On Friday, Governor Andrew Cuomo welcomed home a team of New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers, staff, volunteers, and two drone pilots of the New York Air National Guard, who have been...
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Using DJI Phantom drones to catch sharks off the Long Island coast
An article from the NY Times explains how local fishermen catch sharks with the use of DJI Phantom drones of the coast of Long Island, NY. Warmer, cleaner water in combination with reduced industrial fishing has brought...
Jones Beach lifeguards with drone keep swimmers safe from feeding sharks over Labor Day Weekend
At Jones Beach in Long Island, NY, lifeguards equipped with a drone keep swimmers safe from feeding Thresher sharks over Labor Day Weekend. Just as beachgoers were starting to enjoy the waves, the lifeguards called for...
Drone delays Yankees-Rays baseball game for five minutes
A drone delayed the Yankees-Rays baseball game for five minutes after the unmanned aircraft was spotted flying over Yankee stadium.
Damage to Rachel Ray’s mansion shown in drone photos
Damage to Rachel Ray’s upstate New York mansion shown in drone photos after a massive fire ripped through her home last Sunday.
Drone shows 9/11 Memorial unlike you have never seen before!
Now, here’s something worth writing about. This drone video shows the 9/11 Memorial unlike you have never seen before, without people and from the air. The video was made by Kevin P. Coughlin and Jin-Sup Lee from...
Washington County receives two new DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise drones
As part of DJI’s US Disaster Relief Program, Washington County, New York has received two new DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise drones for planning purposes during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Plainclothes NYPD officers emerged to confiscate Steinmetz’s drone
New information surfaced about what happened on the day that plainclothes NYPD officers emerged from an unmarked van to confiscate George Steinmetz’s DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone when he tried to document the mass burials on...
NYPD seizes George Steinmetz’s DJI Mavic 2 Pro after Hart Island photo
By now, many people will have seen drone videos or photos of the mass burials of unclaimed COVID-19 victims at Hart Island in New York. We reported on that about a week ago, but so did many other news outlets. Today we...
Drone portraits of New Yorkers in quarantine but still together
In a series of drone portraits, New Yorkers show how while being quarantined they can still be together. Johnny Cirillo flew his drone over parts of Greenpoint and captured the following photos.
Inmates burying coffins on NYC’s infamous Hart Island – Drone video
A drone video seems to show inmates in protective gear burying coffins on NYC’s infamous Hart Island in the Long Island Sound. The city has said that they may burry victims from the COVID-19 pandemic on the island.
Mysterious drone tells New Yorkers to keep social distance. FAA starts investigation.
Here’s an interesting story. A mysterious drone tells New Yorkers to keep a social distance, but it is not an official NYPD drone. No, this is a drone from the ‘Anti-COVID-19 volunteer drone task...
Viral drone date video on TikTok may not be so romantically spontaneous after all
Remember that TikTok video that went viral last week in which the twenty-year-old freelance photographer Jeremy Cohen shows how he lands a date with a ‘quarantined cutie’ by sending his drone over with his...
Drone videos show deserted streets around the world because of Coronavirus
These drone videos show almost completely deserted streets in major cities around the world. The empty streets are the result of measures to slow down the rapidly spreading Coronavirus and to ‘flatten the...
