Stefan Mileschin

The team behind the Drone Racing League just set a Guinness world record for the Fastest ground speed by a battery-powered remote-controlled quadcopter. The drone called RacerX achieved an average speed of 163.5 MPH, and a top speed of 179.g MPH. Weighing in at 1.76lb, it's quad motors spin at 46,000 RPM, there is no mention on how long its two 1300mah batteries last. Insane. I have no idea how that could be controllable, and the headset the pilot was using looks absolutely tiny compared to what I see from commercial models like from DJI. In order to set the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS achievement, the drone needed to fly back and forth across a measurement course of 100 m (328 ft.), with the official record set as the average of the top speed achieved on each of those flights. Therefore, the official speed measured for the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title is 163.5 miles per hour. Gury flew the drone along a field in the state of New York and clocked in at the record speed while a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS adjudicator was on-site to verify the attempt. Earlier, prototypes of the drone burst into flames when hitting its highest point of acceleration due to the amount of power applied.

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/03/..._world_record/