Over the weekend, Model Aeronautical Association Australia (MAAA) in association with The Royal Adelaide Show (RA&HS) held the FPV World Cup in Adelaide.

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A few days ago we shared the first article in a short series about the challenges and considerations when building larger multi-rotors for taking video or photos.

Silicon Valley, located in the Southern San Franciso Bay Area, is renowned as the tech capital of the world.

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If you look for information about what to consider and the parts to look at if you are considering building a larger quad, hex or octocopter to carry a camera and gimbal then it can be tricky.

Intel has been at the forefront of creating display drones, which are known as a ‘shooting star drones’ for their ability to light up a night sky, not unlike shooting stars.

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The Tello drone is listed for sale on the DJI website for you’d be forgiven for thinking that it is, in fact, a DJI product.

People have been flying model aircraft for almost as long as the first successful flight of the Wright Brothers. 

As technology became available, a smart chap strapped a noisy little internal combustion engine to the model and enjoyed and the trend caught on. Fast forward a few decades and land has become more scarce as the urban sprawl continued into rural areas.It’s one thing to come down and fly for a few hours and head home but those new neighbors live there and the novelty of model airplanes will wear off. This is the point where you start having trouble with neighbors, councils, and courts.

In December 2017, Ballarat City Council removed the right for drone operators to fly their aircraft over public spaces in the municipal land.

Everyone loves a good hobby crash fail story. Last week there were reports out of Washington DC that a security guard robot fell into a water fountain and truthfully, we have only just stopped laughing about it.

Drone racing is an emerging sport that people are continually invested and interested in.