Here's a roundup of the week's top drone news, designed to capture the military, commercial, non-profit, and recreational applications of unmanned aircraft.

 

Drone pilot Shaun O'Callaghan flew his DJI Phantom quadcopter over a volcano in Vanuatu, an island nation in the South Pacific. "Amazingly," O'Callaghan says, "no Phantoms were harmed while filming!"

Authorities in Melbourne, Australia, arrested two individuals found with drugs and a drone outside of a prison. This isn't the first time people have tried to fly contraband over prison walls with a drone. As drug-smuggling innovations go, it ranks somewhere above a catapult but below a submarine for ingenuity.