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High School Drone Team to Dazzle with 300-Drone Light Show

While most high school teams are practicing on the football field, a new kind of team in Peninsula School District is practicing in the night

Rafael SuárezSep 18

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Mysterious Drone Incident Prompts Police Probe at Strongsville’s Meadow Lane Playground

A mysterious drone hovering over the Meadow Lane Apartments playground in Strongsville, Ohio, on August 23, 2025, sparked a police investigation after a resident reported suspicious activity. The drone left before police arrived, no suspects have been identified, and Strongsville authorities confirm the case is under active investigation, according to Cleveland.com. Strongsville Mysterious Drone U

Haye KestelooSep 16

Drone Operator Faces Charges After Super Scooper Collision

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Drone Pilot Sentenced for Crashing UAV Into Firefighting Aircraft in California

A Culver City man has been sentenced for flying a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft battling the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, causing significant damage and temporarily grounding the critical water-dropping plane, according to NBC LA. Peter Tripp Akemann, 57, a computer game developer, pleaded guilty in February to a federal class-A misdemeanor…

Haye KestelooSep 15

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Drones face FAA safety pushback as pilots union opposes Rainmaker’s cloud‑seeding plan

Rainmaker Technology’s plan to use small drones with cloud‑seeding flares is under fire from the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), which urged the FAA to deny the exemption unless stricter safety conditions are met, signaling a high‑stakes test of how regulators will treat weather modification by unmanned aircraft systems going forward, per TechCrunch’s report. The…

Haye KestelooSep 13