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Drone Antennae (Left vs. Right)

Some antennae have LHCP and other have RHCP. What does that mean? Can they be used together, and is one better than the other? “LHCP” stands for “left-hand circular polarized,” and “RHCP” stands for “right-hand circular polarized.” A LHCP antenna will produce a left-hand corkscrew pattern from the wire lobes, and a RHCP antenna […]

Racing Drones: Cloverleaf and Helical Antenna

A cloverleaf antenna is considered omnidirectional and a helical is directional. An omni-directional antenna sends and receives signals in all directions, so it’s a great choice for video transmitters. A helical antenna produces a cone-shaped signal in front of it and has a small pocket behind it to receive a signal. It will provide better […]

Drone Racing: Tips from Bapu Madhu

When you think of all the racers out there that are making their mark on the droneracing circuit, one person that always seems to be in the thick of things is Bapu Madhu. He competes on both a national and international level with all of the top racers out there. He is known for his […]

Aerial Videos: Big Fly Show Reel

This is one of the nicest show reels we seen for a drone company and we are not the only one to think so. Here is just a partial list of some of the awards they won with this video: Festival : – Festival du Film Professionnel de Drone / Drone Experience (FRANCE) – 2016 […]

Drone Racing Goes Mainstream

“In three days, we probably did seven years’ worth of learning,” said Scot Refsland, the chairman of the Drone Sports Association (DSA) and the organizer of the U.S. National Drone Racing Championship. “From the perspective of some of the individual pilots, I understand that there was some real frustration, but as far as establishing drone […]

Blade Theory XL 5″ BNF Basic Race Quad [VIDEO]

From Blade: The Blade® Theory™ XL 5″ BNF™ Basic race quad is a stretched-X FPV racing drone ready to scream past the competition, with no building, tinkering, or tuning necessary. The stretched-X design offers impressive stability in fast forward flight, and the 4mm frame thickness stands up well to crashes… ideal for a racing […]

Turnigy HS1177 V2 1/3 Sony Color HAD II CCD Camera

From HobbyKing: The HS1177 V2 is a high-performance FPV camera and uses a Sony 1/3 Super HAD II CCD image sensor with 650TVL resolution and outstanding image quality. The package comes with a three position camera mount, so you can angle the camera to your needs, plus an in-line OSD Menu Key making it easy […]

Aerial Videography: Can you spot what is so EXTRAORDINARY about this film?

Its on our web page, so the fact that it was shot entirely with a DJI Inspire X5 doesn’t count. Watch it first, then read the answer below. “At The End Of The Cul-de-Sac” short film by Paul Trillo from Paul Trillo on Vimeo. Figure it out? Maybe you’re thinking that this film […]

Drones Decorate Cakes

This is a cool ad using drones to decorate a cake. It took them three days to film all of this and many double and triple takes. But the end product is a nice video. We especially like the part where the drone tries to fly with the balloons for the first time in the […]

Drone Dunks an Oreo

We are not sure why this needed so many cups of milk. Let’s make this a real challenge and set up five cups of milk, one for each drone. Then see how many oreo cookies make it into the cups. Reportedly some oreos were dunked from as high as the Statue of Liberty, a whopping […]