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Pilot Institute coded all 3,824 readable filings in FCC docket 26-189 against the 11 questions the Commission actually asked. Here is what the record says.
Amazon told Baton Rouge its delivery drones beat an idling truck. Its own FAA noise filing puts the delivery hover at 92.1 decibels.
Norway's prime minister says a drone almost hit Zelenskyy's plane leaving Moldova. A source in Zelenskyy's own office calls that account exaggerated.
St. Paul's council decides Wednesday whether police can chase a $200,000 federal grant for more drones. Two members have already said no.
Amazon promises drone delivery in nearly 500 US cities by December. An FAA approval run and one national document explain how it got there this fast.
Every US drone delivery operator with an FAA authorization, every hub, every incident and every open question, on one page. Here is why we built it and what happens next.
Infinite Electronics VP Gabriel Guglielmi on NDAA parts, anti-jamming antennas, and why counter-drone demand now outpaces drones, from Commercial UAV Expo 2026.
Amazon has the DJI Mini 3 at $315 for Labor Day, $104 off list. The base package is a real discount. The DJI RC and Fly More bundles are not.
Military officials say cartel drone flights over the Rio Grande Valley fell about 75% after an Army laser began downing them. The baseline is undisclosed.
Shawn from Air Photography looks back on a year with the DJI Neo 2: why it gets more airtime than his bigger drones and what a Neo 3 needs to fix.
Germany plans nine-city counter-drone units and a law letting power and water companies actively fend off drones, five weeks after the Leipzig bomb.
DroneXL sent Amazon Prime Air eight written questions about its 83-pound MK30 drone. Saturday's deadline passed with no answers as Amazon plans 500 cities.
A Zipline delivery drone came down under its parachute onto Highway 6 in Cypress on Friday. No injuries, no damage, no calls to police, and no cause yet.
A real estate photographer's DJI Mavic 4 Pro is shot out of the sky in Athens, Alabama, GoPro hands 90% of the company to Starman Optical, and UAS Sentry unveils the $1,595 Nexus Observer portable Remote ID detector.
Wing says it flies thousands of Walmart drone deliveries a day. Walmart's own quarter backs the rate. Amazon's 500-city map is the counterclaim.
DJI put the Power 2000 on stage at IFA 2026 as a grid-tied home battery with its first balcony solar kit. US buyers get none of it.
TSA is recruiting hand-picked operators for closed BVLOS security roundtables that run only after the Part 108 final rule publishes. Deadline October 19.
Pocket 4P owners in Japan discovered DJI's latest firmware lets the FrameTap remote and DJI Mic 3 connect at once. DJI's changelog never mentioned it.
DJI has booked a September 7 Venice Film Festival panel for the Osmo Pocket 4P, its fourth European stage for a camera Americans still cannot buy.
Woodman's letter says GoPro will keep building cameras after the Starman merger. It names no product, and GoPro's filings say details wait for closing.
GAO finds the Secret Service logged drone incidents in 2015, 2016 and 2021, changed no civilian drone policy and never wrote down why. Then came Butler.
Aviv Shapira signed XTEND's JFB closing during a DroneXL interview. XTND trades on the NYSE Friday, Gauntlet II unscored. 'I think we did good,' he says.
Pilot Institute read and coded all 3,824 filings in FCC docket 26-189. 98.6% oppose the military-grade drone ban as written. Sixteen support it.
DJI's 26-page filing, signed by a former U.S. Solicitor General, says no security agency ever endorsed the FCC's seven military-grade drone categories.
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