Method0040

Show the label. Keep the date.

A silver camera drone sitting on a table with flyers and papers at an indoor technology event. — A camera drone on a table with papers at a technology event, 26 April 2026. The methodology page is about labels and dates, not about this exhibit. Shixart1985 · CC BY 2.0 · source page · owner-review-pending

What this edition is

A local noindex reader over the hobby-drone research pack copied from _MORE_WEBSITES/drones-research. Working name only. No domain. Sprigpost publication is disabled.

Confidence

Catalog confidence labels such as verified and secondary are inherited from the supplied research, not independent verification by this reader edition. A later research round can record a correction, but neither its round number nor its label proves a claim. Recheck the underlying source.

The expanded field library

The 21 new field guides have their own primary-source links, claim-support notes, research lineage, and source-check dates. Their practical scenarios are editorial examples, not interviews, measurements, or product tests. Prepared and checked 19 September 2026; not publicly published. Explore the field library.

What we held back

The old curated rules and power summaries repeated precise September 2026 FCC, tariff, overseas-rule, and model-specific claims from the research pack. Those statements have been removed from the reader-facing desks pending independent primary-source verification. The source notebook is unchanged so the original claims and contradictions remain inspectable. No replacement legal or market conclusion is implied.

Dates

release_date and rule dates are source/event dates. Retrieval and research dates are 15–17 September 2026. This website has no published_at. Do not backdate the site.

Military boundary

Public manufacturer pages, official releases, and encyclopedia-level systems context only. No construction, weaponization, targeting, tactics, or electronic-warfare instruction.

What still moves

Prices, FCC docket outcomes, tariff stacking, and grey-market listings changed through 2025–2026. Re-verify before any public page. Briefs that conflict with a later round are evidence of the conflict, not a license to pick the more convenient number.

Model counts in this build: 86 airframes · 57 FPV gear rows · 75 adjacent platforms · 52 military platform rows.

Category mix (models): 360_fpv 2 · consumer_camera 35 · educational 3 · fixed_wing 11 · fpv_bnf 26 · fpv_rtf 5 · integrated_fpv 1 · vtol 3.

Research method

Method notes

Use the full notebook to inspect retained source extracts. The catalog and site copy are a local editorial reading layer, not the evidence store.

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