{"id":422,"date":"2021-05-30T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T21:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredcolclough.com\/?page_id=422"},"modified":"2025-01-14T01:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T09:19:05","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dronesbyfred.com\/?page_id=422","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are&#8230; semi-retired IT Professionals, who&#8217;ve always loved flight! Drones have taken us by STORM!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve built just about every drone you can imagine, and we&#8217;re continuing to IMAGINE new ones! That&#8217;s where the fun is! Bottom-line: WE LOVE TO BUILD! We love it so much, that we&#8217;re selling many PROFESSIONALLY-BUILT drones at NEAR COST, to benefit this fast-growing hobby , and get more awesome builds in the AIR!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE****** We now professionally 3D print for you!  Send us an email and we&#8217;ll get it done quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Browse our builds, browse the BLOG for ideas, thoughts, and join the discussions on upcoming builds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Send us an email (Or blog post) to suggest a new build of your own!  We&#8217;ll build to your specs, professionally, and quickly.  We really do love being in constant &#8220;build-mode&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of all:  enjoy this high-tech, super-fun hobby with us!  Whether you&#8217;re an FPV racer, free-stylist, long-range videographer or just like puttering around:  we&#8217;ve got the build for you.  And yes, we&#8217;re starting to design very &#8220;budget&#8221;-friendly drones, including those without FPV, as we&#8217;ve had plenty of requests.  So if you just like flying around, without FPV, we&#8217;ve got the budget build for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have fun &amp; keep flying!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; The <a data-type=\"mailto\" href=\"mailto:dronesbyfred@gmail.com\">DronesByFred <\/a>team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My (Fred&#8217;s) Preferred GEAR:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Radio:  FrSky Taranis X9D Plus SE 2019 with TBS Crossfire Micro Tx JR plugin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Radio 2:  TBS Tango 2 Pro &lt;&lt;&lt;&#8212;&#8211; Loving the Crossfire system!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Receiver1 FrSky R-XSR via F.Port<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Receiver2 TBS Sixty9 (VTX and Nano Rx AIO)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goggles: SkyZone04X V2 *  NEW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frame:  Lumenier QAV-RXL2 10&#8243;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FC Stack 1: T-Motor F7 Stack F55A Pro II F722<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FC Stack 2:  SpeedyBee V3 F722 3-6S 30&#215;30 Stack\/Combo (F722 FC \/ 50A 32bit 4in1 ESC) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VTX: Crossfire SIXTY-9 AIO VTX\/Rx<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GPS: RDQ Micro M8N GLONASS GPS Module<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Motors 1:  Cine66 2812 &lt;&lt;&#8211; Awesome stability and range for videography<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Motors 2:  Brotherhobby Tornado T5 3115 900KV &lt;&lt;&lt;&#8212;- BEASTS!!!  Awesome for LIFT &amp; Long Range!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>DIGITAL (HD):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>DJI O3 Air Unit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Holybro Kakute F7 HDV w\/ TEKKO32 4-in-1 ESC\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Autonomous Flight w\/ iNav<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DJI Goggles V3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>RECOMMENDED PROTOCOLS:  F.Port, Crossfire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Simple to connect\/activate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faster interface, long range (CrossFire)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AIO Sixty9 Module is Cost-effective and excellent quality (VTX + Rx)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My day-to-day Drones:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>DJI Mavic 2 ZOOM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Typhoon H Plus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DJI FPV<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DJI Avata (Indoor POWER!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lumenier QAV-RXL2 10&#8243; Premium &#8211; TBS Crossfire, Long Range<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>iFlight Nazgul XL5 5&#8243; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are&#8230; semi-retired IT Professionals, who&#8217;ve always loved flight! 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