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Drone Pilot Position

Finding the right position to stand when flying your drone can make the difference between a great aerial video and a crashed drone. Here are a few quick tips on finding the perfect location to make it easy to see your drone and any obstacles that may hinder your flight.

Drone Recovery

Here is a quick video on how to recover your drone once you lose orientation of its direction.

RotorDrone Photo Contest

Photo by: Brent Wellander We are now accepting entries for the RotorDrone Photo Contest. Be sure to check out all the rules and how to enter by clicking on the logo:

DJI Mavic Air [VIDEO]

From DJI: A marvel of engineering and design, the Mavic Air was built to go wherever adventure takes you. Inheriting the best of the Mavic series, this ultraportable and foldable drone features high-end flight performance and functionality for limitless exploration. 32 MP Sphere Panoramas Foldable & Portable 3-Axis Gimbal & 4K Camera 3-Directional Environment Sensing […]

Hefty Fine for Drunk Drone Flying

You would think this would be the last thing a governor would worry about on his last day in office, but it was one of Chris Christie’s last acts as governor Don’t drink and drone. That’s the message from the state of New Jersey, which passed a law on Monday that makes it illegal to […]

Looking to get into Drones? Check out what makes multi-rotors tick!

Checking out the drone news, you’ll see that it happens a lot. We’ll be we on a photo shoot with a new rotordrone and a passerby will hang back a while and finally ask “Hey! That’s cool, how does your quadcopter work?” Well, we always stop what we’re doing to give them the basic “five […]

Rotor Riot – YouTube’s FPV Lifestyle Show

In January 2016, an action-packed web show appeared on YouTube aimed specifically at the burgeoning first person- view (FPV) multirotor community. But unlike earlier attempts, this one eschewed technical language, avoided instructional videos, and circumnavigated hobbyist clichés, opting instead for something a lot more exciting. Taking cues from snowboarding and skating videos, it portrayed the […]

How to Solder Battery Connectors

John Reid offers up some tips for soldering on a new connector to your flight battery. This video will take you from the start to the finish on a critical skill: soldering.

Drone Robo Bee

Everything that grows and is harvested in agriculture is dependent on pollination. Bats, birds, bees, and other flying insects are the main pollinators that we depend on to pollinate our crops. According to a recent United Nations report, about 75 percent of the world’s crops, including apples, oranges, cherries, carrots, and even coffee, depend at […]

What Programming Features are Helpful for Flying Drones?

To begin with, dual rates are helpful as they affect the speed at which your model changes roll, pitch, or yaw orientation for a given stick input. There are no hard and fast rules for dual rates as they are dependent on your own preferences. For drone racing, I like to have a lower rate […]