ArsTechnica cover our Drone Racing!
David Stock was tagging along at several of our last meetings snapping photos of flyers and racers! His work has hit the pages of ArsTechnica!!
"I first heard about FPV racing via Airgonay, a French group of FPV pilots who made the, perhaps obvious, comparison between their sport and the pod racing seen in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I remember thinking at the time, as I watched the video, that this was going to be huge.
"Fast forward a year and I’m taking in events at the world-famous polo course at Cowdray Park Estate—turns out that Lord Cowdray's son, Monty, is a pretty good FPV pilot—Wealden House in East Grinstead, and an impressive course on a farm outside Brighton nicknamed “Hidden Valley.
"Yet these are far from mainstream events. There is a unique vibe to each location, and a homegrown, underground feel where pilots pitch in where they can; one might organise transportation, another a generator, someone will volunteer to marshal or referee, and yet another will bring a barbecue for all. Palpable excitement grows as courses get designed and built, scorecards get ticked, heats drawn, and prizes, if any, announced. Then, at last, it's race time, and the air is filled with the whine of motors and whirl of rotors as the practice runs begin."....
Many of our crew have mug shots in the article - do check it out!!
