Hands-on videos, flight tests, and tutorials from the DroneXL crew and contributors.
This desk collects video-driven coverage: articles where footage is the evidence, not an illustration bolted onto text written first.
Some of it documents things a photo cannot. Someone used an Antigravity A1 to preserve a 1,000-year-old Bulgarian fortress in 3D with Gaussian splatting, a technique that only makes sense shown in motion. The FPV building community produces genuine engineering stories too: a 1S lithium-ion FPV build flew 34 minutes and 3 miles on a single cell, a claim that only holds up because the flight itself was filmed.
Our partner creators anchor a lot of this coverage. Jake Sloan’s accessories rundown covers what he actually uses rather than what a manufacturer sent, and Shawn Air Photography’s testing grounds our biggest comparison pages in real side-by-side footage rather than spec-sheet claims.
For dedicated product testing, see the review archive. This hub is broader: any story where video is the proof, not just the illustration. Every video-driven story lands in the feed below.
Last updated August 24, 2026 — the feed below updates with every new story.
For Project Eternal, Mikhail Svilanov flew the Antigravity A1 360 drone over Ovech Fortress in Bulgaria and turned a single ten-minute flight into an explorable 3D Gaussian Splatting model with Splatica.
A YouTube builder's custom 3-inch quad pairs one 21700 cell with a DJI O4 Air Unit for 34-minute flights and a 5 km lake crossing, plus the DJI part US builders can't get.
DJI's new Campus Creators program pays students to post about DJI gear, eight months into an FCC block on every new DJI product in the US and days before a second ban deadline.
Jake Sloan shares the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 and 4P accessories he actually uses — protective covers, Freewell ND filters, mics, batteries, LUTs, and car rig gear.
Ray from DC Rainmaker spent six weeks testing the Insta360 X6 underwater, on the water, and on the ground — new 1/1.1-inch sensors, 8K50, 10-bit, InstaFrame 2.0, and the features that don't quite deliver.
Idaho Quadcopter says tariffs and FCC rules are pushing hobbyists out. The FCC's own notice answers his biggest fear about the drones he already owns.
Jake Sloan tests the Insta360 X6 on a car rig, in a helicopter cockpit, and deep inside an Alaska glacier ice cave — dynamic range, 10-bit low-light color, and 120MP photos.
In this week's US drone news update, I cover the DARPA Lift Challenge results, a drone-delivered defibrillator that saved a man's life in Sweden, and the FCC proposal that could pull already-approved DJI drones like the Mini 5 Pro and Air 3S off the shelves.
Mostly our own partner creators, including Jake Sloan and Shawn Air Photography, alongside footage from builders and hobbyists across the FPV community when the footage itself is the story, like a scratch-built aircraft or a rare piece of drone-captured documentation.
Some stories are only convincing on video: a preserved historical site captured in 3D, a homemade FPV build actually flying for its claimed duration, or a hands-on accessories rundown where seeing the gear used matters more than a product photo.
Often something else. A dedicated review lives in our review archive; this hub is broader, covering any story where video footage is the evidence, whether that's a build log, a preservation project, or a creator's accessories setup.
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