Best drones for sale – professional and consumer grade.Pat 2
Coming very soon: Yuneec Tornado H920 Plus
As seen in our Best professional drones and Drone sizing comparison lists
Yuneec produces relatively large drones, with the Recently announced Tornado H920 Plus being one of the largest. This isn’t just for posterity, they’ve made it as large as they felt it needed to be to take your expensive camera into the sky for smooth, secure and stable video capture.
The H920 Plus is a recent update to the H920, a solid offering in itself, but the new rig offers a new camera option and better flight controls. It is so new, unfortunately, that it is not yet up for sale. For now, check out the original Yuneec Tornado H920 for $3500 on Amazon today.
Yuneec produces relatively large drones, with the Recently announced Tornado H920 Plus being one of the largest. This isn’t just for posterity, they’ve made it as large as they felt it needed to be to take your expensive camera into the sky for smooth, secure and stable video capture.
The H920 Plus is a recent update to the H920, a solid offering in itself, but the new rig offers a new camera option and better flight controls. It is so new, unfortunately, that it is not yet up for sale. For now, check out the original Yuneec Tornado H920 for $3500 on Amazon today.
Parrot Bebop 2
As seen in our Parrot drones guide and Best drones under $500 list
This is the update to the familiar Parrot Bebop 1, a light-weight drone from Parrot in France. Like the Parrot Bebop 1 before it, the Bebop 2 is a simpler drone design, packing everything but the arms and propellers into a cylinder, not unlike an airplane. The nose of the craft is a 14MP camera with fisheye lens for 1080p video capture. Fly by Android, iOS or Windows app, or grab the optional WiFi extending remote to get up to 2 km range. GPS auto-home mode will get your drone back to you, as long as it’s still airborne.
We’ve had the chance to review this lightweight drone, check out what John Velasco had to say about theParrot Bebop 2.You can get the Parrot Bebop 2 for about $410 by itself or bundle with the controller and more for $469 from Amazon.
Walkera F210 3D
As seen on our Best racing drones list
As far as an out-of-the-box solution goes in the racing world, the Walkera F210 3D is one of the best drones you’ll find today. It packs both normal and night vision cameras, a sturdy build, simple customizations and a lot of thoughtful longevity features. Not saying it won’t break if you crash it, but they’ve done what they can to protect core components and make the rest easy to replace.
Best of all, you can tweak the flight characteristics directly, adjusting the flight controller to your specifications. The F210 3D is lightweight, we hear it is extremely agile, particularly in those demanding corners of technical courses, and is fast enough to keep up on the long striaghts.
We can’t guarantee you’ll win races with the Walkera F210 3D, but if any ready to fly drone purchase was going to get you there, this may be it.
Check out the Walkera F210 3D for $348 on Amazon.
Hubsan X4 H107L
As seen in our Cheap drones guide
Getting into the ‘toy’ range here, the Hubsan X4 H107L is a fairly entry level drone great for those learning to fly or that are not in need of a robust machine to take to the skies. Also great for those with very little time on their hands, this little drone has no camera, cannot carry the GoPro and has battery enough for about 5-10 minutes of flight, depending on how you push it.
As a seemingly pointless drone as compared to the powerful camera and racing rigs on our list, we all have to start somewhere, and the Hubsan X4 for $33 on Amazon sounds like a smart price to do so.
Syma X5C
As seen in our Cheap drones guide and Best drones under $500 and Best drones for kids lists
Sticking to toy caliber drones, the Syma X5C is a solid offering for the beginning drone enthusiast. 8 minutes of flight can be had while flipping, spinning and capturing a bit of video on the 720p camera. There is even bright LED lights for night flight. Rather, check your local laws for night flight rules, but hey, there’s bright lights, so, it’s up to you.
Grab the basic model for about $40, or bump up to the explorer kit, with replacement parts and extra batteries for $60 on Amazon today.
Professional rigs
DJI Inspire 2
As seen in our Best camera drones, Best professional drones and Drone size rundown lists
I’m not going to lie, the spec list on this drone is longer than the spec list of my DSLR and car combined. Let’s shorten that down for you: on the DJI Inspire 2 (a professional drone) you get a selection of available cameras up to the highly capable 5.2K X5S camera mounted to an even more capable gimbal. Powerful motors provide speeds up to 58 mph across the ground with image and collision avoidance active, and about 13 mph in vertical lift. This is a big, heavy drone with now two hot swappable batteries, balancing out to about 27 minutes of flight.
The fact of the matter is, there is a very good chance that the best drone footage you’re going to see from here on out will be shot on the Inspire 2. DJI Demonstrated that live in front of us, and have a movie to share. I can ramble about how fun the event was, but the important part is that this is perhaps the most stable and capable drone you’ll find. With a going price of $3000 for the drone, or $6000 with remote, high end camera and accessories, it better be good.
Coming soon: Yuneec Typhoon H520
A drone we plan to put on a few lists
As we were playing with the Yuneec Typhoon H520 at CES 2017, it became apparent to us that Yuneec is a serious player in the drone space, driven to provide top notch flying products. As well, they are on par with the top drone camera players on the market. The H520 swaps through Yuneec’s available camera modules with zoom lenses, infrared and more.
Orange for safety, the Typhoon H520 offers the best features found in the retail focused Typhoon H, they look and act similarly in the sky, but the H520 is tailored for commercial use with improved controls and connectivity for the next generation CGO-series cameras.
Stay tuned for more on the Yuneec Typhoon H520.
Coming soon: DJI M200 series
As seen in our Best commercial drones list
Recently announced, and not yet up for sale, DJI has an intriguing new drone on their hands. The Matrice line of commercial and professional grade drones has long been the workhorse of DJI’s quad and multi-rotor drones, leaving many niceties to the retail drones like the Phantom and Inspire 2. Imagine combining the very best that the Inspire 2 has to offer into a heavy-duty configurable machine, that’s the M200 series.
All the best flight modes and safety features, heavy lifting with multiple camera options and configurations. We’re talking about mounting a camera on top to face upward, for things like bridge inspection. We’re also talking about hanging two cameras on the bottom, to shoot infrared and high-zoom at the same time. Sound hard to operate, no worries, one pilot can control the cameras while the second controls the drone through the dedicated FPV camera, just like the Inspire 2.
This may be priced out of range for most of us, but as far as commercial use goes, this drone is as sleek, powerful and feature rich as we’ve seen yet.
Learn all about the DJI M200 series drones here.
Coming June 2017: DJI Spark
Related reading:
DJI Spark announced
DJI Spark first impressions in New York
DJI Quickshot camera modes
Order the DJI Spark for $499 on Amazon today, or the optional Fly More package for $699.
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