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DroneXL Adds 20 Drone Delivery Town Guides as Local Votes Pile Up
DroneXL published 20 new resident guides on its Drone Delivery Tracker today, one for each town or metro where Amazon Prime Air, Wing or Zipline is flying, has filed paperwork, or has named the area....
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Airlogix Seeks $100M At $2B Valuation As Russia Bombs Its Factories
Airlogix, the Kyiv drone maker whose strike aircraft are now built in Germany, is in talks to raise $100 million at a valuation above $2 billion, Forbes reported on October 9, citing two sources...
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Round Rock Says It Has No Zoning Rule for Zipline's Drone Hub
Zipline’s first Austin-area drone hub sits outside Round Rock’s city limits, and the City of Round Rock says its zoning code has no rule for drone hubs at all. The hub at 3000 E. Palm Valley Blvd. is...
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Belvedere Votes on Drone Delivery Monday. Here Is the Residents' Guide
Belvedere, a city of 2,126 people on two islands in Richardson Bay, takes its final vote Monday, October 12, on the first drone delivery ordinance in Marin County. DroneXL has published a...
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Wingtra Ran 180 Simulations in Six Months to Design the RAY Drone
Swiss drone maker Wingtra ran 180 aerodynamic computer simulations in six months to get from the WingtraOne to the WingtraRAY, according to a video AirShaper published on October 7, 2026. AirShaper is...
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FCC Vote Would Shut Out Chinese Labs That Test 82% of US Devices
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on October 29, 2026 on an order that ends FCC recognition of every test lab in mainland China on December 1, 2028. Chairman Brendan Carr announced...
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FAA Lets Tower Inspection Drones Fly Above LAANC Grids, No Tower Call
The Federal Aviation Administration has rewritten the internal order that decides what drone pilots get back from FAADroneZone. Order JO 7200.23E, Processing of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Requests, is...
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Dallas Drone Pilot Faces 8 Years. The Runway Charge Carries Just One
A federal grand jury in Dallas has indicted a 24-year-old man on four counts accusing him of flying a drone into the airspace of Dallas Love Field and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on...
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FCC Oct. 29 Vote Ends 35-Year Ban on Drones in 800 MHz Cellular Band
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on October 29, 2026 on a draft order that lets drones use the 800 MHz Cellular band, 50 MHz of licensed spectrum that carriers have held nationwide...
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Zipline Starts Austin Deliveries With FAA Comment Window Still Open
Zipline opened drone delivery in the Austin area on Friday, October 9, with its First Flight early-access program taking orders in Round Rock for the first 5,000 residents who sign up. Customers within...
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FAA Part 107 Test Adds Chart Questions Oct. 26 Not in the Supplement
The Federal Aviation Administration will start putting sectional chart questions on the Part 107 knowledge test on October 26, 2026 that do not appear in the printed testing supplement applicants study...
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DJI Neo 3 Unboxing Leak, 71,207-Drone Record, FAA $12M, FBI School
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. The DJI Neo 3 has a video leak. We have a Sky Elements Guinness World Record. The FAA hands out $12 million to drone test...
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Amazon Tells North Myrtle Beach: Ask the FAA. FAA: Ask Amazon and City
Amazon representative Tareq Wafaie told the North Myrtle Beach Planning Commission on Wednesday, October 7, that whether its delivery drones fly over a neighborhood is the Federal Aviation...
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DJI Teases Dock 4 With Battery Swapping for October 14, Not for the US
DJI Enterprise will launch its next dock and dock drone on October 14, 2026, at 8 AM EDT, and the six-second teaser it pinned to its X account on October 8 shows the new dock swapping a battery into...
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DJI Neo 3 Specs and Features: What 23 Days of Leaks Have Settled
The DJI Neo 3 specs and features have leaked in pieces for 23 days, and as of Thursday they add up to most of a spec sheet. A square 1/1.1-inch sensor, 192.7 g, a three-cell 18.9 Wh battery, caged...
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DJI Osmo 360 II Beginners Guide: Getting Started With 360
Good day, folks. Shawn here from Air Photography. This is my beginner’s guide for the newly released DJI Osmo 360 II. It’s geared to those who have never used a 360 camera before, to help you get...
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DJI Neo 3 Battery Goes to Three Cells. Neo 2 Owners Buy New Packs
The DJI Neo 3 flies on a three-cell battery. A label photo that surfaced Wednesday afternoon in the replies to Jasper Ellens’s latest Neo 3 post reads 1,800 mAh, 10.5 V nominal, 12.9 V maximum charge...
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Amazon Prime Air Is Hiring in Australia. The Job: Get CASA to Say Yes
Amazon is hiring a Head of Regulatory Approvals, Australia, for Prime Air, and the job ad says the hire’s success will be measured by the approvals obtained, the timelines hit and, in the ad’s words,...
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Laredo Police Vow to Take Down Drones at Hotel Fire. FAA Lists No TFR
Laredo Police Chief Miguel Rodriguez told reporters Wednesday morning that officers will mitigate and take down any drone flown over the DoubleTree by Hilton fire scene at 800 Garden Street in Laredo,...
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Worcester Asks If It Can Stop Amazon Drones. Shrewsbury Says It Can't
Worcester’s City Council on Tuesday night, October 6, asked City Manager Eric D. Batista for a report on whether the city has any authority to restrict or control the Amazon Prime Air drones Amazon...
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