Kelly Shores

If you want to get into FPV racing you can either spend hours and a fair amount of money building your own FPV racer or you can spend several hundred dollars buying a ready to fly FPV racer from one of the big manufacturers. Aerix is offering an alternative idea – a ready to fly FPV racing drone for under $200. With novice-friendly features like interchangeable batteries and an altitude hold...

The telephone and cellular phone provider giant AT&T is testing the use of drones to improve LTE cellular data signals. The idea is that drones can be used to fill in signals in areas where there is not a signal or where existing towers get overloaded. If you have ever been to a festival where there are thousands of people, you know how cellular data signals can diminish.  Drones make it possi...

DJI, the world leader in consumer drone technology, has bought a share of medium format camera manufacturer Hasselblad. And while we don’t expect to see medium format cameras on the consumer models that DJI makes any time soon, they are offering a high end (around $10,000 USD) combination drone, gimbal and medium format camera on the DJI M600. The DJI M600 features DJI’s A3 flight controller...

In Jacksonville, Florida, a company called Drone Aviation is building high-end UAVs for a variety of different applications. Drone Aviation’s custom built aircraft cost between $50,000 and $350,000 each.  These drones  are designed specifically for high-end use for military, public safety and industrial applications. In addition to the propeller drones that carry cameras for surveillance and...

If you have not heard of or used Dronestagram, it is definitely worth checking out. It is a site for images taken by drones, which gives you a perspective that you can’t get on the ground.  This year, over 6,000 photos were submitted from around the world by professional photographers and amateur drone enthusiasts for the contest organized by Dronestagram in partnership with National Geograp...

We have all heard about Amazon and Wal Mart’s plans to use drones to deliver goods and packages right to their customers’ front doors. But the prospect of actually attaching a package to your drone is not as easy as it sounds. Sure you could tie something to the landing skids. Or bungee cord it around the airframe to make sure that it doesn’t come off in flight. But how would you...

Drone pilots are spoiled by the amazing GPS and stabilization hardware and software in modern UAVs. But that does not come without a cost. This video shows the amazing lengths that developers go to in order to understand how wind and currents push drones to their limits! Check out the video here.

DJI has teamed up with a Swiss technology company, Flyability, to create a new drone design that is very durable and crash tolerant. They are calling this the Elios drone and it integrates DJI’s  Lightbridge 2 technology, a reliable image transmission system to send clear signals through tight industrial spaces like steel pipes and cement structures, Elios is designed within a unique physica...

Drones are here to stay. As the technology progresses and takes hold, there will be more and more of them in the sky. Dedrone, a company founded in Germany and now headquartered in California has come up with a system of hardware and software to track drones and deliver real time information about the whereabouts and status of drones in your airspace. The DroneTracker uses a combination of acousti...

If you fly a DJI Phantom 4, you know how well designed this high performance quadcopter is. Despite its amazing design and performance, there has been little in the way of accessories for the Phantom 4 until now. Drone World http://www.drone-world.com is now carrying a variety of new products specifically designed for the DJI Phantom 4. These include carbon fiber propellers, the THOR supercharging...

As anyone who flies drones professionally or as a hobby knows, the FAA has been somewhat slow to define the rules around drones and give guidance to the millions of hobbyists who currently enjoy the sport of drone flying. That said, this June the FAA released new guidance that should help to clear up some of the confusion about what the rules will be going forward. The four main takeaways from the...

Generally drone pilots fly drones meaning that they push levers and give commands and the drones follow. But some groups are turning that model on its head by making drones interact with humans in a much more interesting way. Using cutting edge localization technology and algorithms, a troupe of eight flying machines has been performing in a Cirque du Soleil Broadway show called Paramour. The dron...