QuadRocket

11/16/2016

The “QuadSparrow” flies at a size and weight that absolutely does not require registration, poses little or no safety risk, and therefore can be flown indoors easily. Although it flies at a mass of just 22 grams and fits in the palm of your hand, it is ideally suited for both roles: conventional hovering flight in small areas like living rooms and garages or pitching forward into missile mode flight in large open spaces such as gymnasiums and yards.

11/07/2016

Looking for a unique Christmas gift for the person who has everything? Get one of these little 130mph speed demons at www.quad-rocket.com!

08/30/2016

Drone racing in Kansas!

Freestyle Event

08/17/2016

From Popular Mechanics: "The idea behind the rocket quadcopter is pretty ingenious: combine a traditional hovering copter with a fixed-wing craft to give it the best of both worlds." Check out the article http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/a22181/quadcopter-shaped-like-a-rocket/

�The QuadRKT combines the best features of quadcopters and fixed-wing aircraft.��

08/16/2016

Show us some love and visit our Kickstarter page! Help us get the QuadRKT to market!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/384384916/quadrkt-the-future-of-drone-racing?ref=email

A revolutionary new drone with horizontal and vertical flight ability, missile mode, and quadrotors done right!

08/15/2016

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/8/3/12366546/quad-rocket-drone-quadcopter

The design of small UAVs usually falls into one of two categories: the cruciform quadcopter (with extra arms added as necessary) and the fixed-wing glider (such as early iterations of Google's...

08/15/2016

Popular Science article on QuadRKT!
http://www.popsci.com/missile-shaped-quadcopter-is-fast-novelty

Quads and ends

07/22/2016

Here's a nice primer on the QuadSparrow written by one of its co-inventors, Dr. Richard Bramlette
http://quadrkt.com/2016/07/19/getting-to-know-the-quadspw/

The “QuadSparrow” is a small-scale demonstrator intended to allow pilots to build familiarity with the concept of “Missile Mode Flight.” It operates on the same principles as the larger aircraft but at a size and weight that absolutely does not require registration, poses little or no safety risk, a...

04/09/2016

The incredible Taylor Johnston presents her paper on "The World's Fastest Quadcopter" at the AIAA Region V Student Paper Competition, 7 April 2016 in Ames, Iowa!

11/25/2015

This was one of the shorter flights we had yesterday. You can hear the motors revving up prior to launch. You can also catch them overspeeding as the rocket motor lofts the little thing. Of course, Bram has it the whole time and brings it down quite nicely as a free-flight RC quadcopter. We flew with one of the smallest Estes engines -- 1/2A3-2T. Next week we'll try a much much larger A10 (twice the impulse)... it's sure to be a 'blast'

11/24/2015

11/24/2015

The latest QuadRocket launch video (shot through a glass blast shield at 1000 frames/sec)!