From CES in Las Vegas (last week) to the National Drone Show and D.C. Drone Film Festival in the nation’s capital (November/December), this year is chock-full of events that touch every aspect of the drone industry — business, government and culture. It’s a lot to track, so we’ve pulled them all together into one Google […]

Collaboration with the drone industry, state and local governments, and the public is the key to successfully integrating drones into the national airspace system, federal officials said this week at the nation’s biggest technology trade show. “Let’s figure out the right balances,” Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy Finch Fulton said at CES in Las […]

A drone pilot crashed his Phantom 4 small unmanned aircraft system into a U.S. Army helicopter in September because he was flying it out of his line of sight, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded today. The drone pilot was a hobbyist, not a commercial operator who had passed an airman’s knowledge test to be […]