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San Francisco drone takes a great “selfie”

We love this short video clip! In it, Amit Gupta uses a multirotor to take a fantastic “selfie” of some friends, their dogs and himself on Bernal Hill. Check it out! Bernal Hill selfie from Amit Gupta on Vimeo.

Super Shooter: Video & Photo tips, part 3

In the third part of this video series, RotorDrone contributor Gus Calderon discusses the importance of balancing your multirotor’s propellers and how using a gimbal can stabilize your camera for the best photos and videos. video platform video management video solutions video player

Super Shooter: Video & Photo tips, part 2

RotorDrone contributor Gus Calderon discusses using a downlink system and monitor as well as a telemetry system to optimize your multirotor video and photography sessions. video platform video management video solutions video player

RotorDrone: Behind the Scenes

Check out this compilation video from footage we shot during the first issue of RotorDrone! We aren’t having too much fun, are we? This issue goes onsale at newsstands everywhere April 22 and is available digitally at www.AirAgeStore.com. video platform video management video solutions video player

An artistic rotordrone?

Check it out: graffiti artist KATSU uses a multirotor to create art, which will be featured in a gallery in San Jose, CA. According to The Hole gallery, which will be hosting the works at the first Silicon Valley Contemporary art fair, KATSU spent several months experimenting with different weights of paint and different methods […]

Super Shooter: Video & Photo tips, part 1

In the first of three videos on aerial photography, RotorDrone contributor Gus Calderon offers some important preflight checks to ensure your success. Don’t miss his “Super Shooter” article in the inaugural issue of RotorDrone for even more aerial photo and video advice! This issue goes on sale April 22. video platform video management video solutions video player

Rotordrone Rescue! Quadcopter saves beagle puppy

A one-year-old beagle named “Harley” is home safe with his family, thanks to the Branford, CT firefighting team and their DJI Phantom quadcopter! He wandered into a swamp with high cattails in frigid weather and had been missing for over 24 hours. Laura Burban, the director of the Dan Cosgrove Animal Shelter, recounts the story: […]

Drone aids archeological dig

Dr. Neil Smith (right), UC San Diego alumnus and Research Scientist at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), supervises test of a 4-rotor drone with KAUST graduate student, Luca Passone, in the al-Ula oasis, Saudi Arabia. The Saudi project followed expeditions earlier in the year to a site in southern Jordan, and in both places, Tom […]

Dirt ‘n’ Drones Video

We recently caught up with Mike and Chris Barrett, longtime dirt bike riders who have an expensive hobby of filming their friends on the track using multi-rotor drones! They only shoot during practice runs and say that the key is to keep the multirotor in one spot and catch the rider going over a jump […]

Home-Brewed Quads

I’ll admit that multi-rotors haven’t really been my thing. I’m not heavily into aerial photography, and helicopters are just more interesting to me. I do get a kick out of the remarkable work some of the AP wizards have produced, particularly Gary Graf’s amazing flight videos (see Gary’s YouTube channel, FPVFlightSchool, for some examples of […]