county3.news — The National Forest Service is more lax than many other entities when it comes to unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). In most cases, they defer to the FAA standard and have recently issued the following new guidelines for hobbyists to follow:

venturebeat.com — Drone delivery startup Flytrex announced that it has raised $7.5 million to expand service to North Carolina, bringing its total raised to $10.5 million.

ispreview.co.uk — A serious landslide, which cut-off the rural hamlet of Kinloch Hourn in the West Highlands (Scotland) from broadband and phone services, has been reconnected after Openreach (BT) used one of their airborne drones to fly a new cable over the safety exclusion zone, around the landslide, and to the bas…