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DJI RS5 Gimbal Beginner’s Guide: Setup, Balancing, and Filming Techniques
Whether you’re shooting for real estate, YouTube, or client work, the DJI RS5 could be a serious upgrade. But is it really right for you? How do you use all of these features? In this beginner’s guide, I’m going to…
DJI Osmo Mobile 8P to launch globally, May 7th
After launching in China last week, DJI is now gearing up for a wider rollout of its latest smartphone gimbal. The company is set to unveil the DJI Osmo Mobile 8P globally on May 7th, 2026, marking the next step…
Drones Hit Record Number of UK Air Ambulance Missions
The UK Civil Aviation Authority confirmed nine air ambulance flights were disrupted by drones flying too close to helicopters during emergency missions in 2025. That’s the highest annual figure ever recorded, up from six cases in 2024 and eight in…
New Jersey Spray Drone Theft Ends With Recovery, But No Arrests as Federal Investigation Stays Open
New Jersey State Police have recovered all fifteen agricultural spray drones stolen from a Harrison warehouse last month, but the investigation is far from closed. The drones were found April 27 inside Prudent Corporation‘s storage facility in Dover, roughly 30…
Skyports Begins Year-Long East River Medical Drone Run Between Manhattan and Brooklyn
Skyports Drone Services starts a 12-month commercial drone trial today, flying light pharmaceuticals across New York’s East River between Manhattan’s Downtown Skyport and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal under contract with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The…
Donecle’s €10M Inspection Drone Raise Meets America’s Aircraft Mechanic Shortage
Donecle, the Toulouse-based maker of autonomous aircraft inspection drones, closed a €10 million (approximately $11 million) funding round on April 15. Eleven days later, the Wall Street Journal published a feature on America’s aviation mechanic shortage that explains why that…
DJI SkyPixel 11th Contest Names ‘Africa Unseen’ Best Video As Submissions Fall By A Third
DJI and SkyPixel announced the winners of the 11th Annual SkyPixel Photo and Video Contest on April 27, naming “Africa Unseen” by ellisvanjason as the Annual Best Video in the Aerial Category. Slovak photographer Filip Hrebenda won the Annual Best…
Joby Aviation Flies JFK to Manhattan in NYC’s First Point-to-Point eVTOL Demos
Joby Aviation completed New York City’s first point-to-point electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi demonstration flights this past weekend, the company announced this morning. The aircraft, tail number N545JX, departed John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and landed…
Beijing’s Drone Ban Takes Effect Friday, Squeezing DJI On Its Home Turf
Beijing’s near-total ban on consumer drone sales and storage takes effect this Friday, May 1, with the deadline for existing drone owners to register their equipment with police falling on Wednesday, April 30. That gives Beijing residents three days to…
NASA’s Dragonfly Octocopter Hits Three Build Milestones Ahead of 2028 Titan Launch
NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft is no longer a render. Over the past two months, the team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has bolted together the lander’s primary structure, dropped a full-scale parachute system over the Arizona desert, and…
BRINC Drones Land in Victorville for $832K DFR Rollout
The City of Victorville just flipped the switch on a Drone as First Responder program with BRINC Drones, becoming the first contract city under the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department to put DFR technology into the field, as Public CEO…
Cobb Police Deploy Skydio Drones to Track Murder Suspect in I-75 Corridor
Cobb County police responded to a shooting involving a murder suspect near Leland and Windy Hill roads on Tuesday afternoon, deploying drones alongside SWAT teams and K9 units to track Damian Strozier, 31, who fled after exchanging gunfire with officers,…
The Army Picked Atlas Over Better Drones. Here’s Why
The 101st Airborne Division became the first division to train with the Aevex Atlas at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana, as Clarksville Now reported. That’s a significant moment, but the real story isn’t about being first. It’s about…
NASA Is Sending Organs by Drone, And It Actually Makes Sense
Most government partnerships come down to bureaucracy and grant justifications. This one is different. NASA’s Langley Research Center and the United Network for Organ Sharing just announced they’re going to fly human organs across Virginia in drones. Not in some…
The $30,000 Drones That Cost Amazon $150 Million
Last month, we reported that three Amazon Web Services data centers in the Persian Gulf region went offline for weeks. Two were directly hit by Iranian Shahed drones in the United Arab Emirates. A third was damaged in Bahrain. The…
DJI Neo at $149: The Cheapest Entry Point Into DJI’s Ecosystem
Spokane Buys Four Skydio X10 Drones Ahead of World Cup 2026
Spokane City Council voted 6-1 on April 20 to purchase four Skydio X10 drone platforms for the Spokane Police Department, procuring them through Axon Enterprise. The city also approved funding for barricades and equipment upgrades to support public safety operations…
AFA Gabriel Chapter Funds Drone Program at Leesburg CAP
The Air & Space Forces Association’s Gabriel Chapter in Northern Virginia just handed the Leesburg Civil Air Patrol squadron a concrete investment in its future: two professional-grade unmanned aerial systems and the curriculum to put them to work, as the…
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