Low-Altitude Daily · Archive
Low-Altitude Daily archive, 5 issue
- 112026-11Two Guangdong Firms Recall Drones Over Missing Safety FeaturesOn Nov 10, the State Administration for Market Regulation disclosed two voluntary drone recalls: Guangdong Nuobaman recalled 74 units across four models, and Guangdong Dongxiang recalled 464 units across seven models. The defects center on missing or incomplete geofencing, sense-and-avoid, and remote identification. Both recalls involve airspace and personal safety risks, exposing gaps in compliance safety features on entry-level drones and showing that recalls are becoming a routine tool of low-altitude safety governance.
- 102026-11China advances aviation emergency response and low-altitude logistics on the same dayThe C909 firefighting aircraft made its debut in a national-level live forest fire exercise, testing the high-altitude airspace adaptability and precision drop capability of a domestically converted fixed-wing platform. JD Logistics launched a large drone feeder route in Xinjiang, using drone feeder transport for the 11.11 shopping festival for the first time, and disclosed the scale of its village-level drone delivery network. The two developments point to emergency rescue and commercial logistics as two low-altitude application tracks, each grounded in specific aircraft types, routes and time-performance data.
- 092026-11A player's field test exposes the compliance gray zone in drone video transmissionToday the low-altitude sector offered only one usable public lead: a V2EX user says his drone's video transmission range collapsed in urban Kuala Lumpur, but after switching to a third-party app and an Australian FCC mode, it still held a signal at 2km behind an obstructed high-rise. The case shows how consumer drone video transmission is shaped by regional RF settings, and it exposes the compliance risk of users switching power modes themselves to bypass local limits.
- 082026-116G Base Stations Double as Radar; Solar Drone Pushes Toward 100 HoursOn Nov 7, two developments pointed to the same two underlying variables in the low-altitude economy. First, the next-generation communications network is folding "sensing" into network capabilities: 6G base stations can sense object movement like radar, giving low-altitude aircraft a detection method beyond communications. Second, UAVOS's ApusNeo solar drone has flown continuously for more than 80 hours, pushing toward 100 hours, and reached 14,500 meters in European airspace. The first is an expansion of sensing capability on the infrastructure side; the second is a validation of endurance and altitude ceiling on the platform side. Together they sketch the technical path for low-altitude surveillance and long-endurance operations.
- 072026-11US drone delivery enters factory-building, network-expansion phaseWing announced it will invest up to $125 million over the next two years to build a drone factory in Fort Worth, Texas, providing capacity for Walmart's delivery network as it expands to 270 stores by 2027. A day earlier, rival Zipline closed a $1.5 billion funding round and added 300 Walmart sites. The two leading players are scaling up capacity and sites at the same time, signaling that competition in US drone delivery is shifting from single-point pilots to large-scale infrastructure.