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Another aspect of this drone drama is that Donald Trump Jr. owns 200,000 shares of an obscure drone company called Unusual Machines which will receive a $620 million loan from the DOD. I will let everyone draw their own conclusions of what has transpired here.

Below is the actual update to the Covered List with the definition of critical components below that. Which critical components are banned is ambiguous although I only see a couple of bloggers questioning it. My personal belief is that critical components that were certified along with the...

What the FCC is referring to as UAS Critical Components are all part of the documentation package submitted for FCC certification so yes, specific components/items are indirectly approved for use with a specific drone. The UAS CC list in the Public Notice comprises of: Data transmission...

My understanding is when a product such as a DJI Drone is certified by the FCC that all of it's critical components including batteries, RF transmitter/receiver, control boards, etc. are part of the certification. The Covered list for UAS and UAS Critical Components is directed at new...

While labor cost is a major consideration for the US when outsourcing to other low cost regions, it is only a portion of why American manufacturing is so expensive. Manufacturing in the US is costly because of all of the entities that contribute to overhead costs such as insurance, capital...

Transportation dollars on average are relatively small compared to the overall cost of building a product. The main advantage of having suppliers near you is to minimize production interruptions due to material shortages.

The US Government will provide large dollar subsidies for companies to develop consumer and commercial drones to replace DJI products. Those companies will legally hire and sponsor ex-DJI engineers and scientists to accelerate the development and design. ICE will come along and arrest and...

I looked up your components and they will draw somewhere between 75 to 180 watts under load. Assuming that you will want to run a total of 4 hours before recharging a power station, I would recommend a 600 Watt-hour unit. This is very conservative and since you are only streaming, you will...

It depends on what print media and level of quality that you are looking for. Nations Photo Lab, Mpix and Printique are generally considered really good. I've had a few large prints made at Costco which I thought were good quality and priced very well. Unfortunately, they've contracted their...

Yesterday morning I received my first AirSense notification with my Air 3S and I believe I just had that update. Let us know your results.

Yes, you are going to be burning through a lot of power. Can you provide the power requirements for you laptop? Also, how long are you planning to run for a session? My guess is you are going to need something that provides several hundred watt-hours like a Jackery or Ecoflow power station.

These days it is very easy to cherry pick information to create a specific narrative without any context to the bigger picture. I believe that China has a much higher rate in traffic deaths per capita than the US which may be a consequence of relaxing regulations and not enforcing laws. In...

Here's a hypothetical for everyone. What if you knew the drone operator that was flying near the Palisades Fire (Los Angeles) and were aware that he was going to fly in the area prior to any incident? Would you have contacted authorities and reported him while he was flying? Why or why...

What I should have said is that no where in the Constitution or it's Amendments does it state that a foreign company has the right to conduct business in the US. As far as I know, most of the cases that you are citing involve either the foreign company breaking a law (contract, patent, tax...

If DJI is put on the covered list, the FCC has the power to do nasty things to DJI products in the US. The FCC Chairman, Brandon Carr, hates DJI Drones and has referred to them as “Huawei on Wings”. And we all know how things worked out for Huawei. Although we do not know what will happen...