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Eric Cheng

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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 ...

Early-morning drone flights at Shelter Cove, Pacifica, with flying buddies Pablo Lema, David Merrill, Jerome Miller, Jason Short, and Carlos Fernandez Puertolas, June 8, 2014. [still pictures are here] All aerial footage taken with DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ quadcopter w/integrated, stabilized camera. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

Aerial shot of downtown Oakland. I happened to be on the roof of the Oakland convention center the other day and sent a Phantom 2 Vision+ straight up into the air for this shot.

Early-morning drone flights at Shelter Cove, with flying buddies Pablo Lema, David Merrill, Jerome Miller, Jason Short, and Carlos Fernandez Puertolas,  June 8, 2014. We climbed across the cliff to get to Shelter Cove and were told later by Brian Lam that we could have just driven in (the street isn’t washed out, apparently!). Oh ...

Aerial footage of the U.S. Navy DC-3 plane wreck on the black-sand beach at Sólheimasandur in Iceland. The plane crashed in 1973, and is accessible by driving off-road for a few miles. It is an incredible thing to see—I highly recommend going to see it if you are headed to Iceland. Footage taken with DJI ...

Live aerial broadcast using DJI Phantom 2 Vision+

I met up with a bunch of drone-flying buddies today to do another live broadcast test using a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ quadcopter. It was a great success! What is notable about this demo is that I’m using the latest beta of the DJI Vision iPhone app, which includes Ground Station. Ground Station gives you the ...

After the “Drones and Conservation” workshop I gave yesterday at River Rally 2014, Skip Barker of Wing Systems took me out on the Allegheny River aboard his Torqeedo-powered electric skiff. I sent a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ quadcopter up into the air and shot some video. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

I was in Pittsburgh yesterday to give a talk about Drones and Conservation at River Rally 2014, a conservation conference co-hosted by River Network and Waterkeeper Alliance. After my talk, Skip Barker of Wing Systems took me out on the Allegheny River aboard his Torqeedo-powered electric skiff, which was very cool. I sent a DJI Phantom ...

On assignment in the Bahamas with a Phantom 2 Vision+

I’m back from an awesome 8 days scuba diving and flying the Bahamas for Bahamas Underwater Photo Week, a collaboration between Alert Diver Magazine, Bahamas Diving Association, and Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. In total, there were 4 photographers, 2 social media journalists, and a filmmaker covering the various parts of the Bahamas. I was responsible ...