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The Drone Racing League: from prime time to the auction floor
DRL built the aircraft, the television spectacle, and a game that could turn players into paid pilots. Its rise - and the equipment auction that followed - reveals what it takes to manufacture a sport.
How a Dorm-Room Drone Project Became the Company That Owns the Sky
Frank Wang built his first flight controller in a Hong Kong dorm. Two decades later DJI sells most of the drones on Earth - and Washington is trying to decide whether to let it keep selling them here.
Alan Zhang
Alan Zhang (Rongyu Zhang) is a San Francisco-based founder, aerospace engineer, and YouTube creator who built the first human-carrying eVTOL drone assembled by a high schooler — a 280kg-thrust electric aircraft completed in 327 days with 17 classmates in a Diamond Bar garage. Now at UC Berkeley's MET program (Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology), he is building Prototype 3 of his passenger drone and running a stealth startup, while his YouTube channel @alanzeekk documents his journey building interesting machines.