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Quad vs. Ram, guess who won!

This is one ram who does not like it’s picture taken. After being harassed by quad copter the ram decides to fight back. And when the owner comes to pick up his property, the angry ram teaches him a lesson about invading personal privacy. We like this video.

Unique view of earthquake damage shot by quadcopter

Napa Valley in the central valley of California, is famous for their wine vineyards and wine tasting tours. On August 24 they had a substantial earthquake that caused a lot of wine bottles to fall off the shelf and a lot of whining from wine connoisseurs about the loss of some fine wine. 99% of […]

Flying an FPV Multirotor at a Hot Air Balloon Festival

In this episode, the Roswell Flight Test Crew returns to the Tigard Festival of Balloons, giving viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the their article entitled “Up, Up & Away!” in Issue #2 of RotorDrone Magazine. In addition to conducting daylight and nighttime flight operations, the crew is recruited by the festival’s flight director to do […]

Urban Zipline!

Here is another great video from Devingraham (Devinsupertramp) showing the behind-the-scenes footage of his latest video shoot down in Panama, where they do urban zip lining from one of the tallest buildings there. Check out the multi-rotor drone they use for capturing some of the footage. There’s even an interview with the pilot who talks […]

Third Person Driving with a Drone

Here is a great story showing us a fun way to use a drone while setting up a challenging competition. Now we don’t recommend anybody trying this out at home, but on a close course with professional drivers this is rather entertaining and can be quite a challenging event. This is from the sUAS site […]

Watch a Murderous Quadrotor Drone Take a Hacky Sack Break

It’s pretty clear by this point that a quadrotor drone’s main mission is to fly through out windows and kill us in our sleep. But what do they do for fun? Just juggle a ball better than I ever could The Swiss cousin of UPenn’s quadrotor assassin, this flying juggler blows off steam at Zurich’s Institute […]

Peeping drone? Seattle woman allegedly spied on by Skyris quadcopter

A Seattle woman called the police after she found an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, hovering outside the window of her apartment, located on the 26th floor. On Sunday, June 22, Lisa Pleiss noticed the drone at around 7:45 a.m. She immediately contacted her concierge who called Seattle Police to investigate. […]

Quadcopter becomes a flying 3D printer

Source: http://www.gizmag.com/flying-3d-printer-robot/31975/ The swiftlet may not look much different than other little birds, but it has one unique ability – it builds its nest out of its own saliva. Inspired by the swiftlet, scientists at Imperial College London’s Aerial Robotics Lab have created a robotic quadcopter that can extrude polyurethane foam while in flight. By targeting […]

Could a quadcopter land rovers on Mars?

Taking a page from NASA’s rocket powered landing craft from it most recent Mars landing mission, the European Space Agency is showing off a quadcopter that the organization says can steer itself to smoothly lower a rover onto a safe patch of the rocky Martian surface. The ESA said its dropship, known as the StarTiger’s […]

A behind the scenes look at the BMW i3 shoot

A promotional film shot at night time to showcase the new electric BMWi3 has used atmospheric aerial footage from the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. anviFILMS, based in Alsbach-Hähnlein, specializes in dynamic, fully stabilized aerial video production for clients ranging from extreme sports to holiday destinations. Using a range of roto-copters, drones and gimbals, its footage […]