff there. The Pentagon cites classified intelligence to oppose DJI’s FCC…
DJI Osmo Pocket 4P Leaks: Dual-Lens Pro Model Next
The ink isn’t dry on the standard Osmo Pocket 4 announcement and DJI already has another one lined up. Photo Rumors is reporting that a Pocket 4P, the Professional variant, is queued up for a summer launch with a dual-lens…
DJI Avata 360 vs Antigravity A1: Jeven Dovey Calls The 360 Drone Contest Closer Than DJI’s Price Tag Suggests
YouTuber Jeven Dovey flew both the DJI Avata 360 and the Antigravity A1 back to back and came away without a clean winner. His comparison video, published this week, pits the two 360-degree drones against each other on flight handling,…
How to Pair Goggles and Controllers to the DJI Avata 360
Good day folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. Just a quick little video for you today. I’m going to demonstrate how to pair goggles to the new DJI Avata 360. Why You May Need to Manually Pair Your Gear If…
Flock’s Jail Drone Wants to Expand to 19 County-Wide
NPR caught up with the Fulton County Jail drone story this week, three weeks after we covered the original Flock Safety deployment in detail. The national coverage matters because it surfaces two details that weren’t in the March announcement: Sheriff…
Oakland Taps DJI Mavic 3 Drones to Fight Illegal Dumping
Oakland is about to become the second U.S. city to run a DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise on AI-powered garbage patrol. The city council is moving forward with a six-month, $150,000 pilot contract with San Francisco startup Aerbits, which will fly…
GoPro Unveils Mission One Lineup: 8K Recording, Micro Four Thirds Support, and the End of the Hero Era
DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Review: Why This Isn’t Just a Small Upgrade Over the Pocket 3
So, this is the new DJI Osmo Pocket 4. And I’ll say it straight away, this is not a small incremental update over the Pocket 3. On paper, it might seem like it — similar size, still a 1-inch sensor…
DJI Pocket 4 First Look: 1-Inch Sensor, 4K/240fps, and Everything New
Good day, folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. Today, DJI has launched an updated version in the Pocket series, now called the Pocket 4. A lot of people have been waiting for this, as the Pocket 3 is going on…
The $209 DJI Mini 4K Is the Best Starter Drone Right Now
The DJI Mini 4K just dropped to $209 on Amazon thanks to a clippable on-page coupon. That’s 30% off the regular $299 price tag and the lowest this drone has ever been. If you’ve been thinking about getting into drones…
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