XP2 Quadcopter Drone Next time you’re enjoying skiing through the Cascades or want an aerial view of your coast vacation, ask for the modern gift that makes photography and filmmaking from a bird’s eye view possible. The XProHeli XP2 quadcopter drone comes ready to fly and is equipped to carry lightweight recording devices like a […]
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Up Close and On the Edge
The Bivy takes sports and filmmaking to new heights
For most people, watching the short, outdoor adventure films produced by The Bivy is the closest they will ever come to flying through the air on a rope swing dangling from a paraglide like a floating trapeze. And, given the incredible detail and perspective of the Bend-based crew’s videos, that may be close enough. Co-founders […]
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Is “Drone” a Dirty Word?
A new world takes (unmanned) flight
In 1959, a year before Bono was born, U-2 was the name for a classified, unmanned plane that flew past the Iron Curtain and across the restricted airspace in the Soviet Union. Concerned about sending pilots into hostile air space, the US Air Force launched a program—code name “Red Wagon”—to send “unmanned aerial vehicle”—or, what […]
