An article in the New Yorker takes us inside the brand new world of drone racing, and the young pilots who are flying their vehicles 80 miles per hour through the air. Racing-inclined drone pilots fly quadcopters in “first-person view” (FPV), as they don goggles that connect to cameras inside the drone. The Drone Racing League is the institution trying to harness the excitement of drone racing for TV. The DRL has more than a dozen pilots, and the league has already scored roughly 50 million viewers through broadcasts across the globe. “That’s what we’re trying to do—translate sci-fi effects into real life, and create ridiculously high-level, high-performance flying robots to show the world,” said Nicholas Horbaczewski, the CEO of the DRL.
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