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New York has made it a crime to fly a drone within 500 feet of places including schools, police and fire stations, airports, prisons, critical infrastructure and any event drawing 500 or more people. The offense, unlawful use of a drone, came in with the 2026-27 state budget as Penal Law Article 280 and has been in force since August 25. It is a class...

A Texas woman who conspired to fly a crow-shaped package of methamphetamine into the federal penitentiary at Pollock, Louisiana, by drone was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison on October 16. Melanie Jean Worthington, 39, of Joshua, Texas, had pleaded guilty in June to drug conspiracy and providing contraband into a prison.

U.S. District Judge Jerry Edward...

The DJI Neo is $169 on Amazon for the controller-free base kit, 15% under its $199 list price and in stock with next-day Prime delivery. DJI’s own US store charges the same $169 for the same kit, and it is sold out there, with a one-per-customer limit for when stoc...

Welcome to your weekly UAS news update. We have four stories for you this week. The spray drone industry is asking the FCC for a carve-out. The FCC has added some Pentagon letters to the DJI and Autel records. DJI is ending service for the Phantom 4 Pro V2. And a Massachusetts town has voted to ban Amazon drone landing and takeoff pads. Let’s get to it.

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Joe Manor’s Endgame 130, a radio-controlled glider with a 130-inch (3.3-meter) wingspan, hit 474 mph (763 km/h) on the speed readout over Parker Mountain near Acton, California, on October 16. At the end of that flight he flew it into the hillside. Manor posted the run and the wreckage the next day on his Manorcraft YouTube channel, where the video ha...