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Good day folks, Shawn here from Air Photography. This is my beginner’s guide for the brand new Insta360 Luna Ultra. If you’ve never used a camera like this before, or perhaps you’re coming from a more traditional action camera, I’m going to go over everything you need to know about it, how to use it,…
Upside Down Labs, the open-source biosensing company, built a real-time brain-computer interface that flies a Ryze Tello using signals read straight off the human body. The system pulls EEG brain activity, EMG muscle activity, and EOG eye movement through the company’s Neuro PlayGround Lite board, converts them into flight commands, and sends them to the…
Chief Jon Buckholtz announced the rollout at a press conference, confirming that the Conroe City Council authorized the purchase of two Skydio X10 drones and two docking stations in December 2025 using asset forfeiture funds. "We purchased this with money that was seized from criminals, in order to fight criminals," Buckholtz said.
A Bell 407 helicopter near JFK reported a drone over Floyd Bennett Field. The pilot identified it as a model plane, and the FAA isn't investigating.
Filmmaker Philip Bloom has flagged a serious image-quality fault in the Insta360 Luna Ultra that the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 simply does not share: when the Luna runs in any auto-ISO mode, it boosts the image with digital gain and then scrubs the resulting noise with heavy noise reduction, leaving footage that turns to mush.…
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to the Defense Policy Board on Monday, June 29, 2026, placing the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz on the advisory panel that counsels the Pentagon’s top civilian leadership on force structure, modernization, and national security strategy. Andreessen joins as one of thirteen members named alongside chair…
America now has roughly four registered drones for every registered crewed aircraft, and a public safety official is warning that the country has no agreed system for deciding which one moves out of the way. In a piece published June 24 in Homeland Security Today, Charles Werner, director of the DRONERESPONDERS Public Safety Alliance, laid…
Marques Brownlee, the YouTube reviewer known as MKBHD, has published a sponsored video on the Antigravity A1, the 8K 360 drone co-engineered by Insta360, and his verdict lands somewhere most sponsored content never goes: he spent most of the runtime selling the experience, then closed by naming two things he would change. Brownlee called the…
Two rival drone delivery companies have spent a year running a working air traffic control system over North Texas suburbs with no humans brokering the traffic, and the headline number is genuinely impressive: zero airspace conflicts across roughly 8,000 overlapping flights. Flytrex and Wing coordinate their aircraft automatically in shared airspace above Little Elm and…
A JetBlue pilot told air traffic controllers his Airbus A321 collided with a drone at roughly 3,000 feet on final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport around 7:15 a.m. EDT on Monday, June 29. Flight 948 had flown overnight from Las Vegas and landed safely six minutes later at 7:21 a.m. A post-flight inspection…
The Department of Homeland Security wants to route its own money into the FBI’s counter-drone training center because demand for seats has outrun capacity in the middle of the FIFA World Cup, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told the House Appropriations Committee on June 26. The admission is the candid part of a hearing that was…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation published a warning on June 26 that armed police drones are no longer a hypothetical, and that the absence of any federal law governing when American law enforcement can deploy force from a drone has left the question to the companies selling the hardware. The digital rights group, which has argued…
Hundreds of drones lifted off above Charleston Harbor on Saturday night, retelling the Battle of Sullivan’s Island in light formations above the U.S. Custom House as part of the Revolutionary Skies celebration. The show capped a Carolina Day program organized by SC250 Charleston, the city’s coordinating body for South Carolina’s 250th anniversary commemorations, and ran…
Only one of DJI's Pocket 4, Pocket 4P, and Insta360's Luna Ultra is legal to buy in the US. Specs, the 32-bit float catch, and the patent fight, compared.
A US pilot says he saw an Iranian "jellyfish" drone swarm before ejecting. US intelligence isn't convinced, and a Chinese missile is the likelier cause.
Formula 1 ran FPV drone footage as a headline feature of its Austrian Grand Prix broadcast on Sunday, June 28, 2026, and the standout sequence put viewers directly above the early on-track fight between Lewis Hamilton in the Ferrari and Max Verstappen in the Red Bull at the Red Bull Ring. The shots aired live…
Airbus and Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed a memorandum of understanding on June 26 to develop an anti-submarine and maritime patrol version of the Eurodrone for the Japanese market. The deal is the first concrete export pull for a European medium-altitude long-endurance UAV that has not yet flown. Japan joined the broader Eurodrone program in November…
Cherry Valley Police Department in Illinois used a Skydio X10 with thermal imaging, a spotlight, and a speaker payload to locate and guide three stranded people out of the Kishwaukee River on the night of June 25, 2026. All three were unhurt when the Cherry Valley Fire Protection District took them to safety. The Winnebago…
At a GNC nutritional supplement warehouse in Whitestown, Indiana, four small drones fly overhead every day. They count more than 2,000 plastic-wrapped pallets nobody wanted to count by hand. The aircraft come from Corvus Robotics, a startup building autonomous indoor flyers tuned for warehouse inventory work. Since GNC brought the program online two years ago,…
A man wanted on felony warrants tried to vanish into a tall grass field in Eldora, Iowa on June 23, and a police drone with a thermal camera put him on the ground within minutes. The Eldora Police Department, the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office, and the State Center Police Department served a search warrant at…
The Aerial Evolution Association of Canada named Medicine Hat, Alberta as the host city for the 18th annual AEAC Student Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Competition, scheduled for May 14 to 16, 2027. The choice keeps the country’s top university and college drone competition in the same southeast Alberta corridor that hosted the 2025 edition. The 2027…
Arvada Police Department in Colorado used its new Skydio X10 Drone First Responder program on June 17, 2026 to track and arrest a shoplifting suspect who fled on foot from a Target store, the agency confirmed in a statement. The drone was already airborne when the call came in. A loss prevention officer at the…
Walmart is bringing drone delivery to Cincinnati through its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing, planting an autonomous grocery flight operation in the same metro that houses Kroger’s global headquarters. The Ohio launch is part of the 150-store Wing-Walmart rollout announced in January 2026. That January announcement named Cincinnati alongside Houston, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Miami and…
South Korea’s defense minister Ahn Gyu-back said Friday that every member of the country’s armed forces, roughly 500,000 personnel across the army, navy, air force and marines, will be trained to operate drones as a standard personal weapon. The announcement, delivered in Seoul on June 26, 2026, frames cheap quadcopters and loitering munitions as core…
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