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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 ...

xCraft’s Rogue Adds Extra Propeller for Extra Speed

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...

DJI’s Goggles Put You in the Cockpit

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 ...

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...

Grasshopper FPV Racer – More Brute Than Cute

If you look at the Grasshopper FPV racing quadcopter, you might think it looks like a cute little…well…grasshopper! But there is much more going on with this FPV racing quadcopter than you might expect! It takes a 4S battery and has insanely fast motors. This thing can really get up and go! If you are looking for an amazing FPV racer in a single kit (minus the goggles), then the Grassh...

Epson Moverio BT-300 AR Augmented Reality Glasses

Epson has announced a partnership with leading drone manufacturer DJI to release the Epson Moverio BT-300 AR augmented reality glasses that are specifically designed to work with the DJI Phantom and DJI Inspire. These glasses will allow the pilot to see a heads up display (HUD) along, a live video feed from the aircraft, as well as be able to see through them and maintain line of sight with the dr...

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 ...

Kylin FPV Goggles – Fat Shark Killers?

Since yesterday’s post was about FPV goggles, I thought I would continue the trend and talk about a new pair of FPV goggles I tested yesterday. They are called the KDS Kylin Vision goggles and they run on the 5.8Ghz band, which is the same as Fat Sharks. They don’t have a built in DVR like the newer Fat Sharks, but they do have a bigger screen, an “auto seek” feature to fin...

HD FPV is Here!

If you fly FPV, you know the challenges of analog signal dropout. The video quality is grainy and there are all kinds of issues with interference. That is about to change! Connex has introduced the ProSight HD FPV system which, if the reviews are to be believed, will revolutionize FPV. The ProSight HD FPV system broadcasts a 60 frames per second in 720P resolution. And, unlike analog, where signal...

Meet the TANKY FPV Racing Quad

The team developing the TANKY FPV racing quadcopter is looking to raise $225,000 USD on Kickstarter to develop an amazing but affordable new FPV racing drone.  The TANKY promises to be very fast with powerful, brushless motors, very agile and features a motorized tilt camera that can adjust its angle based on your style of flight. Tanks has a blend of carbon fiber skeleton and a plastic “ski...

Canadian Company Offers Easy To Assemble DIY Racing Drone

The Raptor 190 FPV is a drone kit that you can invest in on Kickstarter. It takes inspiration from several top FPV racing drones and is currently being developed for people looking for an easy to assemble DIY drone. The kit can be assembled in less than 15 minutes and even includes all the tools you need get the job done! Find out more and how you can support this Kickstarter project here: http://...

Nissan Builds Custom Drone To Keep Up With Its GT-R Sports Car

Nissan recently designed and built the GT-R Drone – one of the fastest accelerating First Person View (FPV) racing drones ever produced. The GT-R Drone is designed to keep up with the 2017 Nissan GT-R while shooting video on the test track. The GT-R Drone is able to reach 100 kilometres per hour from a standstill in a mind blowing 1.3 seconds. Nissan felt that the newly redesigned GT-R racing car ...

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