Boston provides another reminder that rapidly deploying new technology inevitably produces operational lessons. The Boston Police Department launched a Drone as a First Responder program in partnership with Motorola Solutions and BRINC. Within days, one of the drones came down onto a parked Mazda 3, causing more than $500 in damage. Fortunately, nobody was in the car. The owner returned home to discover a note explaining that the police drone had struck his vehicle. Max emphasizes that accidents

The Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 crash in Miami remains the lead story in this episode as new information from the NTSB provides important details about the final seconds of Flight 7598. The Boeing 767 ran off the end of the runway at Miami at more than 100 knots. In the previous episode, Max Trescott analyzed the aircraft’s ADS-B track and found that the airplane initially appeared to be descending normally before leveling at approximately 1,600 feet. That left the Boeing about 500 feet above

What can you actually do with a commercial drone business? Michael Parziale's answer seems to be: just about anything. Michael is the founder and team leader of the U.S.A.R. Drone Team, and his path into commercial drones began almost by accident. A longtime manned-aircraft pilot, he temporarily couldn't fly because of a medical issue and bought a small DJI drone after trying one owned by a friend. That eventually led him to professional thermal drones—and to search and rescue. Michael

Episode 451 of UAV News Talk begins with its Video of the Week, showing what looks like a “shark superhighway” off the North Carolina coast. Hundreds of sharks can be seen traveling in surprisingly orderly streams in both directions close to shore, providing another example of how drones can reveal things that would be almost impossible to appreciate from ground level. The first major news story involves the U.S. military’s growing use of directed-energy weapons for counter-UAS operations. An