Top 150 High-End Drone News, Reviews & Resources

Drone News, Reviews & Resources

• 10 things you need to know about consumer drones - The Guardian.
• 13 best drones for 2023: top flying cameras for all budgets - "The best drones for shooting aerial images."
• $99 toy drone has Intel & DJI flight technology - The Verge.
• A Field Guide to Civilian Drones - The New York Times.
• A first look at GoPro's foldable Karma drone - engadget.
• A Rookie Learns to Fly a Drone - The New York Times.
• AirMap for iOS Lets Drone Pilots Easily Avoid ... Incidents - Wired.
• Airobotics makes autonomous drones in a box - TechCrunch.
• Amazon proposes drones-only airspace to facilitate high-speed delivery - The Guardian.
• Amazon to begin drone deliveries in US this year - "Amazon to begin drone deliveries in Lockeford, California this year. Amazon says it will begin delivering parcels to shoppers by drone for the first time later this year, pending final regulatory approval."
• An engineer modded a drone to rescue this puppy - The Verge.
• Australian study finds herding sheep via drone better for their welfare - "Study finds sheep have higher heart rates when shepherded by traditional means."
• Barbie trades in her pink convertible for a hoverboard drone - The Verge
• best drone photography you'll see all year - The Telegraph.
• Best Drones 2018 - tom's guide.
• Best Drones 2022: Take flight with drones for beginners and experts alike - "Whether you’re a novice pilot of a seasoned drone veteran, these are the best drones that money can buy."
• Best Drones Under $100 - Wirecutter.
• Best RC Drones of 2016 - TopTenReviews.
• Boeing's prototype cargo drone can haul 500-pound loads - engadget.
• British drone-catching tech to be tested in US airports - The Telegraph.
• Car-Sized Drone Carries People Like a Helicopter - TIME Magazine.
• CNN gets first look at a captured Russian drone. See what was found inside - "Western technology used in drones is helping Russia to track and kill Ukrainian forces."
• Combat drone to compete against piloted plane - "The US Air Force will pit an advanced autonomous aircraft against a piloted plane in a challenge set for July 2021."
• Cyborg Unplug - "Your defense against wireless surveillance." Anti wireless-surveillance system for the home and workplace. It detects and kicks selected devices known to pose a risk to personal privacy from your wireless network, breaking uploads and streams.
• DJI Air 3 review: A high-quality zoom adds new creative options - "Plus more range and battery life in a quieter drone."
• DJI Avata is a nimble cinewhoop drone for FPV novices - "Tough and maneuverable, but hard to fly indoors and Goggles 2 have issues."
• DIY Drones - "The Leading Community for Personal UAVs."
• DJI drones can start streaming live aerial videos on Facebook - engadget.
• DJI exec hints at future pocket-sized camera drones - engadget.
• DJI introduces Phantom 4 Pro with 360 degrees of obstacle avoidance - The Verge.
• DJI made a quieter version of the Phantom 4 Pro - "Sixty percent quieter than the 2016 model."
• DJI Mavic 3 Pro comes with a triple-camera setup - "DJI has unveiled its new flagship consumer drone, the Mavic 3 Pro, with a triple-camera setup that includes a new 70mm lens designed for 'powerful subject framing.' It also includes a new 10-bit D-Log M color mode, improvements in the tele cameras, and ProRes capture on the Mavic 3 Pro Cine option."
• DJI MAVIC 3 REVIEW: A PRICEY DRONE THAT PERFORMS - "The Mavic 3 and Mavic 3 Cine are incredible photo and video tools - for a price"
• DJI MAVIC AIR REVIEW: PORTABLE PHOTOGRAPHER - The Verge.
• DJI MAVIC AIR 2 REVIEW: GREAT PHOTOS WITHOUT THE PRO PRICE - "DJI’s latest midrange drone has a better camera, improved connectivity, and longer flight time."
• DJI MINI 2 REVIEW: THE PERFECT BEGINNER DRONE - "It looks the same, but it flies and shoots much better."
• DJI Mini 3 Pro leaked images & video show exciting redesign - "It looks like the DJI Mini 3 Pro could be here in a matter of weeks, thanks to a leaked video."
• DJI Mini 3 Pro review: The most capable lightweight drone yet - "Advanced obstacle detection, 4K 60p video, tracking and superb maneuverability."
• DJI Mini 4 Pro review: The best lightweight drone gains more power & smarts - "Better range, tracking and crash protection, plus ultra slow mo 4K. The Mini 4 Pro is still under 250 grams so it can be flown without a license or registration in many regions, but it has subtle design changes all around."
• DJI officially announces Mini 3 Pro - "New image sensor, larger aperture, vertical filming, bigger battery, and a lot more expensive."
• DJI Phantom 4 Review: The first drone for everyone - The Verge.
• DJI releases new flagship Mavic drones - Mavic 3 & Mavic 3 Cine - "There are a few big headline features shared between both of the new drones, but let’s start with the one reserved for the $4,999 Mavic 3 Cine. The Cine model is capable of filming Apple ProRes 422 HQ footage at 5.1K up to 50FPS, and it has a built-in, but not user-replaceable, 1TB SSD."
• DJI suspends sales in Russia & Ukraine to prevent its drones from being used in combat - "Ukraine previously said that Russia was using DJI products to navigate its missiles."
• DJI will pay you to find security exploits in its drones - engadget.
• DJI's latest Mavic 2 drone is built for search & rescue - "The modified Mavic 2 for businesses costs $1,999."
• DJI’s M600 Drone Is Not for You. Don’t Even Look at It - Wired.
• DJI's Mavic Air drone may have improved 4K video - engadget.
• DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 has an upgraded camera and much longer flying time - "A bigger sensor, a bigger battery, and redesigned controller come to DJI’s mainstream drone."
• DJI’S NEW MAVIC AIR 2S COMES WITH ONE BIG UPGRADE - "A much better camera in a familiar body."
• DJI's next Mavic drone might have 360-degree obstacle awareness - engadget.
• DJI's palm-sized Mavic Mini can fly for up to 30 minutes - "It's an everyday drone with top features."
• DJI’s palm-sized Mini 2 drone flies further & shoots 4K for $449 - "Goodbye Wi-Fi, hello OcuSync."
• DJI's Phantom 4 is the drone we've been waiting for - The Verge.
• Dot Physics: The Crazy Science of Drone Flight - Wired.
• Drone Articles Archives - WeTalkUAV.com.
• Drone Awards 2024 - in pictures - "A selection of the nominated images from this year’s Drone Awards. A winner will be announced on 28 September at the Siena World Photography Awards ceremony at the Teatro dei Rinnovati in Siena, Italy."
• Drone Flyers - "Quadcopter, Multirotor and Drones Resource Site."
• Drone helps save cardiac arrest patient in Sweden - "The drone delivered a defibrillator to a doctor helping the man, who became ill while shovelling snow outside his house in Trollhättan, Sweden."
• Drone InstaFinder - "Find the right drone for you."
• Drone noise is driving people crazy - engadget.
• Drone photo awards 2020 - "Drone Awards is the most important worldwide competition about aerial photography and video. It’ a project of Siena Awards, dedicated to a different photographic genre deliberately separated from being compared to traditional photography. The competition is opened to the aerial photography and videos whose platforms also include fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, balloons, blimps and dirigibles, rockets, kites, and parachutes."
• Drone racing is coming to ESPN this August - The Verge.
• Drone Racing League sets Guinness record for fastest flight - engadget.
• Drone Registration Rules Are Announced by F.A.A. - The New York Times.
• Drone scores a first by successfully delivering package in Nevada town - The Guardian.
• Drone Videos Could Help Amazon Sell Prime Subscriptions - The New York Times.
• ‘Drone with a seat’ to make world debut in Monaco - "A few years ago a flying car from Slovakia created a lot of interest at Top Marques, the supercar show, and since then the drone has become ubiquitous as a camera platform and so much more, and especially as a weapon of war." Monaco Daily News.
• Drones will help scientists find the best plant for biofuel - engadget.
• Drones With Facial Recognition Are Primed To Fly - But The World Isn’t Ready Yet - "Some of the first drones with advanced facial recognition capabilities are being developed by Israeli surveillance companies, as American police consider whether they will soon be adding the controversial technology to their unmanned flying machines."
• Dronestagram - "Share your best aerial pictures viewed from a drone."
• DRONIE - a selfie taken using a remote controlled drone.
• Dutch Firm Trains Eagles to Take Down High-Tech Prey: Drones - The New York Times.
• Dutch Police Are Training Eagles To Take Down Drones - IFLScience.
• FAA considers rules allowing small drones to fly over people - engadget.
• Fat Shark's 101 starter set is a gateway to drone racing - engadget.
• First passenger drone makes its debut at CES - The Guardian.
• First-person-view drone flying is the closest thing to being a bird - engadget.
• 'Flying battery' drone can apparently hover non-stop for two hours - "The device's maker says its power source doubles as the primary structure."
• GDU Byrd Advanced Review - Wired.
• Getting a Drone as a Gift? Check Your Insurance - The New York Times.
• GoPro quits the drone business - The Verge.
• GUIDE TO DRONES - Wired.
• Hacker Says He Can Hijack a $35K Police Drone a Mile Away - Wired.
• How to Ace the FAA’s New Test and Become a Pro Drone Pilot - Wired.
• How to build a drone for Mars - "The drones that will fly in alien skies. If you could fly a drone in the skies of Mars, you could cover a lot more territory far more quickly than with a rover. But designing one is an enormous challenge."
• HOW TO FIGURE OUT A DRONE'S ANGULAR FIELD OF VIEW - Wired.
• How to Register a Drone in the US (2019) - Outstanding Drone.
• HOW TO SHOOT THE BEST AERIAL FOOTAGE WITH YOUR DRONE - Wired.
• How to Take Better Pictures With a Drone - "Look for patterns, lines and light while flying. And don't forget the light and shadows, either. Good light can make or break a photo. Sometimes the best light means a golden sunrise, as we said earlier, but sometimes it means an overcast day with diffused light."
• Idiots with drones shut down the UK’s second largest airport - again - "A new ‘suspected drone sighting’ briefly shut down air traffic at Gatwick Airport yet again, diverting more flights."
• If drone racing is the sport of the future, how will we watch it? - The Verge
• In 2023, you won’t be able to fly most drones in the US without broadcasting your location - "The FAA just shook up the drone world."
• It’s Time for Fancy Apartments to Offer Balconies for Drone landings - Wired.
• KFC Chicken Wings Box Doubles as a Quadcopter - engadget.
• Killer drones: how many are there & who do they target? - "From lightweight surveillance devices to heavily armed attack weapons, pilotless drones are rapidly becoming a favoured tool of warfare. But are they accurate? Ethical? Here to stay?"
• KILLERDRONE! Flying chainsaw - YouTube 2:53.
• Maersk Tankers Claims First Drone Delivery to Ship at Sea - gCaptain.
• Meet The Drone Startup Scoring Millions In Government Surveillance Contracts - Forbes.
• My Dear Drone - "Quadcopter (UAV) News & Reviews."
• Nevada gets first FAA-approved urban drone delivery - Flirtey's autonomous hexacopter dropped the package in Hawthorne, Nevada.
• Palmer Luckey's company is making drone-ramming drones - "The controversial firm is already sending defensive UAVs to customers."
• PARROT ANAFI DRONE REVIEW - "Flying High, But Falling Short."
• Parrot’s new drone folds up for on-the-go use - The Verge.
• Personal Drones - "Your Personal Flying Freedom." Blog for the latest multirotor and quadcopter news.
• Pizza, porn & whale snot: seven alternative uses for drones - The Guardian.
• Proposed Regulations for Drones Are Released - The New York Times.
• Quadcopter - Wikipedia.
• RC Drone | Radio-controlled aircraft - Wikipedia.
• Review: DJI Phantom 4 - Wired.
• Review: Yuneec Breeze 4K Drone - Wired.
• Risk to Aircraft From Drones Being Debated - The New York Times.
• Safety warning over Christmas drone craze as numbers in skies set to almost double - The Telegraph.
• SKYDIO 2 REVIEW: A DRONE THAT FLIES ITSELF - "A new bar for flying cameras, but it needs to reach even higher."
• SKYDIO 2: THE SELF-FLYING FUTURE OF DRONES STARTS AT $999 - "The drone a three-year-old could fly."
• Skydio R1 review: The ultimate follow-me drone comes at a price - "Visual tracking and obstacle avoidance come of age."
• Skydio's follow-me drone takes commands from your Apple Watch - "You can direct the R1 while keeping your hands (mostly) free."
• Smugglers used drones to sneak $80 million worth of phones into China - engadget.
• Spread your arms like a bird & control a drone with this exosuit - The Verge.
• Stats show small drones pose 'minimal' risk to planes - engadget.
• Surrender to a Drone? Ukraine Is Urging Russian Soldiers to Do Just That - "Capitalizing on reports of low Russian morale, Ukraine has begun offering enemy troops detailed instructions on how to make their way over the battlefield and lay down their arms."
• Sweden bans cameras on drones - BBC.
• The game that makes drone warfare personal - engadget.
• The Drone Papers - The Intercept.
• The Feds Just Made It Way Easier to Use Drones for Profit - Wired.
• The flamethrower drone will soon be a thing you can buy - The Verge.
• The Physics of How Drones Fly - Wired.
• The rise of drone crime & how cops can stop it - engadget.
• The Selfie-Drone: Invasion of the Vacation Snatchers - The New York Times.
• These tiny drones can lift 40 times their own weight - "Researchers were able to open a door using the FlyCroTugs drones."
• This drone has an origami arm that unfolds to pick up objects - The Verge
• This is Sony’s Airpeak drone - "Featuring Sony Alpha cameras."
• TIME Special Project: The Drone Age - TIME Magazine.
• Tourists crash drones into Italy landmarks in Rome & Pisa - "An out-of-control drone operated by a tourist crashed onto the roof of Rome's historic Palazzo Venezia on April 23, in Italy's third such drone-related incident this month."
• Tracking rogue drones with DJI’s new Aeroscope system - The Verge.
• Ukraine conflict: How are drones being used? - "Thousands of drones are being used in the Ukraine war - to spot enemy positions, launch missiles and direct artillery fire."
• Unmanned aerial vehicle | UAV - Wikipedia.
• UPS delivery drones are on the way after FAA certification - "The company says this is the first "drone airline" to be certified."
• UPS is one step closer to making drone deliveries nationwide - CNN tech.
• US Navy's solar drone flies from and lands on water - It could be used to hunt for enemy submarines.
• US Treasury claims DJI assists Chinese surveillance of Uyghurs and blocks investments - "The Treasury put the drone maker and seven other companies on its Chinese Military-Industrial Complex list."
• Walmart hopes to have drones flying around its warehouses within a year - The Verge.
• Watch a test of Google’s Project Wing delivery drone - The Verge.
• Watch this drone swarm replant a burnt forest - "With unmanned aircraft and special seed vessels, the company Droneseed is innovating reforestation efforts at a time when wildfires are burning record amounts of land."
• Why Dubai is all in on drones - CNN.
• Winners of the 2019 Drone Awards - CNN travel.
• World’s Most Unique UAV: Spirit Drone - WeTalkUAV.com.
• WOULD DELIVERY DRONES BE ALL THAT EFFICIENT? DEPENDS WHERE YOU LIVE - Wired.
• You can now buy DJI’s leaked $300 Mini SE drone - "Less Mini 2, more last-gen Mavic, but it’s hard to argue with the price."
• Yuneec’s latest drone comes with 4K shooting, voice controls, and face detection - The Verge.