UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES & RELATED PRODUCTS

Aero Drum Ltd
Manufacturer of aerial photography Systems, RC Zeppelins & other advertising shapes.

Aerosight Innovations 
Remotely piloted vehicles and aerial photography services.

Aerosonde
Small, long range, robotic surveillance aircraft built in Australia.

Air-Media Services
Tethered & R/C blimps for advertising & aerial photography. Based in Venice, Italy.

Airship Solutions
Australian manufacturer of large R/C airships for advertising, photography and broadcasting.

Airship Technology
French manufacturer of Airships.

Altafoto
Spanish manufacturer of pan/tilt mounts for different cameras, as well as tethered blimps & kites.

Aurora Flight Sciences
Manufacturer of UAVs, including one designed for Mars. Impressive gallery of radical designs.

Autonomous Unmanned Air Vehicles
UAVs and autopilots for sale.

Bell Eagle Eye
Tilt-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Miniature version of the V-22 Osprey.

Blip Digital Camera Controllers 
R/C to USB interface for your digital camera.

Eclipse Turbojet-powered UAV
Joint project between BAE and Cranfield University.

Guardian CL-327
Aerial robot with contra-rotating rotors.

GentLED Camera Remote Control 
Extremely lightweight devices to control your stills camera or camcorder remotely.

Helipse
French manufacturer of professional filming helicopters.

Micro Pilot
Miniature autopilots for UAV's and R/C aircraft. Based in Canada.

MLB Company
Maker of "micro air vehicles" and autonomous aircraft.

Neural Robotics, Inc.
UAVs with flight control systems based on neural networks.

Phodia
French manufacturer of blimps & balloons for photography and advertising.

Publi-Zeppelines
Tethered & R/C blimps for advertising & aerial photography, based in Spain. Site has a button for English.

Sikorsky "Cypher"
From the original helicopter pioneers, comes this "UFO" craft.

Stanford University - Hummingbird
Autonomous helicopter using GPS for attitude and position.

Steadicopter
Fully autonomous robotic helicopters.

Zeppelin Dirigibili
Italian manufacturer of airships for aerial advertising & photography.

UAV Flight Systems
GPS-based flight control systems for UAVs. Based in Colorado, USA.

UAV Vision 
Australian manufacturer of stabilized camera mounts and turbine-powered UAV helicopters.

V-TOL Aerospace
Manufacturer of robotic helicopters, blimps, parafoils & control systems. Based in Australia.

 RESEARCHERS, HOBBYISTS & INNOVATORS

Aerograffects
R/C aerial photography and other things.

CUE Air Pictures
Japanese site. Aerial pictures & videos to download. One of their pilots is a teddy bear.

Cyber Flyer
Val Petrov's live video experiments on a model helicopter.

Darren's home made camera rocket
More rocket action. Has construction information and pictures.

Digital Photography from Gliders
This page by Mike Shellim has plans for building a digital camera R/C interface.

FreeSpace
Flying to the edge of space with a home-made camera balloon.

Glenn Anderson's Photo Planes
Some nice details and closeups.

It's Just One Man's way of Having Fun
A great site by Chet Tuthill, a man who obviously enjoys his hobby.

John's On-board Helicam
Live video from a small helicopter. Video clips to download.

Kite Aerial Photography
An excellent introduction to this hobby. Many spectacular & beautiful aerial photos.

Kite Aerial Photography and Electronics
Ideas for sending all kinds of high-tech electronics to the heavens!

Kyteman's KAPsite
Another kite aerial photography resource, with components you can buy.

Paul Burke's Electric Photo Plane
A lightweight pusher-prop design.

R/C Aerial Photography
Matthew Strickland's Multiplex Twinstar with camera. Simple setup with good results.

RC-Cam
Good resource for electronics-savvy people wishing to build their own system.

Robert Nee's 35mm camera rocket
Contains information on his setup, and many pictures.

Robert Yan's Gliders and Photography
Great pictures & information. For the view from his glider, go to "Photo Album".

Rocketry Photography
Hi-res aerial photos. Detailed information & pictures of VERY large camera rockets!

Slowflyer Views
Don Witcher's tiny "microflight" electric planes used for aerial photography!

Steve Harvey's Aerial Photography Site
R/C aerial photography in Australia, using small gas and electric powered models.

Terry Rea's video rocket
Some neck-breaking in-flight videos can be downloaded here.

 COMMERCIAL R/C AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

Advanced Aerials
R/C helicopter photography in the USA. Lots of sample photos.

Aerial Perspectives of Arizona 
Uses masts and other methods to achieve low level shots.

Aerial Vantage Photography
R/C helicopter photography in the USA.

Aerial View 
Aerial photos from small electric planes. Based in Massachusetts, USA.

Aerial Images
R/C heli photography in California. Camera tilted via mount & panned with tail rotor.

Aeropix
R/C helicopter photography in Adelaide, Australia.

Airborne Video Services
Ohio-based business using R/C helicopters.

Birds Eye Video & Photography
R/C helicopter photography in the USA.

Blue Sky Imaging
Airships and blimps used for banner advertising & aerial photography in Canada.

Captures Aerial Photography
R/C helicopter photography in USA. Uses medium format camera & stablizing systems.

Copter Films 
R/C helicopter filming services in Argentina. Good pictures of their ball-shaped camera mount.

Eagle Skycam Low Level Aerial Photography
A nicely presented site from San Diego, California. Helicopter-based.

Evolution Productions
Advanced helicopters and blimps for video and film. Great photos of their equipment.

Eye In The Sky
R/C helicopter photography in Ontario, Canada. Comprehensive info, sample photos.

Eye In The Sky
R/C helicopter photography in the UK. Nice sample aerial photos.

HeliCam
Thailand-based R/C helicopter operator. Offers digital & medium format photography as well as 3CCD video.

Helicam NZ 
R/C helicopter aerial photography. Based in Taupo, on the Central Plateau of New Zealand.

Helicaptures
R/C helicopter photography in the UK. Info on applications, pricing, output formats and safety.

Helimetrex
R/C helicopter photography in Queensland, Australia.

High Spy
R/C helicopter photography in England.

Hovercam
Video and motion film specialists based in the UK.

Lynx! Sky Media
Low altitude flying cameras and advertising. Based in the Netherlands.

Northwest R/C Photography
A new R/C heli outfit in the USA.

Peaks View Photography
R/C helicopter photography in Missouri and Illinois, USA. Many samples on the site.

Perfect Perspectives Aerial 
R/C helicopter aerial photography. Based in Ohio, USA.

Photo Higher 
R/C helicopter photography in New Zealand.

RCHelicam.com
Offering stills and video. Good close-ups of their pan/tilt mount.

Remote Aerial Tripod Specialists
This Canadian operator uses rotor-assisted STOL aircraft and blimps.

Roto-Photo
Using R/C helicopter, kite & blimp. Also 360° Virtual Tours!

Sky-I
Impressive multimedia-enhanced site. You will need the Flash Plugin.

Skycam
New Zealand - based firm using light aircraft and R/C helicopters.

SkyCamera San Diego 
Aerial photography & high-def video using R/C helicopters.

SkyPan International
360 degree panoramic aerial photos using R/C helicopters.

UAV Systems 
R/C helicopter photography & surveying in Australia.

Video Aero & Fotografia
Mexican firm specialising in R/C aerial photography.

Volovisione 
Aerial video and photography from 4-rotor flying platforms.