With the rise of both commercial, hobby and military drones in the sky, many companies and governments have been focusing on how to shoot them down and stop them from flying overhead. The main way to take down a drone has been to use a laser to disrupt the drone’s navigation and optical sensors. To counter act this, some military drones are now being equipped with their own lasers that are u...

The xCraft Rogue is definitely one of the fastest RTF (ready to fly) FPV racing drones that you can buy today. The big difference between it and a regular racing quadcopter is the booster motor attached to the back of the craft. This motor drives a horizontally mounted propeller that pushed the aircraft to crazy speeds with the flip of a switch. While most racing drones use the 4 vertical propelle...

Everyone has seen kite surfing. It’s the sport where surfers use the power of the wind instead of waves to glide across the water. With drone surfing, the participants are connected to a drone to pull them. Because it takes a very powerful drone to pull someone across the water, the Alta 8 Octocopter has been the drone of choice to pull surfers who are light enough for the task. Check out th...

The United States military is using 3D printing and off the shelf components to build “swarm drones” that can be deployed from the flare dispenser of a jet fighter. These drones, code named “Perdix” are built from commercially available electronics that are then put into a 3D printed fuselage. The purpose of the Perdix drones is more surveillance than attack. “We designed P...

It’s been an exciting month for drones and the pilots that fly them. GoPro announced the Karma and DJI announced the Mavic. But among all of this hype, many people overlooked the other announcement that DJI made. The DJI Goggles. These FPV goggles will put you in the action and promise a big improvement over standard 5.8 Ghz frequency video transmission. The DJI Goggles will use DJI’s ...