Skydio
Flock Safety Pushes Alpha Camera As The Sensor Arms Race In Police Drones Heats Up
Flock Safety's new Alpha campaign sells the drone's camera: 2,000-foot plate reads, best-in-class thermal, and the most powerful zoom in DFR.
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GoPro Mission 1 Pro vs DJI Osmo Action 6: The Ways DJI Still Wins
I put the GoPro Mission 1 Pro head-to-head with the DJI Osmo Action 6, comparing 8K image quality, audio, slow motion, battery, and price to find the winner.
North Dakota
North Dakota Cuts BVLOS Waivers From Years to 23 Days
Getting a beyond-visual-line-of-sight waiver from the FAA has long meant waiting years and hiring lawyers. North Dakota just made it take 23 business days. The state’s Vantis network, the first statewide BVLOS system in the country, has turned the biggest bottleneck in commercial drone work into something close to routine. If you fly drones for…
China
China Claims a Drone Swarm That Hunts Through Jamming
A Chinese research team of the Northwestern Polytechnical University says it has built a drone swarm that keeps hunting even after you jam its radios and blind its cameras. Their paper, published in China’s top aeronautics journal, claims a 100% kill rate in simulation. That number deserves heavy skepticism. But the method behind it, an…
Drone Light Show
Vivid Sydney Cancels All Drone Shows After Crash
Vivid Sydney just pulled the plug on every drone show left in its lineup. The trigger came Monday night, when roughly 89 drones dropped out of the sky during the festival’s Star-Bound performance at Cockle Bay. Eighty-three of them hit the water of Darling Harbour, six more came down on the boardwalk, and nobody was…
DJI
Lexar Professional Silver Plus 1TB Review: The microSD Card That Lives in My Drone Now
Hands-on Lexar Silver Plus 1TB review: full specs, DJI Mini 5 Pro and Antigravity A1 compatibility, real-world value, and why it lives in my drone for months.
Zipline
Zipline Bets Nigeria Becomes Its Biggest African Market With 12 New Drone Hubs By 2028
Zipline plans 12 new Nigeria drone hubs by 2028 to reach 100 million people, but its paused Kaduna operation shows the political risk underneath.
Skydio
Motorola Solutions Buys D-Fend For $1.5 Billion, Turning Counter-Drone Takeover Tech Into A Public Safety Product
Motorola Solutions buys counter-drone firm D-Fend for $1.5B, adding RF drone-takeover tech as the Safer Skies Act opens the US market to police.
DJI
GoPro Mission 1 Pro Review: 61 Things You Need to Know After Two Months of Shooting
GoPro Mission 1 Pro review after two months of shooting: 1-inch sensor, 8K60, 960FPS slow-mo, improved low light, 20m depth rating, and full upgrade advice.
DJI
DJI Mimo Share Codes: How to Easily Share Your Color, Editing, and Settings With Others
Shawn from Air Photography walks through DJI Mimo's new share codes feature, showing how to save editing presets and share color grading across devices.
Canada
DJI Lito X1 Review After 30 Days: An Affordable Drone Packed With Advanced Features
After 30 days flying the DJI Lito X1, Shawn from Air Photography breaks down its LiDAR avoidance, 4K video, ActiveTrack 360, and sub-250g advantages.
DJI
DJI Lito Return to Home Explained: When to Use Optimal vs. Preset
Shawn from Air Photography demonstrates the DJI Lito's two Return to Home modes — Optimal vs. Preset — and explains when to use each for safer flights.
DJI
DJI Neo 2: Six Quick Tips To Get Better Video Out Of This Little Drone
In this one I’m going to cover six things to get the most out of this amazing little drone, the DJI Neo 2. We’re going to talk about obstacle avoidance settings, a quick way to fix your video footage right out of the drone, the best expo and gimbal settings, and we’re going to dive…
Police
Munich Airport Shut Down By Drones, Again
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.…
Department of Defense
Zelenskyy Tells Face the Nation the U.S. Drone Deal Still Needs One Thing: Trump to Say Yes
The framework drone agreement that Ukraine has been pushing Washington to sign for nearly a year is still unsigned, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy used a national U.S. broadcast to say exactly what is holding it up. In an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation that aired Sunday, the Ukrainian president said his country and the United…
FAA
FAA Publishes World Cup TFR Venue List, And Part 107 Authorizations Stop At The Stadium Ring
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…
Wingtra
AI Drones Give 5-Week Warning on Vibrio Outbreaks
Showing that AI drone, trained on environmental and microbiome data, can predict the appearance of Vibrio vulnificus in Baltic Sea coastal waters
DJI
Minneapolis Studies DFR Pilot in North Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Police Department presented an exploratory proposal to the city council’s Public Health, Safety and Equity Committee in May 2026 to launch a Drones as First Responders pilot program. The pilot would deploy two drones, marked as police vehicles with red and blue lights, out of Fire Station 14 in the Fourth Precinct on…
DJI
Palm Desert Eyes Police DJI Drones Amid Privacy Questions
Palm Desert is the latest Coachella Valley community where police drones are moving from “something other cities do” to “something coming here,” and a local NBC Palm Springs commentary framed the arrival with the question every city eventually has to answer: smart safety tool, or one more eye in the sky? That’s the right question,…
First Responders
Palm Beach Fire Rescue Adds Drones for Hurricane Season
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue announced this week that it has stood up a dedicated drone fleet for disaster response, with hurricane season starting June 1, 2026. The agency is flying the Skydio X10, the American-made autonomous platform that has become the default choice for public safety agencies operating under Florida’s restrictions on Chinese-manufactured drones.…
Walmart
Walmart Hits 1M Drone Deliveries, 40% This Quarter
Walmart announced on May 29, 2026 that it has crossed the 1 million drone delivery mark across its U.S. operations. The headline number is the kind of thing every press release reaches for, but the line buried in the announcement is the one I want to focus on. 40% of that million happened in a…
Drone as First Responder
Basalt PD Pitches $50K Drone Stations to Council
Basalt, Colorado is the latest mountain town to look at the Drone-as-First-Responder model, and the price tag they’re putting on the table tells you exactly where this category has settled. Chief Aaron Munch presented to the Basalt Town Council on May 27, 2026, asking them to consider roughly $50,000 per drone and docking station, plus…
Drone Research
Bat-Inspired Drone Navigates Smoke, Snow, Darkness
A team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute just pulled off something that sounds simple until you actually think about what cameras and lidar can’t do. They built a palm-sized quadrotor that flies by listening, the same way a bat does, and they got it to dodge obstacles in fog, snow, and pitch darkness with a success…
Skydio
Lee County Deploys Skydio X10 for Sterile Mosquito Releases
Lee County Mosquito Control District made history this week as the first in the United States to release sterile mosquitoes using a drone. They flew a Skydio X10 over targeted neighborhoods in Fort Myers to deliver thousands of lab-reared, sterilized male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The goal is straightforward. Reduce the population of this invasive, disease-carrying…
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