Recent content by Joe Marrone

I also should mention that the DJI E310 ESCs I'm using come with a light that goes on each boom and flashes slowly at low power but goes solid at full power. And they are not synchronized so they appear to blink at random. On the bench I find them very distracting, so my thought is to eliminate...

To answer Florida Drone Supply Team, what I have in mind is a lighting system that gives me orientation. My eyesight is not very good, os I need something that helps with whether it's going away or towards me, and which is front and back. A hex looks like a circle .. not an easy shape to fly...

I am ready to install some lighting on a new DJI F550 hex. I could use some input as to the types of light systems people are using. I went to the Banggood site and saw many LED packages for this. My system is using a 4S battery (nominal 14.8 volts), but most of the lighting systems I am...

Today on the news I saw a story about a drone dropping flotation devices to swimmers in trouble. It looked like they were in the ocean out from the beach. Did anyone else see this story? I am wondering about this application of drones, and if anyone has developed a mechanism to drop items...

Hi again: I realize that my choice of avatar might be a little off topic, or even a little insulting, to drone pilots. Let me state here my, ahem, apology. Most of my flying buddies know I'm a avid builder of WWI Fokker warbirds. I've built and flown (and crashed) a Fokker D8, Fokker D7, and...

Hi folks. I'm Joe Marrone, a long-time member of the RC community, but relatively new to drones. I have been flying giant scale fixed wing airplanes for 27 years, and out of curiosity, bought my first drone, the Blade 350 QX when it first came out, because it seemed like such a cool thing...

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