3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (542+ words) A British hobbyist has applied multicopter drone thinking to radically simplify the steering and powertrain of his high-performance radio-control car " and absolutely demolished the world top speed record in the process. The modern world offers an endless selection of rabbit…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (348+ words) Luke and Mike Bell, a father-son duo from South Africa, have reclaimed the Guinness World Record for the fastest quadcopter drone. Their 3 D-printed Peregreen V4 drone clocked a top speed of 657. 59 km/h (408 mph). 3 D printing enabled the father-son duo to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (394+ words) Luke Bell and his father Mike have done it again. Their new solar-powered drone " running on sunlight and almost nothing else " just claimed an unofficial endurance record for electric multirotors, flying for 5 hours, 2 minutes, and 21 seconds before Luke simply got…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (454+ words) This is actually a story in two parts. First, an update on the Peregrine project that birthed the Guinness World Record for the "Fastest ground speed by a battery-powered remote-controlled (RC) quadcopter" at 480 km/h or just under 300 mph. Earlier…...

8+ mon, 5+ day ago  (483+ words) Over the past wee while, immersive actioncam company Insta360 has been incubating a new camera-drone startup called Antigravity. Now the first flyer has been unveiled, a folding aerial adventurer capable of grabbing immersive 8 K 360-degree footage. "We didn't want to just…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (352+ words) We've seen lots of designs for vertical take-off and landing vehicles over the years, but none are quite as striking as the wings on Hop Flyt's Cyclone. The curved wings have their root in a design first introduced in the…...

7+ mon, 2+ day ago  (432+ words) High-end consumer drone producer DJI has announced the release of its Mini 5 Pro. Not only does it claim to be the world's first palm-sized drone with a one-inch image sensor, but it's got a few other hard-to-resist tricks up its…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago  (269+ words) Like an overachieving fledgling falcon, on its inaugural flight an Airbus "Bird of Prey" interceptor drone took out a medium-sized suicide drone using a Fraknkenberg Mark I mini-missile during a demonstration on March 30, 2026 in northern Germany. Based on a modified…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (454+ words) Regional Electric Ground Effect Nautical Transport (REGENT) has completed the maiden flight of Squire, an autonomous variant of the company's Wing-in-Ground Effect Seaglider aircraft that's being pitched to the US military for logistical duty. If you've been following the news…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (262+ words) In only a couple of decades drones have become a major player in military circles, as evidenced by the headlines they've made in recent conflicts. As a result, the inevitable arms race is now underway to find the means to…...