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Asked and Answered – Post-flight inspection

What is the best procedure for doing a post-flight inspection of my multirotor? Answer: It is also extremely important to measure the voltage of the LiPo battery pack immediately after the flight. The LiPo pack should be warm to the touch and slightly swollen. You also want to check the total pack voltage and confirm […]

XHover MXP300 Review

XHover has quickly become a household name in the first-person-view (FPV) quadcopter world, with hundreds of its designs out there being used and abused. The MXP300 is the latest in the XHover lineup, and it offers a larger platform for carrying extra gear, such as GPS or your GoPro camera. The MXP300 is constructed entirely […]

8 Top Chargers

A charger is an essential investment that will pay dividends in the performance of your battery pack. Ease of use, safety features, and adaptability are important considerations when you’re in the market for a new charger, and here we bench-test the latest units available, tell you what we found, so that you can pick the […]

Tiny Whoop FPV Flights

This very small quad makes flying FPV at home FUN.This is one of the most agile and controllable little FPV around. The first video shows how the Tiny Whoop can fly in and around trees limbs with ease. Enjoy Tiny Whoop in attack mode:

Great Aerial Footage from a Drone

Some very nice aerial footage done by RC Aerial Cam. All shot on RED Epic and FS-100. Once you are done watching this you will want to head out with your drone and shoot your next epic film. RC Aerial Cam, Aerial Reel from RC Aerial Cam on Vimeo.

Air Bali, Drone View

This wonderful video comes to us from John Sullivan who made this video of his beautiful inland. John States that he wanted to explore his home of Bali in a different way and what better way to get the drone out and see it from above. Riding on a scooter for two weeks and getting […]

Aerial Archaeology

While many people use their drones to shoot dynamic videos, I prefer taking still photography. To me the DJI Phantom is the ideal platform to do aerial photography in general and archaeological pictures in particular: Historic ruins are often not very impressive seen from the ground, where all we are left with is a foot […]

UAV Delivery for $3.00!

This could change the course of Drone delivery services, maybe even speed up the development of drone programing. The future is close! R. Cordova, CA (April 25, 2016) – The Uvionix nSKY service is about to offer $3 UAV deliveries from vendors within 6 miles around you. Deployed directly at your local restaurant or retailer, […]

Exclusive – The Yuneec Typhoon H!

We were lucky enough to get one of the early releases of the Yuneec Typhoon H and we have been having a ton of fun with it. It comes packed with a number of features that will bring out the cinematographer in everyone. We have been putting it through its paces since we got it […]

Into the Volcano

This was published a little over a year ago, but is still one of the best video clips from a drone. Here is the background story on that video clip that you most likely have seen many times. Video technology and science converge on an active volcano in Vanuatu, where explorer Sam Cossman operated camera-mounted […]