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We're back in Las Vegas for NAB 2015, courtesy of our official travel sponsor: GoProfessional Cases. Last year, there were plenty of interesting multirotor systems to see, but this year, they have taken over the show. They are everywhere, and they even have their own space set aside on the...

One of the highlights of our visit to Southern California earlier this year was having the opportunity to visit our good friends and sponsors, Rick and Beth, at GoProfessional Cases (http://goprofessionalcases.com/). I also thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to prowl around on their factory...

For the record, I can't actually remember when I first became aware of the Ominus, but I do remember wanting one pretty badly. In the run-up to the holiday season last year, I couldn't raise the $80 to go pick one up at Tammie's – our local hobby shop – and by the time I had the cash in hand...

As you can see, our whirlwind adventure at the New York City Drone Film Festival (http://www.nycdronefilmfestival.com/) is at its end, and we're back at home in Portland, Oregon. Courtesy two external, 32,000 mAH batteries, I was able to keep my laptop alive for the entire duration of our...

This was a mammoth undertaking. Unlike most of our videos, which are produced entirely by Techinstein and myself or – if we're very lucky – ourselves with one other person, this project and this series of videos comes to you thanks to the efforts of many, many people. Everyone who you see on...

What can we say but, “Wow!” As you heard Cliff mention in the video, we first found out about the Vortex from Atlanta Hobby when we met up with him at FlySafe in Las Vegas last year. He said – on video, no less – that he'd make one for us in yellow and black, the high-visibility color scheme...

Unless you've been living under a crashed Gaui 330x for the past few years, you know that the DJI Inspire One is the hot drone right now, with its integrated, interchangeable, three-axis gimbal-mounted 4K camera, transformer-like limb-lift maneuver, precision position hold and, oh, I don't know...

For the record, I thought this was pretty cool, but Techinstein geeked out over it the way I did over the Smith & Williamson RC weather balloon. So, I stepped aside and let him do the interview – and I was really glad that I did, because he asked better questions than I would have. This isn't a...

Those of you with long memories may recall that we first ran into multirotors from Yuneec at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas last year. We were pretty much bowled over by the aircraft themselves, but especially the gorgeous transmitter that was to ship with them...

We actually met Daniel Sandoval several weeks prior to AMA Expo at the UAVSA Drone Expo in Los Angeles. We had a few minutes to chat and he showed us his aircraft, but we didn't actually have time to do an interview with him. So, I was glad to see that he turned out for AMA Expo, giving us the...

By the end of AMA Expo, we were fast friends with Darryl and his crew from Action Drone USA. Our gracious sponsors, Rick and Beth from GoProfessional Cases, invited us to dinner along with them and some other friends and supporters. That meal lasted three-and-a-half hours and, by the end of it...

To lay bare my biases, I'm a fan of Horizon Hobby. Basically the first piece of RC equipment I ever purchased came from Horizon Hobby – a Spektrum DX8 – which I picked out because I thought it looked cool and “eight” was a nice, round number (that didn't cost as much as “ten.”) You should have...

The last video we bring to you here from CES was also the last video we shot at CES – visiting Parrot's booth one floor up from DJI, Hubsan and other prominent drone vendors. We expected to find and put together a quick video about the Bebop: the company's follow-up to the AR Drone. As I'm sure...

As I mentioned previously, I feel that CES could have done a better job of bringing together all of the multirotor manufacturers in a single, cohesive space – and TTRobotix and their Ghost Plus quadcopter were definitely victims of that failure. Our producer just happened to stumble across...

One of the great things about actually traveling to shows like CES – which makes me especially grateful to our travel sponsors: GoProfessional Cases and the Academy of Model Aeronautics – is the opportunity to see things with your own eyes. One such example is the...

We had never heard of Ehang until their nearly $800,000 crowdfunding campaign to launch its Ghost quadcopter was approaching its climax. A public relations firm hired by the company reached out to us and asked us if we'd be willing to do some coverage on the project. Always keen to keep up with...

I have to admit, seeing the Hobbico Ora – originally manufactured as the Hubsan X4 Pro – pretty much immediately and permanently altered my perception of Hubsan. Up until now, I've thought of Hubsan as a low-end manufacturer of inexpensive quads, one step above what you'd find at a kiosk in your...

To be honest, CES was a bit of a letdown as far as we were concerned, at least when it came to drones. Going in, I had believed that there was going to be an entire section of the trade show devoted to drones that gathered together all of the different companies with new entries in the field. It...

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