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Skip dinner and a movie. Your next date night could be in a dark room where you and your date don a pair of goggles and race each other via drones whizzing through a “Tron”-like track at 80 mph. In the wake of news that drone racing will air on ESPN, drone startup Aerial Sports League is making...

Decked out in high-tech goggles, pilot Steve Zoumas dives low and sees the final gate zooming toward him: a 20-foot-tall metal-framed box ringed with neon. Boom! His sight goes black. The crowd lets out a collective "Whoa!" as pieces of his aircraft, which has just smashed into a concrete...

The future of high speed drone drone racing?

The International Drone Racing Association said on Wednesday that it had signed a multi-year deal with ESPN to bring the new sport of drone racing to the sports network. "We look forward to providing drone racing fans a larger platform to access this exciting world," Matthew Volk, director of...

I started up my X-Bird250 with 3s 1800ma batt and contourHD 1080 camera, no FPV cam or trans. Took Spike for a trip through a tree, then proceeded towards the river, lost my bearings, and splash. Completely pilot error, my bad. I pulled it out of the water in about 15 seconds or so, unplugged...

On a recent Sunday, in front of a small crowd of spectators in an abandoned indoor shopping mall in South Central Los Angeles, four young men donned goggles and prepared to race their drones. Seated in front of a promotional banner for the incipient Drone Racing League, the men put their thumbs...

BOISE, Idaho — It was just another morning in the park for Chris and Cadence Haskins. Chris arranged his 11-year-old daughter’s flying station — lawnchair, video goggles, controller and antenna. Cadence began piloting a drone across Boise’s Sycamore Park and through a row of trees like a slalom...

New worldwide phenomenon is a natural fit for kids who grow up playing video games. BOISE, Idaho — It was just another morning in the park for Chris and Cadence Haskins. Chris arranged his 11-year-old daughter’s flying station — lawnchair, video goggles, controller and antenna. Cadence began...

"Luke Bannister, a 15-year-old drone racing pilot from the UK, won the inaugural World Drone Prix in Dubai on Sunday. The race, held in the United Arab Emirates, had a $1 million total prize purse, and Bannister took home first place, earning himself $250,000 of that prize money." Full story...

The United Arab Emirates already appeals to fans of horse racing. Now, the rich Gulf state wants to be known for a different type of spectator sport: drone racing. Beginning Friday, 32 pilots will race in the inaugural World Drone Prix, whipping their remote-controlled aerial vehicles around a...

NEW YORK, March 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Drone Racing League (DRL) released their first full race of the 2016 season, "Level 1: Miami Lights," and announced Steve "Zoomas" Zoumas was the winner of the league's first race. On the most complex racecourse ever built outside a video game...