Flyde Beluga
Flyde Starts $57 Drone Delivery to French Riviera Yachts on August 1
Flyde will launch drone deliveries from Port Gallice to yachts anchored off the French Riviera on August 1, carrying up to 17.6 pounds by winch for $57 per flight.
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DJI Avata 2 Guides Escaped Angus Bull Out of I-40 Ravine
A DJI Avata 2 helped Foothills Aerial Services guide an escaped Angus bull out of a kudzu-covered ravine near Interstate 40 in Iredell County, North Carolina.
DJI
DJI Osmo Pocket 4 And 4P Are Both On Amazon In The US, At Prices DJI Never Set
The Pocket 4 sits at $689 and the 4P at $980 on Amazon US, above DJI's global pricing. What the listings and the seller ratings actually show.
Part 135
DoorDash Just Became An Airline, And The Video Shows A Bigger Drone Than It Will Admit
DoorDash earned FAA Part 135 certification and launched DoorDash Air. The company says aircraft details come later, but its own video already shows the airframe and the propulsion testing.
Flytrex
Flytrex Handed Order Routing To Nash, And The Drone Became One Lane Among Many
Flytrex integrated Nash's routing engine across all its Dallas-Fort Worth sites. Nash now decides which orders fly and which go to a human courier.
ACUA Ocean
ACUA Ocean's Crewless Boat Flies Its Own Drone
ACUA Ocean and Teledyne FLIR Defense demonstrated a tethered SkyRanger R70 launching autonomously from the Pioneer uncrewed vessel for persistent maritime surveillance.
Skyeton
Skyeton Brings Ukrainian Drone Factory To Fayetteville
Ukrainian-born drone maker Skyeton will build Raybird reconnaissance aircraft at a 28,500-square-foot Fayetteville facility, creating 162 jobs with an average annual salary of $70,759.
Drone Delivery
Wing Launches Walmart Drone Delivery In Orlando, Two Years After DroneUp Quit Florida
Wing opened its first Florida market with Walmart in Greater Orlando today, in a state where Walmart's previous drone delivery program shut down in 2024 when the economics stopped working.
TP200
China's TP200 Drone Flies 24 Hours Fully Loaded
China's TP200 fixed-wing drone completed its maiden flight with a design target of more than 24 hours of endurance at full load, a 440-pound payload, and a 1,860-mile range.
Open Source
DJI Metadata Embedder Turns Your Flight Folders Into The Maps DJI Never Built
A security architect built a free, open-source tool that turns DJI telemetry into 3D flight maps, geotagged videos, and sun-position footage verification. Then he asked DroneXL what to build next.
Freefly
Freefly Flies Ama Dablam After Nepal Blocked Everest Bid
Freefly's Alta X Gen 2 completed high-altitude cargo flights on Ama Dablam after Nepal denied its Everest test permit, highlighting the regulatory asymmetry with DJI's quickly reinstated FlyCart 100.
School Safety
Pepper-Spray School Drones Go Live In Nine Schools Across Three States
Mithril Defense's Campus Guardian Angel drones arrive in nine schools in Florida, Georgia, and Colorado this fall, and Florida has already approved year-two funding before a single real-world activation.
Counter-UAS
EU Drone Wall Still Doesn't Exist 10 Months After Von Der Leyen Promised It
Ten months after Ursula von der Leyen called for a European drone wall, drone warfare analyst Ulrike Franke finds the EU's counter-drone defenses largely missing in action, while Poland builds Europe's largest system on its own and incursions keep injuring civilians on NATO soil.
Counter-Drone
Quantum Cyber Builds First Interceptor Drone, Four Months After It Was a Cancer Test Company
Quantum Cyber built its first interceptor drone in Bridgeport, CT. In February the Nasdaq company was Mainz Biomed, selling cancer tests.
Search & Rescue
Paws Patrol LV Gets Two Thermal Drones After Sky Knockdown
A Montana hotel owner donated two thermal drones to Paws Patrol LV after people in a Las Vegas wash knocked the animal rescue group's $7,000 drone out of the sky during a search for an injured dog. The dog remains missing.
Energy Warfare
Drones Repriced Global Energy And The Math Favors The Attacker
A $20,000 drone against a $4 million interceptor: how strikes on refineries and tankers pushed oil past $100 and made drone defense an energy policy problem.
Industry
CiS ORKA Dock Demand Outruns The 30-Person German Factory Behind The Moving-Deck Drone First
German drone maker CiS says European demand for its ORKA Dock and drone now exceeds what its 30-person Rostock factory can build.
Police Drones
NYPD Drone Tracks Subway Surfers, Five Teens Arrested
An NYPD drone spotted six people riding atop a moving B train in Brooklyn, tracked them from the air, and guided officers to arrest five teenagers. Police also recovered six stolen MTA keys from a 14-year-old suspect.
Zipline
Zipline Walmart Drone Parachutes Into Greenville, Texas Street, Landing Feet From A Parked Truck
A Zipline delivery drone flying for Walmart deployed its emergency parachute over a Greenville, Texas neighborhood on Sunday, July 26, and drifted down onto a residential street near Roy Warren Parkway and Joe Ramsey Boulevard, coming to rest about three feet from a parked pickup truck. Nobody was hurt, and a Walmart employee showed up quickly…
Leak
DJI Matrice 5 Leak Shows Integrated LiDAR And Five-Window Gimbal On Next Enterprise Flagship
Leaked photos from Igor Bogdanov show a purported DJI Matrice 5 with what appears to be built-in LiDAR, RTK, and a five-window gimbal with laser rangefinder.
FPV
Formula 1 Fans Are Split On FPV Drone Shots, And They Accidentally Wrote The Fix
Formula 1 fans are not sold on FPV drone footage, and the most detailed public referendum on it is happening on Reddit. After the Austrian Grand Prix put drone shots at the center of a race broadcast, a thread on r/formula1 filled with responses that split between viewers who called the footage the first time they ever felt the cars' speed and viewers who said it made them physically nauseous…
FPV
Formula 1 Flies Its Drone Under The Sponsor Bridge At Hungarian GP And Nobody Blinked
Formula 1 used drone footage more aggressively, and more creatively, in today's Hungarian Grand Prix broadcast than in any race I have watched this season. Watching the Apple TV feed on Sunday, July 26, I counted drone angles woven into the live coverage from lap 3 onward, and two of them stopped me cold…
Deal
DJI Mini 5 Pro Drops To $683 At Amazon, Its Lowest Price Yet
The DJI Mini 5 Pro just dropped to $683 at Amazon, its lowest price yet. What the 1-inch sensor drone offers, and the 250-gram catch.
Department of Defense
Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Will Build A “Great Factory” In The U.S. The First One Already Has An Ohio Address
Zelenskyy told Laura Loomer that U.S.-Ukraine drone cooperation will include a factory on American soil, days before he meets Trump. F-Drones already broke ground in Ohio, and the export deal behind the announcement still rests on anonymous sources.
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