Drone Pilots Navigate One of the First-Ever Drone Racetracks

By : Popular Science

Published On: 2015-06-10

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What makes first person view drone racing so appealing? “It’s like Star Wars,” Ryan Gury says, with a kidlike gleam in his eye, referring to the legendary scenes of pod racers zipping gleefully around obstacles.

Gury said those words a couple of months ago, when Motherboard first met him at a drone race in the Bronx. This time, we caught up with him in Ontario, where he was competing on one of the first FPV drone racetracks ever built.