The Hiro Action Sports Airframe is a quadcopter case designed with hard impact in mind: it envelops everything but the motors and propellers in hard plastic.

To validate their design, the researchers crashed a quadcopter equipped with their airframe mid-flight at a speed of roughly 1.5 miles per hour.

BOULDER, CO--(Marketwired - Dec 6, 2016) - Frustum, a pioneer in generative design and topology optimization software, today announced the "The Generate Quadcopter Challenge: A GrabCAD Challenge ...

Flying ready-made quadcopters is fun. Eventually, though, most hackers get the urge to build their own. One of the most challenging parts is building a robust airframe. [Thomas Jarrett] has an inte… ...

Latitude Engineering’s Hybrid Quadrotor UAV combines the maneuverability and versatility of a quadcopter with the endurance and efficiency of a fixed-wing aircraft. It also features both ...

Sure, these events might have been cooked up to promote an extra-tough quadcopter airframe that’s being funded through Kickstarter, ...

Although the drone itself resembles a traditional quadcopter with four arms and rotors, its fully inflatable body can be adjusted to have either a stiff or soft airframe based on the amount of air ...