UAV News Talk

UAV News Talk is your go-to source for drone, UAV, UAS, and eVTOL news. We cover the latest developments in drone regulations, pilot certification, emerging tech, advanced air mobility (AAM), and real-world use cases across industries. Whether you’re a drone pilot, developer, policy maker, or just ...

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Amazon Drone Delivery Backlash, AI Drone Swarms & Prison Drone Fails

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Sept. 24, 2026

Amazon Drone Delivery Backlash, AI Drone Swarms & Prison Drone Fails

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

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Thermal Drone Pet Rescue, Drone Business & Orlando Drone Show Crash

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Sept. 16, 2026

Thermal Drone Pet Rescue, Drone Business & Orlando Drone Show Crash

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

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U.S. Laser Downs Cartel Drones, 737 Drone Near-Miss & Amazon Expands

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Sept. 9, 2026

U.S. Laser Downs Cartel Drones, 737 Drone Near-Miss & Amazon Expands

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

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Drone Delivery Explodes: Amazon Targets 500 Locations as New Drone Fees Spread

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Sept. 1, 2026

Drone Delivery Explodes: Amazon Targets 500 Locations as New Drone Fees Spread

Drone delivery has been promising to transform last-mile logistics for years, but the industry may finally be approaching the point where the technology moves from limited trials to widespread deployment. In episode 450 of UAV News Talk, Max Trescott and David Vanderhoof examine Amazon’s plans to dramatically expand drone delivery into hundreds of additional locations. The company’s proposed expansion comes as other major players are scaling up as well. Alphabet subsidiary Wing plans hundreds

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About the Hosts

Max Trescott

President

Max Trescott is President of Glass Cockpit Publishing, which owns the Aviation Podcast Network. He is the 2008 National CFI of the Year, selected to represent the 96,000 flight instructors in the U.S. He’s written three books on the Garmin G1000, G3000 and on GPS and WAAS and has online courses for the G1000 at PilotLearning.com. He's also trained in accident investigation at USC.

He lives in the S.F. Bay Area and is a Cirrus Platinum CSIP instructor teaching in Cirrus Aircraft, including the Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet. He became a cohost for the Airplane Geeks podcast in 2015. He started the Aviation News Talk podcast in 2017, which focuses on general aviation and safety. Of the over 250 aviation-related podcasts, Aviation News Talk typically ranks #1 or #2. He's also writes a monthly column for FLYING magazine.

David Vanderhoof

Cohost

David grew up around aircraft. His father was Base Civil Engineer for the USAF 913th TAG at Willow Grove, PA. His first toy was an airplane; from that point on he never stopped looking up. David graduated from Temple University with a degree in Military History and Diplomacy, focusing on the air wars of the Middle East. Realizing that there was no money in knowing about the Air Orders of Battle of Israel and the rest of the Middle Eastern States, and he needed to eat, he eventually landed in a career as a marketing professional.

He founded and co-hosted the original The UAV Digest podcast with Max Flight, who has since left the show. The show name was later changed to UAV News Talk.

David is a plastic modeler, photographer, and reader. You will always find him paging through books looking up some obscure piece of information, or “geeking” out on the latest episode of Doctor Who! He can be found on his blog What Just Flew By?