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Wow, I hope this is a good sign of things to come! Let's just hope the press forward and do the right thing of finishing the regulations instead of backtracking and trying to put a stop to this while pausing on the already delayed work towards proper regulations...

Hey Gang, I've got a set of four 4014-11 heavy lift motors. These are brand new, still in a sealed box. I'm open to either selling them, or would trade for the right item(s). Message me here if you are interested. -Terry

My first APM is on the way and Im plotting out my next moves. I'm thinking of putting it on my tiny little 250 sized h-quad and using it for autonomous flight (or at least trying). Has anyone had much luck with APM & Droidplanner?

Hey Gang, The last few months I have had my eye on everything except updates for the Wookong. To avoid the problems I've seen many have with several of the most recent firmware updates, I'm still running 5.16 with no problems. Has anyone had good luck with anything new lately? I know that...

Background Earlier this year I noticed something interesting. XAircraft had a new US distributor and was releasing new products. If you were just bitten by the multirotor bug during the last year or so, the name XAircraft might be a new one to you, but they have been around for a number of...

Hey Gang, Some of you know about it, but I wanted to post about a project we have been working on for the better part of 2013. We took a long hard look at our body of photography work, and organized it into our first book. We picked the subject of Baltimore for the first one, so we had to leave...

Hey gang, I wanted to ask you lot about existing UAV regulations outside of the US. I know that the UK has a full system in place, as do a few other countries, but I don't know many of the details about how they work. I'm interested in a high level overview of what steps you have to take to...

This is interesting. The man that many have claimed is going to bring an end to our hobby may in fact be the one that finally makes it legal to do commercially. http://www.law360.com/articles/477728/drone-pilots-immune-from-faa-fines-judge-told Law360, New York (October 03, 2013, 2:05 PM...

Did anyone else notice the Team Blacksheep footage on the Discovery Channel documentary "raising Concordia" today? As soon as I turned it on, I noticed obvious gopro Quad footage flying over the shipwreck.

This has some real potential, even if it's not ready for our uses right now. Basically, it's a Sony rx100 with no display, and it weighs in at only 176 grams. Now if only someone can figure out how to get a feed from it and trigger it, we might be in business...

Hey gang, I've been toying around with the idea of getting a small office fridge to store my lipos in. It seems I get less and less time in the air lately, so I was thinking that might be a better way to think about long term lipo storage. Since it would be a dedicated fridge, I could set...

Yes, this is EXACTLY why "photographers" should not try to simply buy a phantom and add aerial photography to their resume. Actions like this are dangerous and will bring the heat down on those of us who do fly responsibly.

Hey gang. Some of you saw my post a couple months back about maker camp. We are in the build week finally and I wanted to share some photos of the kids in the midst of their first build. We are making a couple of 200 sized modified H quads that we printed on a makerbot. The kids are loving it...

Hey Gang, I designed a cool little cover for my AlexMos board and it crossed my mind that others might be interested in protecting theirs as well. I have a laser cutter and can run a batch of these off if others are interested. It looks pretty cool in person since it's cut out of acrylic and...

Hey gang, I was just curious how you are setting up your Sony NEX (5, 6 or 7) for taking stills from your multi rotor. Just this year I started using it, but I've spent so much time focusing on new gimbals and other equipment, that I haven't dived in very deep to the settings of the camera...

I thought I would share a little something we put together for the summer. My wife and I were invited to work with Maker Camp in Baltimore this year. We designed a 2 week workshop for high school kids to learn the fundamentals of multi rotor flight, design and piloting. There will be flight...

I've been trying to get a little more active on Twitter lately. We are making an honest attempt to post regularly including photos and video that we shoot. I follow a lot of different UAV folks on there, but I was thinking that I don't recognize many from here. We should start a thread with...

Last night the wife and I watched a new show on Animal Planet called "Treehouse Masters." It's pretty cool, but it struck me as odd how much of the show is shot via multi rotor. It's quite a bit. How is it that we are not allowed to do this commercially, yet you can't turn on the TV these days...

Anyone have a recommendation for cutting 1mm walled carbon fiber booms? In the past, I've always used a small hand saw and a miter box, but that was for much smaller booms. These are 25mm outside.

I might have told some of you about this already, but it just became a reality last night. National Geographic posted their June/July issue of Traveler magazine that included a story called 48 Hours in Baltimore. Our photo of the Patterson Park Pagoda was the featured photo for the article. You...