Thread:Powerup777/@comment-31600610-20190904030544

You expressed an interest in getting started in RC photography. I'm assuming you'll want to start off with a "drone". (For most in the RC aeronautical community, we despise that word. If it has 4 props, it's called a quadcopter. If there's 6, hexacopter, or 8, yeah, you get it... If there's only one prop, it's a unicopter. LOL! I remember when a bunch of us in the late 90's were working out the bugs to build the first quadcopter. The modern day radio controlled quadcoptor was born within the radio control helicopter community, but there's a lot of differing opinions on the exact birth and refinement of the version you see now. The very first one that I can recall was made out of 4 Century Hawk .30 helicopters. These were, or course, nitro-methane powered internal combustion motors. At that time, electrical motors and batteries were prohibitively expensive and extremely difficult to acquire. Also, on board gyroscopes had to be internally modified to work in conjuction with the other four gyros. (A total of five, one on each prop and one in the center.) Also, the the transmitters available at the time did not possess the programming cross-compatibity to execute the coordinated commands required for flight. There was a lot of community involvement in creating and programming a custom transmitter and receiver as well. It really was fascinating to watch this fascinating device develop into a reality from a concept.

Anyway, if you really want to get into it, be sure to check out some important places:

https://www.modelaircraft.org/  The AMA or Academy of Model Aeronautics.

https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/index.php

http://www.rcuniverse.com

These are great starting points if you haven't tinkered around with R.C. aircraft before, or infrequently.

Hope this might help! 