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Martha Stewart Loves Flying Her Fancy Drone All Over Her Farm

In Vanity Fair, Stewart delights in talking about her drone — a fancy “AR 2.0” model by a French company called Parrot — which she only flies around outside (it would just “bang into stuff” indoors, she says.) Stewart tells Vanity Fair, “It has a little camera. You connect it to your iPhone, and you can control […]

Coke delivered by drones

Coke has taken drone flying to new heights. Delivering Coca-Cola products to workers on very high skyscrapers in Singapore. This is actually kind of a cool story because guess workers (immigrants) make up a significant part of Singapore’s workforce. They received very little recognition for their labors and are often referred to as “invisible workers” […]

Drone-vertising – Really?

As we said before, multi-rotor aircraft or drones are becoming rather popular and can fill a variety of needs, but we didn’t really see this one coming. We found this story on News10.com and they reported that some entrepreneurs can see another use for drones: advertising. Gauravjit Singh on Monday launched a startup that uses […]

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 […]

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 […]

Drone Pilot Wins in Court

Aerial photographers, surveyors and filmmakers who want to fly small drones in U.S. airspace are able to rejoice after a judge dealt a setback to efforts by federal regulators to rein in use of the unmanned aircraft. Raphael Pirker (left in photo), had been fined $10,000 by the Federal Aviation Administration filming a promotional video […]

America the Beautiful: A Multi-Rotor’s View

Warning: this video will make you want to stop whatever you’re doing and immediately plan a vacation to Arches National Park and the Southwest. Filmed by DTX Media’s stable of multi-rotors, this clip captures some of the most beautiful places in the U.S. A big shout out Jonny Carroll for creating this great video and posting it on […]

Sochi drones capture live video

If you’ve been watching the action on the slopes at the Olympics, you may have spotted a drone flying near the snowboarding athletes. Hooked up with live video feed, they are transmitting video images to live coverage feeds. Why use a drone to film Olympic events? “We can go really, really close. And we are really quiet, […]