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"Also, from what I've seen on the mini 3, the red/green lights look the same colour on both sides, which is not what aviation authorities want/require...."
In the one night video I've seen (probably the same one you saw) there's something more complicated going on with the lights. I saw it flying with green/green on both front legs. But at some other point in the same video (maybe on startup?) lights were flashing red. My guess is that there are LEDs (not strobes) on the front legs (so, facing mostly forward), and they can be configured to blink/no-blink (steady) different colors -- maybe that's done automatically, maybe you can specify that. I'd hope that's something that one can set it and forget it.
For FAA compliance, they need to be steady-on red/green (position lights), and I believe there also needs to be a bright white one (visible from some specified distance that I do not recall). The red/green lights I saw in that video looked OK, but not super-bright.
I'm sure that all the details of the way the lights work should emerge soon.
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