Aerial photography players may not hear about this word, racing drone as a time machine, but those aeromodelling players must be very familiar about it. The racing drone has wheelbase between 180 to 250, it can run very fast, there is a camera on the front of the drone. According to current news, this DJI Spark RC drone is similar to a racing drone of limited edition. It has unibody easy to carry, no need to DIY. You can enjoy racing experience deeply.
According to latest photos, DJI Spark complies with the wheelbase between 180 to 250, it has compact design, in addition, it adopts removable battery design, solving the issue of out of power. Its motor and blade will also provide enough power for high-speed flight. So it should be a racing drone.
Flight control is one of components of racing drones, it plays important role in flying experience, which has also decided which parts to be assembled. Now the popular flight controls of racing drones have CC3D, Sparky, APM Mini, etc. DJI released NAZA-M V2 before, but with a little expensive price, a little heavy weight, which is not suitable to become a racing drone.
However, DJI has specialized in RC drones with many year, they have ability to release racing drone. There are different levels in traditional DIY racing drone, so DJI has large chance to release this racing drone, DJI Spark.
Spark uses mechanical gimbal, which should be two axis, important for FPV experience. On one hand, DJI racing drone has large angle when flying, if there is no gimbal, we only need to adjust the camera facing to sky by manual, so it is not as flexible as mechanical gimbal.
On the other hands, DIY racing drone flying speed is so fast that FPV angle leads to strong dizziness. If it has a mechanical gimbal to stabilize the image, it will solve the issue and be more suitable for new users.
Someone may be confused that DJI Spark has visual positioning, it has obstacle avoidance on the front, GPS should also support, will it be finally the racing drone?
In my mind, it can be a racing drone probably. Because the common racing drone flight control APM Mini has already supported OSD, compass, data transmitting, optical flowing, LED light, etc. So those equipped with common specs of consumer-level rc drones can be also racing drone. But why not be common? Because racing drone has small size, limited battery life, so many users install rarely.
If DJI drone solves the battery life, using its own flight control and image photographing technology, designing many sensors into the small body, DJI Spark may be very likely to be a racing drone with ‘black’ technology, stay tuned.
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