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Drone Service Providers

Drone Pilots Who Don't Adapt Won't Last Two Years: A 90-Day Plan

Part 2 with Amy Wiegand: how drone service providers handle regulation they can't control, build a 30, 60, 90-day plan, and what will separate survivors.

Greg ReverdiauOct 13

Police

Flock Bets on Police Drones as San Francisco Weighs Drone Limits

Flock's CEO says drones will be nearly half its future revenue. San Francisco's Police Commission takes up its police drone rules on October 14.

Haye KestelooOct 13

Kyle Nordfors in a red Weber County Search and Rescue shirt holds a DJI Matrice 30T overhead with one arm against a blue sky, propellers spinning, as a second man watches from behind

Police

DJI Curbs Hit Police Budgets: $10,500 Matrice vs. $21,000 US Rival

One Ocean County, NJ sheriff's drone kit costs $29,428. NPR priced a US-made rival at twice DJI's Matrice 400, and sheriffs want an FCC exemption.

Haye KestelooOct 13

Close-up of the DJI Mini 5 Pro gimbal camera marked 1-inch, with forward vision sensors above it and Mini 5 Pro printed on the front arm

Deal

DJI Mini 5 Pro Stays at a Record-Low $679 After Prime Big Deal Days

The DJI Mini 5 Pro is $679 at Amazon, its lowest price yet. The cut landed with Prime Big Deal Days on October 6 and was still live October 12.

Haye KestelooOct 12

Brick facade of the Forbes Municipal Building at 45 West Main Street in Westborough, Massachusetts, with its name lettered on the corner and a flagpole to the left

Amazon

Amazon Drone Pad Appeal Set for Nov. 2 as Westborough Drafts Bylaw

Westborough's ZBA hears the appeal against Amazon's drone pad on Nov. 2. Town Meeting votes Oct. 19 on a drone bylaw whose text the warrant does not carry.

Haye KestelooOct 12

Gray Bayraktar TB2 drone with a guided bomb under its wing parked on a concrete apron under a blue sky

Drone Strike

Drug Traffickers Could Become Africa's Drone Arms Dealers, Paper Warns

Robi Sen warns drug traffickers could arm African groups with drones, but his paper calls its drugs-for-drones barter claim an unverified lead.

Haye KestelooOct 12

White Wing hybrid delivery drone with yellow wingtips carrying a blue Walmart package box, seen from below against a blue sky

Drone Delivery

Gastonia Tells Residents Why Walmart Drones Will Be Over Their Homes

Walmart finished a drone delivery site at its Gastonia, N.C., Supercenter. Drones will fly about 6 miles out, and the FAA allows 400 a day per hub.

Haye KestelooOct 12

Render of a black delta-wing drone with a rear propeller flying low over a desert mountain range

Europe

Harmattan AI's 2,000 km Drone Doesn't Need GPS, and Morocco Wants It

Harmattan AI says its IRIFI strike drone reaches 2,000 km without relying on GPS. A day later, Morocco signed a letter of intent to develop it locally.

Haye KestelooOct 12

A white DJI Phantom quadcopter hovers above the Hudson River in New York at dusk, with a pink and orange sunset glowing over the distant hills.

DJI Phantom 4 Pro

DJI Ends Phantom 4 Pro V2 Repairs Oct. 31 and Tells Owners to Buy New

DJI ends Phantom 4 Pro V2 service October 31 and Agras T16 and T20 service November 2, as the FCC weighs barring the spray drones that replace them.

Haye KestelooOct 12

Amazon Prime Air MK30 delivery drone hovering low over an open green field at sunset

Drone Delivery

DroneXL Adds 20 Drone Delivery Town Guides as Local Votes Pile Up

Twenty new DroneXL resident guides for towns facing drone delivery: who flies, who decides, what towns can still do, and eight dates before Nov. 10.

Haye KestelooOct 11

Black X-wing Seth X strike drone on a stand in a factory hall, with Ukrainian and German flags hanging behind it

Defense Tech

Airlogix Seeks $100M At $2B Valuation As Russia Bombs Its Factories

Ukraine's Airlogix is in talks to raise $100 million at over $2 billion, Forbes reports. The price rests on drone factories in Germany, Canada and the UK.

Haye KestelooOct 11

Zipline

Round Rock Says It Has No Zoning Rule for Zipline's Drone Hub

Zipline's Austin hub sits outside Round Rock city limits. The city says its zoning has no rule for drone hubs and will write one after a second opens.

Haye KestelooOct 11

Wing hybrid delivery drones flying in formation against an orange sunset sky, the lead aircraft carrying a package box under its fuselage

Drone Delivery

Belvedere Votes on Drone Delivery Monday. Here Is the Residents' Guide

Belvedere, CA votes Oct. 12 on Marin's first drone delivery ordinance. DroneXL's guide: what the city decides, what the FAA owns, what residents can do.

Haye KestelooOct 10

Wingtra

Wingtra Ran 180 Simulations in Six Months to Design the RAY Drone

AirShaper says Wingtra simulated 180 WingtraRAY candidates in six months and gained 56% payload and 12% efficiency over the WingtraOne.

Haye KestelooOct 10

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in a dark suit and purple tie speaking into a handheld microphone on stage, seated in a green chair in front of a row of American flags

FCC Filing

FCC Vote Would Shut Out Chinese Labs That Test 82% of US Devices

The FCC votes October 29 on ending recognition of every mainland China test lab by December 1, 2028. DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P was tested at one of them.

Haye KestelooOct 10

Two climbers in harnesses sit at the very top of a 2,000-foot broadcast tower above flat farmland, photographed from a drone hovering level with them

FAA

FAA Lets Tower Inspection Drones Fly Above LAANC Grids, No Tower Call

FAA Order JO 7200.23E, effective Oct. 31, exempts tower inspections from ATC coordination above the grid, writes rules for Class E airports and more.

Haye KestelooOct 9

A DJI drone silhouetted in flight against a sunset sky with towering clouds

FAA

Dallas Drone Pilot Faces 8 Years. The Runway Charge Carries Just One

Pujan Gajjar, 24, is indicted on four counts over alleged drone flights at Love Field and DFW. By DroneXL's reading, the certificate counts carry the time.

Haye KestelooOct 9

FCC Filing

FCC Oct. 29 Vote Ends 35-Year Ban on Drones in 800 MHz Cellular Band

FCC votes October 29 on lifting a 1991 airplane-phone rule that kept drones off 50 MHz of carrier spectrum. AT&T, Verizon and Zipline backed it.

Haye KestelooOct 9

Zipline

Zipline Starts Austin Deliveries With FAA Comment Window Still Open

Zipline opened delivery in Round Rock on October 9 for 5,000 residents, two days before comments close on the FAA's draft review of its Austin plans.

Haye KestelooOct 9

Federal Aviation Administration headquarters at 800 Independence Avenue SW in Washington, D.C., with the Orville Wright Federal Building sign in front

FAA

FAA Part 107 Test Adds Chart Questions Oct. 26 Not in the Supplement

From October 26, the FAA Part 107 knowledge test draws chart questions from current sectionals, not the printed supplement. One in six already fails.

Haye KestelooOct 9

Pilot Institute

DJI Neo 3 Unboxing Leak, 71,207-Drone Record, FAA $12M, FBI School

Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week: the DJI Neo 3 has a video leak, Sky Elements sets a Guinness World Record, the FAA hands out $12 million to drone test sites, and the FBI doubles its counter-drone school capacity.

Greg ReverdiauOct 9

Amazon

Amazon Tells North Myrtle Beach: Ask the FAA. FAA: Ask Amazon and City

Amazon told North Myrtle Beach the FAA decides overflights and its drones stay under 68 decibels. The FAA says ask Amazon and the city. Its table says 82.

Haye KestelooOct 8

TEASER

DJI Teases Dock 4 With Battery Swapping for October 14, Not for the US

DJI's October 14 teaser shows its next dock, the leaked Dock 4, swapping a charged battery into a new drone. Dock 3 charges in place. The US can't buy it.

Haye KestelooOct 8

White DJI Neo 3 drone held over grey paving, seen from the front with its gimbal camera, a slot above the lens and four spoked propeller cages

LEAK

DJI Neo 3 Specs and Features: What 23 Days of Leaks Have Settled

DJI Neo 3 specs and features from three weeks of leaks: square 1/1.1-inch sensor, 192.7 g, three-cell battery, caged props, RC Mini. No price or date yet.

Haye KestelooOct 8

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