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Eric Cheng

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The flying of drones at Burning Man was highly-regulated in 2014. I was told by Firefly, the main organizer of drones this year, that a big reason for the new regulations was that some idiot flew over the Temple last year during the moment of silence before it burned. This prompted hundreds of complaints from ...

Aerial footage of ~70,000 people watching The Burn at Burning Man 2014 at around 9:30pm on Saturday, August 30, 2014. Shot with DJI Phantom 2, GoPro 3+ Black, and DJI Lightbridge wireless HD transmission. Black Rock City, Nevada. A lot of my flights were live-streamed to the Burning Man webcast, which was very cool. DJI’s Lightbridge ...

Yesterday, I hung out with the lovely Coco Rocha (oh-so-coco) and her husband, James Conran at their place in New York. Coco successfully completed her first flight with a DJI Phantom 2 Vision, and even managed to catch it out of the air, which is how most experienced pilots “land” their Phantoms. If you catch ...

Last week, I went to Fakarava, a remote atoll in the Tuamotus in French Polynesia, as part of the Blancpain Diving Experience 2014. The south pass of Fakarava is the best place on the planet for seeing schools of gray reef sharks—there are upwards of 700 schooling sharks in the pass at any given time. ...

Best meeting ever. I drove about 100 miles to the east to some beautiful, gigantic, sunflower fields with photographers Barry Blanchard and Jeff Cable to do some flying with DJI Phantom 2 quadcopters and Barry’s Spreading Wings S1000. So beautiful. Photos shot with DJI Phantom 2 Vision+.

Micro FPV quadcopter: LaTrax Alias

I’ve been looking for a fun, small, quadcopter suitable for FPV and inexpensive / durable enough to hand the radio over to friends for test flights. My buddy Steve Doll over at Hovership recommended giving the LaTrax Alias a try (~$150). When the LaTrax Alias came out, it was accompanied with a video that showed just ...

I was charged 45% for bringing a quadcopter into the Bahamas

I went through customs in the Bahamas this afternoon with a bunch of photography and SCUBA diving equipment. Customs officials see underwater cameras all the time and don’t really care about them. But when I opened the case with my DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ in it, the official’s eyes lit up (they didn’t—he had a ...

I was part of a great interview on Monday on some cliffs overlooking a beautiful Northern-Californian beach. The waves were breaking in tight sets, and the aerial view straight down was spectacular. Shot in Adobe DNG raw using a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ quadcopter.

It turns out that you *can* stuff a DJI 2.4G Bluetooth Datalink (buy) and an iOSD mini (buy) into the shell of a Phantom 2. This flagship Phantom 2 is configured with Ground Station support, a Zenmuse H3-3D 3-axis GoPro gimbal, GoPro with Ragecams lens mod, and Boscam TS353 5.8G 400mW FPV transmitter. The radio has ...