drone racing

Drone Racing and Beer?

Generally we would not recommend flying powerful FPV racing drones at high speeds while sipping on an alcoholic beverage. And we still don’t recommend it. However, while watching other people fly at high speeds during televised Drone Racing League events, it sound like a good plan! Budweiser has announced that it will be sponsoring the Drone Racing League. This is a major milestone for the D...

Drone Racing Is Becoming A Weekend Pastime

If you happy to be in Louisville, Kentucky on a weekend at a local park, you will see the usual people out walking their dogs, playing with their children and enjoying the sun. But it won’t take you long to see another group of people wearing strange looking googles and holding futuristic looking transmitters. These people (mostly guys) are drone racers and they are becoming a more and more ...

Professional Baseball Pitcher And Amateur Drone Racer

Trever Bauer is best know as a starting pitcher for the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team. However, during his time off from pitching, he has become an avid drone pilot and often builds his own FPV racing quadcopters. He is known to travel with at least two drones to each game that he goes to and is often seen flying them in public parks around the stadiums where the baseball games take...

The FAI Establishes Rules For Drone Sports

On 10 June 1905, Count Henri de la Vaulx, Vice President of the Aero Club of France, Major Moedebeck of the German Airship League and Fernand Jacobs, President of the Aero Club of Belgium, gave a presentation to the Olympic Congress of Brussels on their proposal for a “Fédération Aéronautique Internationale” (FAI), which would govern the rules for air sports. This includes aerobatics, ...

Inside the DJI Drone Arena

A few months back, we reported that DJI was opening a drone arena in South Korea to host drone flying, education and racing events. Now that the arena has been open for a few months, we thought we’d check back to see what it’s like flying inside this amazing place. They have designed the arena to be very friendly to experts and beginners alike. There are bright LEDs around all of the o...

Tips for FPV Flying

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...

Ford Motor Company Hosts Dronekhana

There seems to be a great crossover between drone pilots and car enthusiasts. And Ford Motor Company realizes this. They recently set up a drone race called “Dronekhana” that pit two top pilots, 16-year-old World Drone Prix champion Luke Bannister and his British countryman, Brett Collis, 22. The two pilots raced around a warehouse filled with various Ford vehicles and other obstacles....

Half Quadcopter Half Rocket – All Speed

In a world of drones dominated by standard designs, the QuadRKT is certainly different. It is neither the usual quadcopter nor the fixed wing design, but rather a combination that allows for vertical take off and landing as well as horizontal flight. This allows it to take off and land from very tight places but still fly at high speeds for longer times. The design was originally developed by the ...

FPV Video Wristwatch

Okay, I have been on a bit of a FPV kick lately, but I have one more device to add to your FPV arsenal. It’s a 5.8Ghz FPV wristwatch called the GTeng T909 and it’s less than $40 US dollars. The performance is pretty good for a screen at this price and the picture quality is certainly high enough quality to follow the action of your FPV racer as it zooms around. To see the specs or buy ...

Drone Racing is Taking Off in Canada

In the past 12 months, drone racing has grown significantly in Canada. This year’s Montreal Drone Expo served as a testing ground and qualifying run for FPV drone pilots who want to make it to higher levels of national and world drone racing competitions. Jason Mainella, who organized the Montreal event, says that although drones have been around for more than 4 years, racing has only grown ...

How to Get Started in FPV Drone Racing

There is no question that drone racing is becoming one of the hottest new sports around. From the immersive nature of it, to the amazing skill of the pilots, drone racing is fun to watch but may seem intimidating to “noobs” who have never tried it before. But fear not, there are some simple steps you can take to break into the sport. The first step is to find a local or online group to...

Drone Racing League Builds Amazing Race Course

Drone Racing League is taking drone racing to the next level with a super futuristic race course in an abandoned shopping mall. DRL worked with special effects experts to design a course that is not only challenging, but visually appealing and geared toward live and television audiences. In addition to the course, DRL builds and supplies all the drones that are used at these events. The drones are...

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