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At last week’s “Let’s Talk Drones” chat room, the audience got to see an end-to-end Flytrex drone delivery: from the order, placed on a phone app, to the delivery of a hot Starbuck’s coffee drink at the Flytrex and Causey Aviation operations center in Fayetteville, NC.  The whole process was …

Image: HOsiHO, used with permission Drone photographers making a living with their art have to have talent – and a good understanding of the market.  Professional photographer Sami Sarkis, the artist behind stock image platform HOsiHO, gives DRONELIFE the deep dive on what aerial images sell best – right now. Current …

In a big step forward for cargo drone delivery, CA-based Volansi has received flight approvals to operate beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) in Senegal. Africa has long been a leader in drone delivery applications, starting with Zipline’s widescale medical delivery operation in Rwanda.  This latest announcement, however, is different …

A close up image of chicks from the ground taken just a few days before the survey (c) Annie Schmidt/Point Blue What one drone can do, multiple drones can do faster.  Scientists have been able to use multiple UAVs, managed by UgCS drone fleet software from SPH Engineering, to survey …

Is drone mapping surveying without a license?  A First Amendment lawsuit in North Carolina says surveyors cannot stop drone operators from selling photos and making maps. Hiring a surveyor is an expensive buisness, but necessary if you want to establish legal property lines.  What if you just want to see …

Connectivity is critical for scaling drone operations – and the Elsight Halo is the tiny tool designed to ensure a secure and virtually unbreakable connection between drone and operator.  We spoke with Elsight’s VP of Global Sales and Alliances Scott Jonasz about the Elsight solution and traction and velocity in …

Last night, Dawn Zoldi interviewed Plaintiff Tyler Brennan and Atty Jonathan Rupprecht in their first interview since filing “RaceDayQuads.com v. Federal Aviation Administration,” the first Remote ID lawsuit challenging the newly published rule. Dotting I’s and Crossing T’s – The FAA Remote ID Lawsuit By: Dawn M.K. Zoldi, Guest Contributor  BREAKING NEWS! …

Here at DRONELIFE, St. Patrick’s Day is a company holiday on other years: our CEO holds an Irish passport, and our home town of Boston usually celebrates Evacuation Day (look it up) as a reason to take the day off.  This year is different – but the St. Patrick’s Day …

(A DRONELIFE Editorial.) A recent headline from the Brookings Institute is a stunning example of the drone industry’s public perception problem. Death from above: How criminal organizations’ use of drones threatens Americans is actually an article about the growing opioid crisis: but the authors places the blame for our current problems first on COVID, …

The FAA has announced when rules on Remote ID will go into effect, along with the newly released regulations on drone Operations Over People and Moving Vehicles and Flight at Night.  In a press release published Friday night, the FAA says that the “final rules requiring remote identification of drones …