2018 Military International Drone Racing Tournament
2018 Military International Drone Racing Tournament
Coverage of the Inaugural MIDRT – Essentially a Drone Racing Tournament for the Armed forces, which included Army, Navy, Airforce and Defence Contractors from all over the world. We were invited as guests of the Australian Army.
If there is one video of BMSweb you choose to share on social media this is the one! I say this because this is the Armed Forces essentially giving the Hobby/Sport we love, their stamp of approval and basically telling the world how positive they think Drone Racing is.
The event was run by FPVR and featured Joe Scully as the race director/announcer 😜
I’ve got a ton of videos to catch up on, but I honestly think this is by far the most positive video for the hobby and the people involved in our community.
Lets hope for an even bigger Military Event in 2019! A massive congratulations goes out to Keirin and the Australian Army for doing such an amazing job. This was no small undertaking, I can’t imagine how much work must have gone into selling the idea of a military drone race, through to the Venue and then convincing CASA to allow them to run a drone race so close to a major International Airport.
In the Demo on this video, Thomas was running an Xbee MCK Hybrid with FlightOne FC and ESC.
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good on you matey and good on the military for do it
Top notch coverage and review. Looks like you really put on a show for them.
That @kuato fulla is a smoothe operator he would look good in a set of pit vipers.
Hahaha "the pilots are really fast" then BMST puts a *30%* lead on them
You guys are awesome!
Awesome edit! Great to capture this unique event! Great to see the GG supporting it too 🙂
I can see Thomas getting multiple recruiting offers to Top Gun academy already!
Some say that Thomas sweats NZT-48…
Wow I think I could finish this course in a decent time maybe! Some of the courses I’ve seen are so hard to follow! This one looks like a lot of fun. Where do I sign up?
Love what you guys are doing there especially for the wounded warriors! I hope America follows!👍🏽🤙🏽😃
Goddamn that herpe is fuckin MASSIVE….. jesus christ. I think I’d stay at home with that fuckin bad larry.
M8. that was a great event 🙂
wow that sounds pretty awsome? would be nice to get paid to fly these things and test new stuff within the military get all the cool updated gear and get paid for it. I know they fly big bloody killing machine drones. but would be cool to play with these things all day long for their job? would be kinda cool to fly all day long and build and test new stuff and get paid for it.
It’s a pleasure to watch
Awesome! Stoked to see this!
Can’t believe I missed out on this!
Great video format! And epic editing!
That is so cool how FpV changes peoples lives and how fast that into it
Nice
Everytime I fly it’s a race against myself not to crash
Interesting
Did Thomas not race in the tournament?
Nice to see our British lads representing!
For any non-Australian people who might be wondering what that background sound is @ 13:37 it’s a bird called a Kookaburra.
Very cool 👏👏 keep up the great vids
you are Faster than fast Buddy!!!
Epic video and epic tournament!
Has Thomas tried 6S? What are his thoughts on 6S?
Great video .
Geez… you mean they didn’t put guns on them??? 🙂
Awesome content! Great to see our hobby getting some love from the military.
And colombia?
That looks Awesome.. must’ve been alot of fun.
Awesome video mate
This was a great success, love the coverage guys! Glad I got to pop in and say hi and show my folks what it’s like on the ground.
this is awesome
Great to see the Military giving support will help with the hobby and some politicians opion on something they have no idea about maybe they will see racers are just enjoying them self’s
They didn’t enlist you as the soon needed UAV pilot? Great seeing national army’s into FPV.
Very good move to put the aussie military behind the hobby on your side of the world!
Very smart move! That’s why i love this channel, quality and well thought contents always <3
Maybe, couple of RC community all around the world could think about doing the same in their own country 🙂
Thanks a milion for sharing and keep it up the great job 🙂
Thomas, you smoked that track. Your flying never fails to amaze!
Good
3:54 the music is even better at 1.5X speed
Invite Colombia, here we also fly thanks
Great video !
Wow, this hobby is getting serious. Cool stuff Thomas 👍✌
Fantastic flying, dude! Really great event!!! 😃
I keep thinking about what kind of toys they play with when they’re not flying quadcopters… 🤔
God bless the army great video guys
Dang thier gonna weponize these things and they gonna need pilots! Sign Me up!