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Here’s a fun little item that’ll lift enduringly grounded spirits around Gatwick and Dublin airports with a boost of schadenfreude. According to media reports, a UAV sighting caused flights to be halted for over hour in and out of the Chinese city of Shenzhen – headquarters and home of global drone giant DJI.

Italian enterprise UAV developer FlyingBasket has announced the biggest development in its seven-year existence with the commercialization of its FB3 heavy-lift drone, which is capable of hauling payloads of up to 100 kilograms in remote mountain settings and populated urban zones alike.

Authorities in the UK are seeking to battle what they decry as increasing drone deliveries of contraband to prisons in a manner that hasn’t been terribly effective in other countries before: passing new legislation to broaden bans on what’s already illegal activity, rather than investing in the specialized detection and mitigation tech required to detect and neutralize invasive UAVs en route to jails.

Amazon is now offering customers the option to get medicines delivered to their homes via drone within 60 minutes of their order with Amazon Pharmacy, the retail giant’s online prescription drug store. Here’s everything you need to know…

Enterprise drone autonomy software platform FlytBase is joining forces with Skyqraft, a visual data analytics provider for the grid infrastructure, to enable autonomous power grid asset management.

DJI has released a new firmware update for its latest and most-advanced action camera, Osmo Action 4. The accompanying Mimo app — that allows users to adjust settings and shooting modes, sync photos and videos, and edit and share images and footage via their smartphone — has also been updated to v1.10.8 by the tech giant.

German advanced air mobility (AAM) company, Lilium, is making its luxury Pioneer Edition electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) jet available to private US customers for the first time ever, through an accord signed with Texas aviation brokerage and management company EMCJET.

Global UAV company Skyports Drone Services is preparing to expand both its geographical footprint and the specialized aerial fleet it uses during trials of beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) deliveries across the Yeosu City area of South Korea, where it will deploy Swiss startup RigiTech craft for the first time.

Tech giant DJI has introduced a ton of great offers this fall. We have already come across an impressive deal on the Osmo Action 3 camera, and now camera drones and first-person view (FPV) goggles are in the mix.

Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions (AVSS) has announced the public release of PRS-M350, an ASTM F3322-compliant parachute recovery system for the DJI M350 RTK drone. Priced at $3,600, the product complies with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA) M2 Mitigation Means of Compliance requirements and will enable complex flight operations for commercial drone operators.

It looks like a new version of the DJI Mic just went through the FCC’s certification process. Is the tech giant planning to release not one but two products next week?

New York City’s iconic Central Park is set to host its first-ever drone show this weekend. One thousand drones will light up the Manhattan sky with swirling vortices and amorphous shapes during three scheduled performances. Here are the complete details…

The UK Civil Aviation Authority has greenlit six trial projects that would help to make beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone flights and medical drone delivery an everyday reality in the country.

Counter-drone tech specialist DroneShield has released a new sensor-agnostic 3D data fusion engine called SensorFusionAI (SFAI). Deployed as a standalone module, SFAI can integrate into any third-party command-and-control system on a subscription basis and fuse data from varied anti-drone sensors.

A new DJI product has just hit the FCC database. And it appears that Pocket 2, the beloved handheld camera by DJI, is finally getting a much-needed upgrade. The name of the product released on the FCC database today is Osmo Pocket 3, and, according to the label information, it will be powered by a 1,300 mAh battery. For comparison, Pocket 2 gets its juice from an 875 mAh battery.

DroneDeploy customers flying their DJI drones at large sites, or in remote areas, can now create high-accuracy maps without relying on Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) connectivity. The drone management company has launched a new unified reality capture platform, following the acquisition of StructionSite, and it comes with support for drag-and-drop Post Processed Kinematic (PPK) functionality for all DJI RTK-equipped drones.

Saildrone, the California company best known for sending its ocean drones into the hearts of hurricanes, has achieved a new milestone. Its fleet of uncrewed surface vessels has surpassed an incredible cumulative distance of 1,000,000 nautical miles during more than 32,000 days at sea, deployed on missions around the globe.

China-based air taxi developer EHang has received crucial government certification to initiate commercial services with actual passengers in the country. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has issued a “Type Certificate” to EHang’s EH216-S aircraft, making it the world’s first fully certified electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi.

Sustainable Skylines, a Miami-based advertising company that has the FAA nod to use drones to tow large banners over highly populated areas, is partnering with Mitsubishi Electric US for logistics and resource management.

Tech giant DJI has conducted its first-ever drone light show with 1,000 aircraft, joining the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in celebrating the 43rd World Food Day today.