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DJI’s New Mini Drone, Spark

DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, Wednesday launched Spark, an easy-to-use, fun-to-fly mini camera drone that lifts off from the palm of your hand to capture and share the special moments in your life on the go. Thanks to DJI’s powerful technology, Spark is the first drone that users can […]

Midwest Drone Fest

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Trade Show, Career Fair and Entrepreneur Fair Learn how drones are improving the way we do business. The focus of this conference is to connect organizations, career-minded UAS (drone) pilots, and industry leaders who are forging the economic development of this emerging industry, with those who want to know more. […]

Drone News: Appeals court ends FAA drone registration rule

Today, a federal appeals court struck down a federal rule that required operators of RC aircraft to register the devices with the Federal Aviation Administration. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that federal law prohibits the FAA from issuing any rules or regulations covering “model aircraft.” The ruling is a win for model […]

Raphael “Trappy” Pirker, midflight
in Venice. Testing and
incorporating new technology is
key to building better products,
but sometimes that involves
modifying what’s available—including
ski masks, apparently.

Drone Rebels

Raphael Pirker and Team BlackSheep Back in 2003, first-person view (FPV) was little more than a half-baked idea in the mind of a young Swiss- Austrian student studying at the University of Zurich. But it was a potent mixture of “why not” attitude, plenty of spare time, and living in a scenic area that led […]

Drones in Mining

This is the third in a new series of Drone Analyst white papers intended to share lessons learned within specific industries. These reports will help you as a business owner in those industries maximize the value that drones can deliver. This year we are building on the analysis we did for the 2016 “Truth About” […]

Horizon Hobby 8xEIGHT Tournament

From Horizon Hobby: Intoducing the Horizon Hobby 8xEIGHT Tournament! Some of our best products will be battling it out!! Use the “Like” and “Love” buttons to vote. Pay close attention to the photo description to be sure your vote is cast correctly! Stay tuned and who knows, there could be a grand prize given away […]

Drones: Expert Tips You Need to Know

13 Pro Tips for Better Flying, Filming, and More Fun When you get your first multirotor, you’ll probably have a barrage of questions about this new endeavor. Here at RotorDrone Magazine, we hear many different “getting started” questions, so we reached out to our experts for their solutions. Now that I have a multirotor where […]

Drones Help to Preserve the American West

Aerial exploration of a gold rush ghost town The folks at Monarch, Inc., and their precision multirotors have surveyed everything from agricultural crops to crime scenes and everything between. When a call came in from the California State Parks system asking if they could fly over a historic gold-mining ghost town to analyze its structures, […]

Drones Light up the Night!

I recently had the fortune of test flying three independent light sources for nighttime flying. Depending on what your project is, you might want to illuminate the crops below you; a person walking or in a vehicle; or your background hills, buildings, etc. Aircraft used for testing purposes were the DJI Phantom 3 Advanced and […]

Up Sonder Now Available Nationwide

Up Sonder is the first and only drone company to use Postmates and Uber for delivery. After an incredibly successful beta launch in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago, on-demand drone marketplace Up Sonder is soaring across the country and ready to help Americans get up and stay up, leveraging Postmates and UberRUSH technology to deliver drones […]