To create a successful global sporting event, the Drone Racing League (DRL) created radio technology and designed drones that could travel long distances, survive tough courses, and operate robustly without fail. The crew would travel from Saudi Arabia to Atlanta to London with a robotic production system, intricate timing routines, and super-fast drones that worked no matter where they were deployed.
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It is therefore no surprise that the League received some attention from the Ministry of Defence.
Ryan Gury, one of the co-founders of the Drone Racing League, told Lifewire that he left the Racing League to found PDW (formerly known as Performance Drone Works, but now only by that acronym) in 2018.
However, military applications differ greatly from consumer considerations.
