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...
View ArticleAmazon 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,...
View ArticleLaredo 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,...
View ArticleWorcester 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...
View ArticleDJI Neo 3 Flies in First Leaked Video on a Remote With a Scroll Wheel
The DJI Neo 3 has flown on camera. A 91-second video posted to X on Wednesday at 11:34 a.m. Eastern by Jasper Ellens, who writes for DroneXL, shows the unannounced drone lifting off a residential...
View ArticleUpstate Medical's New Drone Port Is Already Cleared To Fly To Utica
Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, New York, opened a drone port on Tuesday for Air Upstate, the program that flies lab specimens, medications and blood products between Upstate facilities. The...
View ArticleAnduril's $3.7B Maryland Shipyard: Trump Adds Drone Subs, 40% Stake
Anduril Industries will spend $3.7 billion to build Arsenal-2, a 2-million-square-foot shipyard at Tradepoint Atlantic in Sparrows Point, Baltimore County, Maryland. The Navy has awarded the company a...
View ArticleWing Lists 19 Walmart Metros. Walmart's Hometown Isn't One of Them
Wing’s Walmart delivery page lists 19 metros, five marked “Now serving” and 14 “Coming soon,” after Monday’s addition of Denver and Seattle for 2027. Bentonville, Walmart’s hometown, is not on it, and...
View ArticleRayNeo GT Max Review: Flying a Mavic 4 Pro on a Truck-Sized Screen
I was not prepared for how much fun it was going to be to fly my DJI drone using AR glasses. These are the RayNeo GT Max AR glasses, and after flying my Mavic 4 Pro with them for just a couple of...
View ArticleFAA Raised Amazon's Omaha Drone Band on Paper. Its Noise Model Didn't
The Federal Aviation Administration’s final environmental assessment for Amazon Prime Air’s Omaha hub expects MK30 drones to cruise between 205 and 370 feet, up from the 180-to-377-foot band in the...
View ArticlePentagon Picks 3 Lasers And A Drone-Frying Microwave For US Bases
The Pentagon has picked the four directed-energy weapons that will defend US military bases against drones for the next year: high-energy lasers from AeroVironment, Kord and Boeing, plus Epirus’...
View ArticleBellingham Police Pick Skydio for DFR, 1 Response in 23 Logged Flights
The Bellingham Police Department in Washington is running its new Drone as First Responder program on Skydio, a detail left out of both the City Council’s agenda bill and the Bellingham Herald’s report...
View ArticleManna Adds Two East Tulsa Drone Bases Rated for 'Thousands' a Week
Manna Air Delivery is launching drone delivery from two new bases in east Tulsa this week, one at The Shops at Alameda near 21st Street and Sheridan Road and one behind Plaza Santa Cecilia at 2160 S....
View ArticleDJI Mini 3 Hits $269 for Prime Big Deal Days, Matching Its June Low
The DJI Mini 3 with the RC-N1 controller is $269 on Amazon for Prime Big Deal Days, $150 under its $419 list price and level with the lowest price DroneXL has recorded for it. The price is exclusive to...
View ArticleAmazon Drones Buzz Cleveland Heights Homes. The Mayor Wants Them Moved
Cleveland Heights Mayor Jim Petras has a meeting scheduled with Amazon next week, after residents complained about the Prime Air drones that began flying out of North Randall on September 24, as...
View ArticleUS Military Counts 378 Border Drone Incursions In 30 Days, And Rising
Joint Task Force-Southern Border detected at least 378 drones along the US-Mexico border between August 22 and September 22, and the trend is climbing, Air Force Brig. Gen. Brian Filler told reporters...
View ArticleAirspection Drone Skips the Boat on BVLOS Run to UK Wind Farm
Glasgow drone start-up Airspection has flown a shore-launched aircraft about 8.7 miles (14 kilometers) round trip over Liverpool Bay to a working offshore wind farm and back, entirely beyond visual...
View ArticleFeared Iran Drone Attack Sent All 12 US B-1s Home From RAF Fairford
The US Air Force pulled all 12 of its B-1B Lancer bombers out of RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England, over the weekend after commanders received new intelligence about a possible drone attack on...
View ArticleDJI Neo 3 Unboxing Video Leaks, and the Battery Slots Are Real
A 49-second unboxing video of the DJI Neo 3 Fly More Combo reached X on Tuesday morning, and this time the drone itself comes out of the box. Jasper Ellens, who writes for DroneXL, posted the clip at...
View ArticleZing Drone Solutions Tests Korean Radios as FCC Bars Foreign Parts
Zing Drone Solutions, the Pendleton, Oregon company behind the Z-RID LiteRemote ID module and the Z-SCAN drone detection system, has signed a memorandum of understanding with NUCODE, a Seoul maker of...
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