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Drone Carried Life Jacket to Wet, Cold Kids

Great story from the International Business Times by Jeff Stone. Just another way to use drones in our everyday life. Firefighters had to use a drone to save a teenager and a younger boy when they became stuck on a rock in the middle of a raging current. Rescue crews tried to reach the pair […]

Drones are used to successfully control festival traffic by the Dutch

Leave it to the Dutch to figure out how to use drones to speed up traffic in rural areas. The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment used three Altura Zenith ATX 8 drones to monitor the traffic leading to and from the Concert at Sea festival in Zeeland. The drones monitored an area of 30 […]

11 Dos and Dont’s of RC Drone Flying

There are many questions in the air about whether it is legal to fly commercially, even as the dust clears after the November 18, 2014 National Transportation Safety Board decision in Huerta v. Pirker. The Board reversed Raphael Pirker’s win against the FAA in early 2014 by finding that “model aircraft” are “aircraft” and must […]

A behind the scenes video from our latest cover photo shoot

Check out this great video from Christian Quezada, all taken during out cover photo shoot at the prison. We started out early in the morning and traveled to a remote location located in the middle of the Mojave Desert. There we set up for a rather fun photo shoot throughout the rest of the day. […]

Aerial Photography

Thanks to the advent of smaller and lighter cameras that can easily be attached to our multirotors, more and more pilots are getting their high-quality shots and HD video from the sky. Let’s discuss lifting cameras into the sky by multirotor and how to guide your camera through the air. For more, click on the […]

Skyworks Aerial Systems Drone Kit

Check out this Kickstarter campaign! Eedu is a drone kit with configurable hardware and software options. Great learning tool for kids (and the inventor/kid in all of us!). Love the video.

Cleveland Air Show

Since the advent of the Cleveland National Air Show in 1964, the only way to get this view of Burke Lakefront Airport has been to be part of performance, as a professional stunt pilot, a member of the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds, or perhaps the Golden Knights parachute team. This year, rotordrones captured this perspective with their onboard cameras as […]

The Best Drone Flights – 2015

Extreme Drone Crashes – Compilation 2015

This robot bat drone is the stuff of nightmares

It’s the drone the world deserves, but not the one it needs right now. Scientists at the University of Illinois are working on a fully autonomous bat-like drone to supervise construction sites. According to the university’s website, the drones would be used to make sure the project is proceeding as it’s supposed to. “The bats would fly around, pay attention, […]