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Hand holding a small black carbon quadcopter with four white tri-blade propellers over a grass field

FPV

Quadmovr Flies A 160 Gram 5-Inch Drone By Eye, No Camera, No GPS

Two weeks after his impeller video passed 1.6 million views, quadmovr is back with a 117 gram dry 5-inch quad flown line of sight in acro mode.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Entrance canopy of the FBI campus at Redstone Arsenal with large blue lettering reading Federal Bureau of Investigation, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, above five guard booths

Counter-Drone

FBI Drone School to Double Capacity After 700 World Cup Seizures

DOJ's No. 3 says the FBI's Redstone Arsenal counter-drone school will more than double capacity. It is the only gate to new police drone takedown powers.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Flock Safety Alpha drone lifting off from its white rooftop dock inside a fenced enclosure, city skyline behind

Police

Warwick Police Flock Drone Waits On T.F. Green's Zero-Foot FAA Grids

Warwick, RI's $150,000 Flock Alpha police drone has a BVLOS waiver but no airport airspace approval. FAA facility map grids at T.F. Green read 0 feet.

Haye KestelooOct 5

A man holds a white and green 3D-printed blended wing body model aircraft at a grass airfield while a second model flies overhead

Video

Ramy RC Crashes Five Natilus Horizon Models Before One Finally Lands

Ramy RC's 24-foot Natilus Horizon prototype is still grounded. Five 3D-printed models crashed before one landed at JetPower. He explains what went wrong.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Bundeswehr soldier in camouflage and balaclava holding a controller while a gray quadcopter hovers above him over a field

Germany

Germany Builds 600-Soldier Drone Regiment as US Army Scraps Its Own

Germany will stand up a 600-soldier drone regiment in 2027 with a 500 km reach and its own jammers, weeks after the US Army ended a same-size unit nearby.

Haye KestelooOct 5

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

FAA

FAA Puts $12 Million Into Drone Test Sites as Part 108 Sits Unsigned

The FAA awarded $12 million to 19 drone research projects at its nine test sites. Congress mandated the money in 2024, and Part 108 is still unsigned.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Soldiers in camouflage salute as flag-draped transfer cases sit in the open backs of gray vans on an airfield

Department of Defense

Wounded Port Shuaiba Soldiers Tell AP the Army Left Them to Find Care

Nine soldiers wounded in Iran's March 1 Port Shuaiba strike tell AP the Army sent them to barracks, logged them as not combat wounded and delayed TBI care.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Gray blueflite cargo drone hovering low over a mown field with its winch hooks hanging beneath the fuselage, tree line behind

Drone Delivery

Munson Medical Drones Fly Again Oct. 6, Five Months After DroneUp Quit

Munson Healthcare and blueflite fly phase two of Michigan's medical drone trial Oct. 6 to 30 in Traverse City, five months after operator DroneUp quit.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Aerial view of Lumen Field in Seattle lit up at night with the downtown skyline and Elliott Bay behind it

FAA

FAA Warns NFL Drone Pilots After 700 World Cup Seizures Didn't Deter

The FAA is calling every NFL game a No Drone Zone with $100,000 fines. The same warnings ran before the World Cup, and the FBI still seized more than 700 drones.

Haye KestelooOct 5

Wing hybrid delivery drone in flight carrying a blue Walmart-branded package box beneath its fuselage

Drone Delivery

Wing Picks Denver for Walmart Drones. Two Suburbs Already Froze Hubs

Wing and Walmart name Denver and Seattle for 2027 drone delivery. Both metros surfaced in city permits first, and two Denver suburbs have paused hubs.

Haye KestelooOct 5

A blue, white and gold VISA hot air balloon floats in a clear blue sky above a multi-lane road and roadside businesses in Albuquerque.

FAA

FBI's Balloon Fiesta No Drone Zone Runs On A Clock: 10.5 Hours A Day

FBI counter-drone teams are enforcing the Balloon Fiesta TFR, but the FAA's two NOTAMs run 5:30 a.m. to noon and 4 to 8 p.m. daily, not around the clock.

Haye KestelooOct 4

Two children in pilot caps sitting at a junior flight simulator cockpit with multiple display screens

Europe

Estonia's Capital Trains Kids From 8 on Drones, Citing Russia

Tallinn opened a drone classroom for children aged 8 to 16 and it is already fully booked. The city sold it as STEM. Its creator says the motive is Russia.

Haye KestelooOct 4

A crowd of journalists and officials gathered in front of the fire-damaged, partly collapsed National Academy of Sciences building in Kyiv.

Ukraine

Germany Funds Jet-Drone Interceptors As Ukraine's Best Hits 30%

Merz arrived in Kyiv with €1.3 billion, part of it for mass-producing interceptors against Russia's jet Shaheds. Zelensky says the best one downs 30% of targets.

Haye KestelooOct 4

Amazon

Amazon North Haven Drone Hold Disputed as Legislators Meet Oct. 5

North Haven's first selectman says Amazon put its drone plan on hold. The CT House GOP leader says that is not the case. DEEP comments run to Oct. 15.

Haye KestelooOct 4

FPV pilot Parker Sheppard wearing goggles and holding a controller beside the Kinzua Bridge viaduct in Pennsylvania, with a 5-inch freestyle drone carrying a GoPro overhead

FPV

FPV Pilot Flies Kinzua Bridge, A Pennsylvania Park That Bans Drones

Parker Sheppard dove an FPV quad around Kinzua Bridge on a permit he says Pennsylvania granted. DCNR allows drones at six parks. Kinzua isn't one.

Haye KestelooOct 3

The Mach Initiative's orange 3D-printed KingChaser jet aircraft sitting on a black launch rail on grass, with its jet turbine exhaust visible at the rear

Technology

Mach Initiative Builds 20-Lb RC Jet to Break the 9-Year 465 mph Record

University of Bath students unveiled KingChaser, a 300-newton 3D-printed jet built to beat Niels Herbrich's 465 mph Guinness record. It has not flown yet.

Haye KestelooOct 3

Six members of the Westborough Select Board and town staff seated at a blue-draped table on the Mill Pond School stage during the October 1, 2026, meeting on Amazon Prime Air

Amazon

Amazon's Westborough Drone Launch Now Hinges on a Zoning Appeal

Residents have appealed Westborough's ruling that Amazon's drone pad is an accessory use. The ZBA now decides whether the town can say no at all.

Haye KestelooOct 3

Leaked DJI Neo 3 Fly More Combo retail box showing the drone with spoked propeller guards and the DJI RC Mini controller

DJI

DJI Neo 3 Leak Puts the Osmo Action 6 Square Sensor in a 193 g Drone

A leaked DJI Neo 3 marketing sheet lists a square 1/1.1-inch sensor with native vertical shooting, 2x lossless zoom and the RC Mini. The Neo 2 has a 1/2-inch sensor.

Haye KestelooOct 3

Man pointing at a redacted DHS report ranking the DJI Matrice 4T above competing drones, with the Matrice 4T on the table

Blue sUAS

DHS Tested DJI Against Blue UAS and Hid the Scores. Why Weren't We Told?

A DHS addendum obtained by DroneXL scores the DJI Matrice 4T at 4.6 and the Matrice 30T at 4.3 at Hudson Yards, above the Skydio X10D at 3.7. The public report left those numbers out. I think we're allowed to ask why.

Russ 51 DronesOct 2

Amazon

North Myrtle Beach Amazon Drone Vote: Staff Ask Oct. 20, Forum Oct. 7

Staff want Amazon's North Myrtle Beach drone pad put off to Oct. 20 and say a workshop is set for Oct. 7. The plans, the state law and the levers left.

Haye KestelooOct 2

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

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Utah Rescue Captain Tells DC the FCC Drone Ban Will Cost Lives

Kyle Nordfors takes the FCC drone ban fight to The Hill: 25 to 30 lives saved, searches cut from 4.5 hours to under one, no US drone that matches.

Haye KestelooOct 2

Residents holding blue No Commercial Drones signs outside Mill Pond School in Westborough, Massachusetts, before the Select Board meeting on Amazon Prime Air

Amazon

Amazon Asks Westborough to Delay Drone Pad Vote as Board Says No

Amazon wants its Westborough drone pad hearing pushed to Nov. 10, the town agenda shows, after telling residents it hoped to fly by late October.

Haye KestelooOct 2

A white and yellow Wing delivery drone on a display stand in a fenced-off section of a Walmart parking lot, with parked cars behind the barrier.

Drone Delivery

Castle Rock Froze Walmart's Drone Hub 7-0. Its Clock Runs Out Jan 21

Castle Rock, Colorado banned drone delivery hub applications 7-0 in July after Walmart asked for an 18-drone port. Westborough residents now want the same.

Haye KestelooOct 2

Pilot Institute News Update week 385 thumbnail covering Blue UAS report, FAA lawsuit, DJI leak, and Skydio drone

Blue sUAS

DSPA Calls Congress Over Blue UAS Report as 15 States Sue FAA and Skydio Unveils the MegaDock

Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week: DSPA asks Congress to look at the DHS Blue UAS report, 15 states sue the FAA over drone delivery, DJI's next enterprise drone leaks in China, and Skydio unveils a fixed-wing drone and a robotic dock.

Greg ReverdiauOct 2

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