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You'll get longer flight times if your craft is balanced. DJI flight controller will try to compensate for uneven weight. You should be able to tell the difference in how your craft behaves after movement. A balanced craft will have smoother flight transitions.

I think there's no real feasible way to get around hardware exploitation. 3D printing is making it easier to clone simple objects. Never mind that what you print is the intellectual property of someone that researched, designed, and poured their heart and soul into a project. On the...

I imagine that they had spotters. The phantom is no comparison to the heavy Octo that was dumped over the river. I think that it's light enough not to cause concern if it were flown over a crowd. I can see news media using a multicopter like this to obtain video for news casts/events. You...

That's a good question. My DJI WKM miraculously survived a bad crash. I inspected the cables, test flew it on a small quad before putting it on my new Y6. I wonder about the longevity of the product. Lipos have a life span. The battery tech gets better, but after so many charges (also...

Everyone already has a waypoint feature. Just power up your Naza or WKM in the area that you want it to fly to and carry it to a place where you want to launch it. Use the RTH switch and watch your craft fly to its waypoint and land. No hacking necessary. :)

Flying Style (easy, moderate, aggressive). Easy Safe Flying time. 9 mins Max Flying time. 10.5 mins Config (hex, octor, quad, y, x8, y6 etc). Y6 Total Weight. 6.5 lbs wih Sony Action Camera # of Motors. 6 Motor type. 2814/11s Props. Graupner 11x5 ESC's AMPs. DJI 30 amp # batteries. 2 in parallel...

I think there is a real market for light weight aerial camera systems. You'll definitely see professional cameras designed for multi-rotors when ever the aviation authorities come out with a plan for commercial UAS.

It was dumped into the river. Anyone would do the same thing to avoid injury of bystanders. Flying something that big near a crowd takes some ballz and trust in your equipment. I would rather take a job filming a building or a nature shot where only a deer would hear the motor rotor crash...

Here are a few vids DJI prop break on Hexa (long video crashes in ocean): http://youtu.be/Yr_aGFdRys4 Hexa lost prop in flight (best recovery video): http://youtu.be/qrMuROJIJLY another prop failure video (the owner's opening comment had me laughing): http://youtu.be/VVv_xRudghU DJI Y6...

I don't like their folding prop design. What keeps the props from folding on to itself? I had that happen on a quad in flight years ago. I am interested in their new aluminum cased WKM.