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Dolomites Parks Ban Hobby Drones, DJI Mini 5 Pro Included
Dolomites drone rules for the DJI Mini 5 Pro and Mavic 4 Pro: which parks ban flights, what Italy requires by weight class, and where you can still fly.
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DJI
DJI Spinoff Livox Halves Point Rate to Cut Robot LiDAR Cost
Livox's Mid-360L halves the Mid-360's point rate and trades 15° of vertical view for a cheaper robot LiDAR. Livox has not published a price.
Europe
ABZ Opens Hungary Drone Plant, Its FCC Pass Hinges on a US Factory
ABZ Innovation opened a €7M drone factory in Hungary and says US production starts next year. Its FCC exemption for the L50 sprayer rides on that plan.
Department of Defense
Air Force Loses Shahed Clone Off Eglin, Fishing Charter Reels It In
A Pensacola charter hauled a US Air Force Shahed-136 clone out of the Gulf near Eglin. The base confirms a test article went down but won't name it.
Amazon
Amazon Wants Drones Over 6 Massachusetts Towns. Not All Have Been Told
Amazon wants a Westborough, Mass., drone pad serving six towns within 7.5 miles. Shrewsbury heard via police, Southborough not at all. Forum Sept. 23.
Amazon
Amazon Drones Overwhelm Texas Suburb, NYT Says. FAA Signed Off In July
The New York Times counted 52 Amazon drones over one Richardson yard in a day. The FAA ruled that noise not significant in July. Here is the paper trail.
FPV
Ben Biggs Built The 626 km/h Blackbird On 14-Cell Packs Few Pilots Use
Benjamin Biggs has published the full build story of the Blackbird drone that took the Guinness quadcopter speed record at 626 km/h in December 2025.
Drone Delivery
Belvedere Puts Drone Delivery on the Books Before Wing Names a City
A 2,126-person Marin town voted 3-2 to regulate where delivery drones land, stage and drop packages. The only fight was over the hours.
FPV
Quadmovr Flies A Drone On 3D Printed Impellers Instead Of Propellers
FPV builder quadmovr flew a quad on four PETG centrifugal impellers straight off the print bed. The files are free on MakerWorld, and a racer already flew them.
Police
Cleveland Police Drone Policy Bans What Ohio's New Law Still Allows
Ohio's HB 251 police drone law starts Oct. 6. Cleveland's Skydio X10 rules already ban facial recognition, protest surveillance and all weapons.
Amazon
Amazon Wants 1,000 Drone Flights a Day in CT. Comments Close Oct. 1
Connecticut takes public comment on Amazon's North Haven drone hub until Oct. 1. The FAA filing asks for 1,000 MK30 flights a day, Amazon's usual ceiling.
Drone Delivery
Amazon Drones Drop Packages Where State Law Calls It a Crime
Ten states restrict dropping objects from aircraft more tightly than the FAA. Amazon's MK30 is the only delivery drone that releases packages in flight.
Industry
Army Has 40,000 Drones and Too Few Pilots. FAA Data Shows Why
The Army has drones for every squad but too few trained pilots. FAA data shows the hobbyist pipeline that produces them has been shrinking since 2023.
DJI
DJI Neo 3 Box Lists Nine Items. The Neo 2's Transceiver Isn't One
New DJI Neo 3 box photos show a Fly More Combo with no Digital Transceiver and China's new Remote ID standards, shot beside a Neo 2 display in a store.
Amazon
Amazon Plans Portland Drone Hub in a State That Fought FAA Review
Amazon asked Portland, Oregon to review a Prime Air drone hub at its Schmeer Road warehouse for early 2027, under a national FAA review Oregon's AG fought.
DJI
DJI Avata 360 After 3 Months: The Best and Worst of Flying 360
Pilot Institute spent three months flying and editing the DJI Avata 360. Here is what is great, what is frustrating, and who DJI's first 360 drone is really for.
Ukraine
Ukraine's SBU Films First Jet Shahed Kill, Won't Name the Interceptor
Zelensky released the first video of a jet-powered Shahed downed by a Ukrainian interceptor drone. Kyiv is withholding the maker, cost and kill count.
Department of Defense
Neros Makes Both Pentagon Gauntlet II Boards As Skycutter Falls To 4th
Neros is the only company on both Gauntlet II leaderboards, Perennial Autonomy wins deep strike, and March champion Skycutter drops to fourth.
Police
Boston Police Drone Wrecks a Parked Car Six Days Into Its DFR Pilot
A BRINC Responder flown by Boston police fell onto a Mazda in Brighton on September 3, less than a week after BPD sold the program on safety.
Counter-Drone
UK Bases Logged 340 Drone Incidents in a Year. The MoD Names Nobody
MoD figures show 340 drone incidents at British military sites in a year, up from 126 in 2024. The ministry credits better detection and names no culprit.
Drone Incidents
NASA Kennedy Drone Case: Chinese Tourist Pleads Guilty, Faces a Year
Xiaodong He pleaded guilty over a 12-minute drone flight near Kennedy Space Center. Two earlier cases show what sentencing could look like.
Technology
NATO-Backed Drone Picked Its Own Target And Dropped A Bomb
Scaleout's onboard AI picked an armored vehicle out of a Swedish test range and struck it with no direct human command. Geneva is still arguing.
Drone Delivery
Upstate Medical Hires FAA Veteran Behind The First BVLOS Approvals
Upstate Medical named Cliff Sweatte director of UAS operations, months after an FAA waiver opened 50 miles of Central New York airspace to its drones.
Technology
Joby Flew 3,199 Miles With Zero Pilot Input, in a Cessna Caravan
Joby flew a converted Cessna Caravan 3,199 miles across the US with zero pilot inputs, supervised remotely from California and Shaw Air Force Base.
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