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Battery Wattage

How do you calculate wattage? Answer: This is a common call we get at Venom, and most of the time it goes like this: “I’m trying to charge my three-cell 5000mAh battery at 5.0A, but it only gets to 3A.” The charger allows you to set the 3S 5000mAh pack to charge at 5.0A, but it never actually gets […]

Santa Gets a New Ride

Santa just upgraded from Donner and Blitzen to a custom drone! In this video YouTuber Casey Neistat uses a drone to pull himself, dressed as asnowboarding Santa, and even shows him using the drone to “fly” himself over a house. Kids, don’t try this at home!

7-Eleven Drone Delivery

When you need a Slurpee and a hot dog but can’t get to the nearest 7-Eleven, Flirtey has you covered! The company recently announced that they have completed 77 autonomous drone deliveries to customer homes in the U.S. — the first of its kind in this country! This November, Flirtey delivered items on weekends to […]

Our Top 10 Posts of 2016

These are our top ten posts of 2016 Number 10 This Eagle Wants to Kill Your Drone No joke: this bird of prey is trained to capture rogue drones. Dutch police, working with a raptor training company called “Guard From Above” demonstrated the eagle’s drone-disabling skills in this video, in which the trained eagle grabs a […]

FPV Freestyle!

One of the newest events coming out of FPV racing is the informal aerobatic competition known as “freestyle.” This event usually follows the FPV racing contest and is performed on the same racecourse, with the option of using the gates and flags as part of the pilot’s routine. Right now, freestyle is very informal and optional, but interest in this offshoot of […]

RotorDrone Magazine at the International Drone Expo (IDE)

We had a great time at the IDE (International Drone Expo) this last weekend. It was fun checking out some new products, new vendors, and sitting in on some very informative seminars about everything drone. Be sure to enjoy the nice video from our good friend Bapu at the end.

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Amazon Makes Its First Commercial Drone Delivery

Last week Amazon made its first customer delivery by drone near Cambridge, U.K. Carrying a package containing popcorn and a Fire TV video-streaming device several miles to a two-story farmhouse in a rural corner of England. Right now, the drone delivery service is just flying packages to two customers, however Amazon plans on expanding its […]