Drones

Duffy’s proposal would streamline BVLOS operations and bolster safety

Skyports Drone Services will fly medical supplies to two hospital campuses in Belgium, with drones piloted remotely from the UK.

A new Embry-Riddle study reveals growing drone activity across the U.S., identifying airports, heliports and residential areas as key hot spots for potential midair collisions with manned aircraft.

Only 13 planes have been confirmed as destroyed.

A proposed Florida bill would allow homeowners to use “reasonable force” against drones below 500 feet, despite FAA warnings about federal legality.

A Russian drone seconds before Butcher’s exploding drone brought it down.

The Los Angeles Times is reporting a drone operator whose aircraft damaged the wing of water bomber working the Palisades fire in Los Angeles last month has offered to pay a five-figure repair bill and do 150 hours of community to avoid jail for the mishap. Peter Tripp Akemann, 56, of Culver City, offered to […]

China-based drone manufacturer DJI announced Monday that the latest firmware update to its “GEO” geofencing system reclassifies Restricted Zones (aka No Fly Zones) as Enhanced Warning Zones. The change means that drone operators are now responsible for monitoring their aircraft to ensure they do not encroach on FAA-designated flight restriction areas, as opposed to the […]

Police have arrested three people involved in two drone incidents related to aerial firefighting in Los Angeles. L.A. County Sheriff’s department did not release details of the circumstances of their arrest or whether either of the incidents involved the collision of a drone with a CL-415 waterbomber late last week. The specific charges have also […]

The part needed to fix a CL-415 water bomber damaged in a drone strike in Los Angeles on Thursday was on its way to L.A. on Friday. The aircraft could be back in the air as soon as Monday. DeHavilland Canada, which holds the type certificate for the so-called Super Scooper and supports the worldwide […]