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Amazon Prime Air Targets Metro Atlanta As Walmart And Wing Already Own Georgia Skies
Amazon confirms Prime Air drone delivery exploration in metro Atlanta as Walmart's Wing drones already serve six Georgia suburbs from a five-month lead.
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Amazon Prime Air Targets Central New York With 176-Square-Mile Drone Delivery Zone Around Clay
Amazon Prime Air plans a 176-square-mile drone delivery zone from Clay, NY, its first Northeast operation. FAA and Clay Planning Board approvals pending.
Amazon
Amazon Begins First UK Drone Deliveries In Darlington Under A Trial-Only Approval
Amazon Prime Air begins first UK drone deliveries in Darlington under a CAA trial: 100-package daily cap, half the flight rate originally pledged.
DJI
How to Pair DJI Mic Mini 2, Mic 2, and Mic 3 to the DJI Mobile Receiver
Learn how to pair the DJI Mic Mini 2, Mic 3, and Mic 2 to the DJI mobile receiver using green and blue pairing modes, plus a bonus Mic 3 case tip.
FAA
Grilling Greg: Your Toughest Drone Registration, Airspace, and Part 107 Questions Answered
Greg from Pilot Institute answers real-time questions on FAA drone registration, flying over people, Part 107 requirements, filming private property, and drone career opportunities.
Search & Rescue
Could This Be What Saves DJI in the United States? The FCC Is Now Accepting Public Comments
The FCC is accepting public comments on DJI's covered entity list status until May 11, 2026. Here's why your voice matters — and the economic numbers to use. (~154 chars)
NASA
An-28 Skydiving Plane Has 222 Drone Kills. The New York Times Just Filmed Inside It.
The New York Times rode along with a Ukrainian An-28 crew firing a Minigun at Russian Shaheds for $500 a kill. The same plane has 222 confirmed kills.
Legal
DJI And Autel Petitions Hit FCC’s May 11 Comment Deadline As Drone Operators Push For Covered List Reversal
The FCC's reply comment window on DJI's and Autel's Covered List petitions closes Monday, May 11. How to file in dockets 26-22 and 26-23.
Anduril
Titan Batteries Opens UAV Pack Line At Bosch Site In Tilburg As Europe’s Drone Buildout Reaches The Battery Layer
Titan Batteries opened a UAV pack line at Bosch's Tilburg campus on May 2, claiming first drone battery production on two continents.
DJI
DJI Osmo Mobile 8P Launches Globally With FrameTap Remote, Skips U.S. Market Again
DJI launched the Osmo Mobile 8P globally on May 7 with the FrameTap detachable remote. Starting at €159. No U.S. sale due to FCC Covered List restrictions.
FAA
K-State Salina Trains Kansas Farmers to Fly Spray Drones
Kansas State University Salina is putting agricultural drone spray operations directly in farmers’ hands. The university’s UAS program is offering a two-day in-person course covering everything from regulatory compliance to live spray missions, with the next session scheduled for May 28-29, as KSAL reported. What the Course Actually Covers The course is called UAS Aerial…
Counter-Drone
Canadian Military Activates Counter-Drone Defenses At Naval Bases, Wrestles With Halifax Harbor Identification Problem
Canada's military has activated counter-drone systems at naval bases, but Halifax Harbor exposes the hard problem: telling hostile drones from civilian ones.
United States
New DIRT Program Trains Personnel on Grounded Drones
DIRT picks up where that training ends. A drone that has crashed, been shot down, been abandoned, or been found near sensitive infrastructure
Ukraine
Big Red One Tests OWS Drones for Anti-Armor Missions
Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division’s engineer battalion at Fort Riley, Kansas, spent the last week of April launching one-way strike drones in a series of live experimentation events with a small defense contractor, as DVIDS reported. The exercise has a name: the Diehard One-Way Strike Drone Experimentation Series. The mission concept it’s testing is…
United States
Missouri Drone Corridor Aims to Save Transplant Time
A small startup in Rolla, Missouri is building what may be the nation’s first rural health care drone corridor, and the clock it’s racing isn’t measured in minutes. It’s measured in whether an organ donor’s tissue reaches a matching recipient in time to save a life, as FOX News reported. The Problem No One Talks…
Avy
Europe Gets Its First Military Drone Marketplace
European defense ministries now have a single platform to browse, compare, and deploy drones from across the continent, as reported by Agence Europe. Amsterdam-based Intelic launched BASE on May 4, describing it as the first procurement hub of its kind in Europe and the answer to a fragmentation problem that’s been slowing European rearmament since…
Department of Defense
Navy Picks Insitu’s ScanEagle and Integrator for ISR
The U.S. Navy has selected Insitu to continue providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services to the Navy, Marine Corps, and other federal customers, as Sea Power Magazine reported. The award covers both the ScanEagle and Integrator platforms under a Contractor-Owned, Contractor-Operated model, which puts Insitu’s own aircraft and operators on the mission rather than handing…
Skydio
Leander Tests Skydio Drones on Live 911 Calls
Leander, Texas, is putting two Skydio drones on actual 911 calls for two weeks to decide whether the city needs a permanent Drone as First Responder program, as CBS Austin reported. The trial runs May 4-15 and deploys the aircraft to real incidents, not simulations. A Fast-Growing City With a Response Problem Leander isn’t a…
Lockheed Martin
Northrop Beats Lockheed to Guard Army Helicopter Fleet
The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a Phase II contract to advance its Improved Threat Detection System, as reported on a press release. The award, following a competitive Phase I that included Lockheed Martin, puts Northrop’s ATHENA sensor on track to replace the aging warning systems currently protecting Army aviation. Why the Army Needs…
Skydio
Olathe Drone Ordinance Pulled, and the ICE NOTAM Shows Why Pilots Have to Fight at Every Level
Olathe pulled its drone ordinance. The FAA pulled the ICE NOTAM. The fight for US drone pilots' rights spans every level of government now.
Drone Research
Purdue Bets Big on AI to Automate the Skies
Purdue University just put its full weight behind a future where one drone pilot coordinates dozens of aircraft at once. The Indiana research powerhouse is expanding a cluster of AI and autonomy programs that could fundamentally reshape how drones operate at scale. Building the Brain for Autonomous Flight The centerpiece of Purdue’s effort is AIDA3,…
FAA
FAA Drops Section 2209 NPRM After Decade-Long Wait, Industry Has 60 Days To Shape The Rule
The FAA's long-awaited Section 2209 NPRM proposes a new 14 CFR Part 74 framework with two designation tiers for restricting drones over fixed-site facilities.
Skydio
NC Guard and UK Forces Train Together on Drone Integration
The point was not to have drone operators train drone operators. It was to force combined arms units to work with aerial intelligence in real time
Department of Homeland Security
Coast Guard Deploys Saildrone Vessels on Great Lakes This Summer
The U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes District is putting autonomous sail drones on the water starting this month. Running from May through October 2026, these uncrewed surface vehicles will patrol all five Great Lakes as part of a contract focused on maritime domain awareness, as reported by MLive. The mission: monitor vessel traffic, gather weather…
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