Flying FPV (first person view) is challenging. And racing at high speed through gates and other obstacles is even more challenging! If you want to get good, it takes a ton of practice. This video won’t let you skip the practice, but it will help you learn about and hopefully avoid some common mistakes that drone pilots make when they are first learning to fly FPV. Check out the 7 common mist...

While many people are embracing drones for sport and for video, agriculture is fast becoming one of the most important uses for drones. Monitoring crops, delivering specific chemicals and mapping fields are all things that drones do much more efficiently and quickly than traditional methods. The big shift is happening in the kind of drones that are being deployed for these types of tasks. Even tho...

The six-rotor PD6B-AW-ARM drone is equipped with two arms that include grasping hand-like “claws” on their ends. These claws are designed to pick up and carry things like a sort of airborne crane. The PD6B-AW-ARM was released at the Interdrone conference and is produced by the company Prodrone.  With a 30 minute flight time, a press release about the drone says that it can be used R...

The drone startup Aptonomy has developed an aerial security guard on the back of a DJI S-1000+ drone. The drone is equipped with visible as well as infrared lighting, a loudspeaker, a microphone, facial recognition software, and, of course, a high definition camera to capture any suspicious activity. This “flying security guard” could be used in many places where humans find it difficu...

A group called the “Quad Squad” recently had a chance to zoom through the historic old Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which has been abandoned for decades. This group took advantage of the large, cavernous space to fly at high speeds. The hope is to raise awareness of these old historical treasures and to have some fun racing quadcopters. For flyin...