This past July, Steele Davis walked onto Sacramento's Bonney Field and prepared to steer a drone around a flag-marked track. First he donned a pair of goggles. Then he launched his H-shaped quadcopter and sent it into his signature trick, an inverted yaw spin. "You flip upside down and then rotate," says Davis, a 25-year-old from Atlanta. "So you're inverted, but you're being forced toward the ground because the props are still spinning." Davis is one of the pioneers in the sport of first-person-view drone racing. Pilots competing in the races wear goggles that give them a drone's-eye aerial view, streamed from cameras on their machines. The effect is as if they had been miniaturized and placed in tiny drone cockpits.
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