Origins
Let’s Drone Out was conceived to build up talent for commentary at Team MiniAirshow events, starting out as a weekly live radio talk show on TTNS. The shows were always recorded interactively in front of a live online audience, maintaining strong community engagement. Episodes were manually edited to meet podcast platform requirements, hosted on SoundCloud and released as an RSS feed proxied by various podcast platforms from iTunes to YouTube Music.
Hosts
LDO was hosted by a rotating cast of regulars over the years.
Notable Guests
Recognisable names from across the FPV and drone world have been on the show over the years, including content creator Joshua Bardwell, tricopter legend David Windestal, Cleanflight progenitor Dominic Clifton, troubleshooter extraordinaire Lee Schofield, FPV entrepreneur Tommy Tibajia, and Queen of giant drone racing and 3D flying Zoe Stumbaugh.
Hosting Timeline
Live on thethursdaynightshow.com’s internet radio stream, before LDO had its own home.
Moved away from the musical TTNS to form its own short-lived PoweringOn talk internet radio station.
Started being recorded live on YouTube via Google Hangouts on Air, through to Hangouts’ retirement.
A brief stint recording over Discord with OBS, which was a struggle to maintain across different host availability each week.
Settled on StreamYard - taking advantage of a single cloud instance with assets and keys available to all hosts, and even auto-uploads of local audio recordings from each guests browser.
Beyond the Weekly Show
Alongside the regular Thursday episodes, LDO ran the LDO Drone Games, and brought the crew together in person for the LDOhno and LDOhnonotagain meetups. The show also went on the road for live streams from MiniAirshows and for road trips to other events and hosts' favourite spots across the UK.
LDO was supported by sponsors including Fossilsstuff early on, briefly making use of YouTubes Adsense and Superchats before the admin overhead was too great for those. Patreon ended up being the most sustainable way for the community to keep the show on the road. Direct donations via PayPal also helped massively. See here for a full breakdown of the Finances.
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