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Drone Gets a Paint Job

Great paint job! Why didn’t we think of that? This thing is still one of my favorites to grab and fly! #AsikDrone #CustomPhantom #CustomPaint by #AsickCo #AsickCoFx #customdjiphantom #dji #Phantom #DjiPhantom #Quadcopter #Quadcopters #Drone #Drones #Dronie #Dronies #RotorDroneMag #sloMo #dronegear #Dronesdaily #KingBunE #MiamiDrone #MiamiDrones #305 #Miami A video posted by A-Sick-Co. FX (@asikdrone) on Nov […]

The Top 10 Stories of 2015, #10 Roomba

Here is the first of our top 10 stories of 2015 #10 Starting out with #10 is this is a very cool drone, the story comes to us from Gizmag.com by Nick Lavars Having already built a pair of industry-oriented drones, Roomba co-designer Helen Grainer’s startup CyPhy Works has made its first flirt with the […]

The Giant Megakopter Flies!

Well it looks like the Megakopter took its first flight just a couple of days ago. This giant Drone is equipped with 48 propellers and is capable of lifting a large payload. This bird is a drone built by the university of Oslo, Department of Informatics, and is said to be the world’s largest hobby […]

Sinclair College Opens Dedicated Drone Pavilion

Sinclair College, home to the National UAS Training and Certification Center, is now home to the world’s first permanent, custom-built unmanned aerial systems (UAS) indoor flying facility following a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 17, coinciding with the 112th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight. The UAS Indoor Flying Pavilion is the […]

FAA Announces All Drone Pilots Must Register

The FAA has just announced that all small unmanned aircraft operators (read: multi-rotor pilots) must register with the FAA by February 19th to avoid a $5 registration fee. The registration is good for three years, and you will be given a unique identification number that you need to place in/on all of your aircraft. Here’s the […]

World Drone Prix

The winner of the first World Drone Prix this March, which organizers say will be the world’s biggest drone race, could win a grand prize of $1 million! At the World Air Games at Skydive Dubai’s Palm drop zone, Minister of Cabinet Affairs Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi said that the upcoming Drone Prix represents the […]

New Drone Footage from Chernobyl

This video shows some new footage shot from a drone flying over the Chernobyl nuclear power plane, the site of the nuclear reactor disaster that happened in 1986. This video released by EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) focuses on the arch that will shelter the damage reactor 4, upon completion and late 2017. […]

Snowstorm – Personal Flying Machine

Maybe one day instead of hopping in the car to go to the grocery store you just hop into your personal multirotor aircraft. This was advertised as “Singapore’s first personal indoor flying machine”, although if used for indoor flying you may be bothering quite a few people when they get around that prop blast. Still […]

Fleye a new personal flying robot

What would a drone from the future look like? At Fleye, they had a dream of small, autonomous, flying machines floating around and helping us in our daily lives. For them it was the kind of flying robot they we were dreaming about as children when reading Sci-Fi comic books. Now they have their […]