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FBI's Balloon Fiesta No Drone Zone Runs On A Clock: 10.5 Hours A Day
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is a no drone zone through October 11, and the FBI says it has counter-drone personnel in place to enforce it. FBI Albuquerque, working with the Federal...
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Estonia's Capital Trains Kids From 8 on Drones, Citing Russia
Tallinn is now teaching children as young as 8 to fly drones, and every seat is taken before the first school group walks in. The city opened its first drone classroom on September 18 at the Energy...
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Germany Funds Jet-Drone Interceptors As Ukraine's Best Hits 30%
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kyiv by train on October 4 with a support package worth more than €1.3 billion ($1.46 billion), and the headline item is money to mass-produce interceptor...
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Amazon North Haven Drone Hold Disputed as Legislators Meet Oct. 5
Amazon’s North Haven, Connecticut, drone plan is on hold until residents, state legislators and regional mayors have been heard at meetings the company will run, First Selectman Michael Freda wrote on...
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FPV Pilot Flies Kinzua Bridge, A Pennsylvania Park That Bans Drones
FPV pilot Parker Sheppard flew a 5-inch freestyle quad around the Kinzua Bridge in McKean County, Pennsylvania, and published the footage to YouTube on October 1, 2026. The 13,500-subscriber channel’s...
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Mach Initiative Builds 20-Lb RC Jet to Break the 9-Year 465 mph Record
The Mach Initiative, a student team at the University of Bath in England, published the build of KingChaser on October 3: a 3D-printed, carbon-reinforced jet aircraft with a 300-newton (67 lbf)...
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Amazon's Westborough Drone Launch Now Hinges on a Zoning Appeal
Several Westborough residents have appealed the town ruling that lets Amazon treat its Prime Air drone launch pad as an accessory use of its Otis Street warehouse, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette...
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DJI Neo 3 Leak Puts the Osmo Action 6 Square Sensor in a 193 g Drone
A leaked DJI Neo 3 marketing sheet lists a square 1/1.1-inch camera sensor, the same size and shape DJI put in the Osmo Action 6 last November. Leaker Igor Bogdanov posted the photo of the printed...
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DHS Tested DJI Against Blue UAS and Hid the Scores. Why Weren't We Told?
I think we just learned something pretty important about the whole DJI situation here in the United States. And depending on how you look at it, it might raise even more questions about how much...
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North Myrtle Beach Amazon Drone Vote: Staff Ask Oct. 20, Forum Oct. 7
North Myrtle Beach’s planning staff are asking the Planning Commission to put off Amazon’s drone launch pad a second time, to October 20, and the staff report posted Friday afternoon says a public...
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Utah Rescue Captain Tells DC the FCC Drone Ban Will Cost Lives
Captain Kyle Nordfors, the drone coordinator for Weber County Search and Rescue in Utah, has taken his fight against the Federal Communications Commission’s “military-grade” drone proposal to...
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Amazon Asks Westborough to Delay Drone Pad Vote as Board Says No
Amazon has asked Westborough’s Planning Board to push the hearing on its Prime Air drone launch pad from October 6 to November 10, according to the board’s revised agenda on the town website. The...
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Castle Rock Froze Walmart's Drone Hub 7-0. Its Clock Runs Out Jan 21
Castle Rock, Colorado, needed one meeting to stop Walmart’s drone delivery hub. On July 21, 2026, the Town Council adopted Ordinance No. 2026-023 on first and final reading, 7 to 0, under an emergency...
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DSPA Calls Congress Over Blue UAS Report as 15 States Sue FAA and Skydio...
Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. DSPA asks Congress to look at the Blue UAS report. We have 15 states that are suing the FAA over drone delivery. We have...
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Hegseth Orders Four-Star Drone Command, Congress Has To Build It
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the creation of a four-star Autonomous Warfare Command on September 30, 2026, telling 600 O-3 officers and E-6 noncommissioned officers at Marine Corps Base...
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Amazon Already Raised Its Texas Drones. 'Drone Warriors' Want Higher
A group of Richardson, Texas homeowners calling themselves the “Drone Warriors” told NBC’s TODAY last week that they want Amazon Prime Air to fly its drones higher over their neighborhood....
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DHS Left DJI's Scores Out of Its Blue UAS Report. Here They Are
The Department of Homeland Security’s test lab scored the DJI Matrice 4T at 4.6 out of 5 and the DJI Matrice 30T at 4.3 when it flew them at Hudson Yards in July 2025, against 3.7 for the Skydio X10D...
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Hillsborough Blood Drones Launch in October, Flown From Sarasota
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue starts flying whole blood to trauma scenes by drone in October. County commissioners approved the program on September 2, and Fire Rescue demonstrated it for reporters...
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Neros Wins $100M Pentagon Order, Plus 800 Drones Rivals Didn't Deliver
Neros Technologies announced on Wednesday, September 30, that the Department of War has ordered 14,000 drones and explosive payloads from it through Gauntlet II of the Drone Dominance Program, an award...
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Amprius Gets $75M Pentagon Drone Battery Grant, Mostly Unfunded
Amprius Technologies will convert an American electric vehicle battery line into a drone cell factory with a Department of War grant of up to $75 million, the Fremont, California company announced on...
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