Gossip Destiny: Editor's Pick: The Rise of Drone Racing, Part 1

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Editor's Pick: The Rise of Drone Racing, Part 1

Quinten Plummer May 24, 2016 5:00 AM PT
	Tearing through open spaces and timing each turn to burst out of them, a seeming continuum of drones weaves through a set of obstacles lap after lap, until the stutter of a pilot's joystick breaks the cadence of this competitive concert and destroys the illusion. It's the drama -- anticipating and reacting to those human moments -- that has propelled drone racing to the spotlight. [More...]

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