Monthly Archives2017 March

The FAA expects the U.S. commercial drone fleet to grow from 42K at the end of 2016 to about 442K aircraft by 2021 (but there could also be as many as 1.6M commercial drones in use by then). The key difference in its growth estimates is in “how quickly the regulatory environment will evolve, enabling more widespread […]

The big story in the drone industry over the last year has been the collapse of several high-profile consumer-facing efforts and a pivot to industrial-grade units. Now the market leader is getting in on the action. DJI announced the Matrice 200 today, an all-weather unit that can carry up to three cameras at once and […]