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Drone Photo Tips from the Pros

Learning a new craft, such as filming from a drone, can be a time consuming adventure. As with any learning curve, advice from experts in the field is invaluable and worth its weight in gold. That’s why we asked eight of the best aerial shooters we know to share their tips and tricks on how you can improve your […]

Drone Racing: Programming a Flight Controller

Simple, easy and quick setup tips After you’ve installed all of the equipment into your multirotor, the next step is to program the flight controller. This may appear to be a daunting task, but if you just follow the steps outlined here you will find that this process is simple, easy and quick. Plus most […]

Camera Drones: 10 Top Picks

From the very start, the combination of digital camera and rotor drones has been a match made in heaven. For years, people have been trying to get bird’s-eye views with their sports cameras, and now, it’s easier than ever to get those high-quality, one-of-a-kind airborne shots. Our editors have reviewed many rotordrone products, and these top 10 camera drones have a lot to offer. Whether you shoot video or are looking for […]

CES: 6 Top Drones & Gear

At the 2017 CES extravaganza in Las Vegas, we were blown away by the new, innovative drones and gear on display! As the media sponsor of CES here are RotorDrone’s top picks from the event. Wingsland S6 4K Pocket Intelligent Drone This pocket selfie drone can take off from your hand and record 4K […]

Hitec Phantom X4 Charger

From Hitec: Attention All DJI™ Phantom Phanatics! Hitec’s Phantom X4 Charger is our four-channel battery charger designed and built exclusively for charging, storing and deep cycling four DJI Phantom™ 3 and DJI Phantom™ 4* Smart Batteries simultaneously. In addition, two smart devices can be charged via USB ports and two remote controllers can be charged […]

Dromida XL 370mm UAV Camera Drone RTF

Looking for large, bold flying fun? Look no further than the Dromida XL. Extra-large and in charge, the XL takes aerial adventure to thrilling new heights. One push of the Auto Takeoff/Landing button makes the XL soar up to 2 meters in the air; another button-push safely brings you back down to Earth. Pushing “Altitude […]

Soldering up a drone racer power board

The first step in getting your drone racer ready is by soldering the ESCs (speed controllers) to the power board. Here is one soldering method our Senior West Coast Editor, John Reid uses on all of his racers.

The Rise RXS270

Getting into the world of drone racing often requires building the quad from a kit and soldering all of the ESCs and motors to the flight controller. The new RISE RXS270 is attempting to change all of that with an almost-ready-to-fly racer. It is designed with lightweight carbon-fiber construction and made for the intermediate to expert pilot. To read more on […]

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 […]

Close Range Aerial Filming

Skynamic work is always fantastic and fun to watch. Here is one of their showreels that we are sure you will enjoy. Skynamic Showreel (Close Range Aerial Filming) from skynamic.net on Vimeo.