Product Reviews

In this day and age, having the best photos and videos is a must on many social media feeds from personal to professional and more and more people are looking to capture those memorable moments now with the use of drones. However, the …

Building off of the success of the wildly popular Typhoon Q500 and Q500+, the designers went back to the drawing board to not only keep up with the industry standards, but to surpass them. The new Typhoon 4K uses many of the same features as the …

In the world of FPV (First Person View) flying, image quality is everything. There is nothing worse than straining your eyes to make out objects and landscapes in your field of view. Poor quality video goggles can mean the difference between a fun flight and getting hung up in the trees. There are a lot of good quality goggles on the market, but I recently had the opportunity to get some FPV flying in with the Zeiss Cinemizer OLED video glasses and I was really blown away by how much of a different experience it was compared to other goggles...

In my personal experience, it seems as though there are two types of hobbyists that are interested in multirotor machines – the sport flyers who like the small and micro quads and fly for fun, and the pilots who want to attach a camera on their machine to get aerial photos and video. When the Blade 350 QX was recently released to the market, they actually combined both desires into one machine along with the addition of some pretty awesome technological features.

Upon initial inspection of the Proto X when it arrived at my house, I was amazed at just how small it actually was. I read some pre-release specs and reviews of it and was anxious to see how well it would perform given its small size. The quality and construction of this diminutive quad is very good considering its price. The transmitter on the other hand, left a little to be desired since it was so small, but I reserved my final judgment until I had completed a flight or two.

Graupner radio systems are very popular throughout Europe as tray-style radio systems are more of a norm. I recently had the opportunity to use a Graupner MC-20 HoTT radio system with my multirotor and I was very impressed. There is …

Within the last year or so, the idea of mounting a camera stabilization system to an RC aircraft or surface vehicles has become commonplace. The advancements made to the GoPro and many other action cams on the market allow for …

Hex and quadcopters are nothing new to HobbyKing as they already distribute and manufacture a vast number of frame kits, but to this point, none of them had been expressly designed with economy and ease of construction in mind. Enter …

By Matt Maziarz The vast number of POV action camera models in the hands of consumers today readily creates the need for accessories such as gimbals for image stabilization. Let’s face it; no one is using a GoPro Hero3 or …

By Erick Royer A MULTIROTOR TRACKING SYSTEM? No they did not actually name the product a “Multirotor” tracking system, but let me tell you how great this product is from Fido to Phantom…and why I wished I found it sooner. …

 DJI’s one-stop-solution to join the multi-rotor revolution! By Mark A Johnson PHOTOS BY CHRIS MULCAHY  Although the multi-rotor revolution is barely five years old, the popularity of quadcopters, hexacopters and octocopters has quickly become the hottest niche in the …

Taking micro-quads to the next level Last year RC Logger introduced their hugely popular micro quad, The RC Eye One. This little quad offered tons of performance and value and with the addition of RC Logger’s FPV camera system you …