As DRONELIFE wrote earlier today, the FAA – via the Morton County Sheriff’s Office – had earlier refused to grant permission to a drone operator to fly over the DAPL protests at Standing Rock for the purposes of media reporting. But it would seem that the FAA has had a …

AeroVironment’s new drone and cloud-based analytics platform squarely targets the commercial sector, but are they targeting the wrong vertical, too late in the game? THE FACTS: Earlier this month, the military and tactical unmanned aircraft systems manufacturer AeroVironment (NASDAQ:AVAV) proudly unveiled its new QuantixTM drone and a cloud-based analytics platform …

Photo credit: Tony Webster, by CC 2.0 News and Commentary. Since the story about the FAA’s Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) over the Standing Rock Protests broke earlier this week with John Goglia’s piece in Forbes Magazine and Peter Sach’s Drone Law Journal article, the drone community has disagreed over how …

Apple Inc. has a new plan to improve the data accuracy of their Maps service and to finally catch up with industry leader Google Maps, Bloomberg reports: drones. Insiders say that Apple is putting together a dream team of robotics, drone and data-collection experts to execute it’s plan to use drones to …

In what’s probably a first in the drone industry, DJI has decided to lower the top speed of its latest drone, the Inspire 2. The new prosumer model from the Chinese drone giant is designed for professional photographers, and was initially available for pre-order with a top speed of 67mph …

As society moves to integrate drone use into the fabric of everyday life – delivery, agriculture, public-safety –the need to establish unmanned traffic management and “no-drone zones” will be a necessity, not a luxury. To meet the challenge head-on, several players have emerged to help keep the airspace safe without …

Now that the dust has settled on DJI’s latest entry to the consumer drone market, we thought it would be a good time to take a closer look at the new Phantom 4 Pro. If you’re undecided on whether to order one in time for Christmas, hopefully this will help …

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, or FAI, claims to be “the world governing body for all air sports recognised by the International Olympic Committee,” and as such, “responsible for world drone sports.” The Federation has issued a statement announcing the formation of a Working Group for drone regulation, “comprised of members …

A London firm has blown past its Kickstarter fundraising goal of ~$50,000; raising $101,631 in 5 days. It is an impressive bit of marketing that indicates people a) continue to have an unquenchable desire to look at themselves and b) invest in an untested device that has yet to go into …

An emerging anti-drone company has a brilliant idea: to catch a rogue drone, release a hunter drone. California-based Airspace Systems recently conclude a successful test of a hybrid system that marries UAV tracking software and sensors with a hexcopter on steroids. The Interceptor drone engages the target in a kind …