The race to build the world’s quickest drone has shifted from labs and defense contractors to garages and hobby benches, and the latest DIY machine has just pushed that contest into a new, almost ...

Explore the design and performance of a massive 3D printed quadcopter with variable pitch propellers. A fascinating look at ...

The takeaway: YouTube creator and DIY engineer Hoarder Sam has pushed the boundaries of microdrone engineering by unveiling what may be the smallest first-person-view (FPV) quadcopter ever flown.

Quadcopters tend to have very poor efficency because of their high disk loading. High disk loading– that is, how much weight ...

The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars on just the power generated from solar panels attached to the machine remains a tempting one, but always seems to require some serious ...