Fat Shark

Fat Shark logo

Fat Shark, founded in 2007, manufactures FPV (where FPV stands for first-person view) headsets for drone racing. Fat Shark headsets have been showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show Drone Rodeo in 2015 and 2017.[1][2] In 2016, Fat Shark received a Terry Award by the for first-place FPV item, an award voted on by hobbyists through HobbyKing.[3] Multiple Fat Shark products were recommended for hobbyist drone pilots in the 2017 Drone Enthusiast list of "Best FPV Goggles & Gadgets."[4] Fat Shark holds an annual drone racing event called the Fat Shark Frenzy and Drone Olympics in Ontario.[5] and was a major sponsor to the first annual U.S. National Drone Racing Championships in 2015.

Fat Shark was founded by Greg French and is headquartered in Shenzhen with offices in San Francisco , Chicago and the Cayman Islands.

## References

1. ↑ Grush, Loren (2015-01-06). "CES 2015: Flying, Racing, And Destroying Drones At The Drone Rodeo". Popular Science. http://www.popsci.com/ces-2015-flying-racing-and-destroying-drones-drone-rodeo. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
2. ↑ Welch, Chris (2015-01-07). "We raced, wrestled, and wrecked at our first ever Drone Rodeo". The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7501467/ces-2015-drone-rodeo-dji-fpv-racing-fighting. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
3. ↑ "Terry Awards 2016". RCGroups com. 2016-05-31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIGh5k07Lxc. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
4. ↑ "Best FPV Goggles & Gadgets [2017] Killer FPV Drone Racing Systems!". Dronethusiast.com. http://www.dronethusiast.com/the-ultimate-fpv-system-guide/. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
5. ↑ "First-Person View Racing Events » Fat Shark Frenzy and Drone Olympics". Fpvracingevents.com. http://fpvracingevents.com/fatsharkfrenzy/. Retrieved 2017-07-20.

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