Boris B

Boris B. is an FPV pilot and software developer from Netherlands who started the Betaflight flight controller firmware.

He got interested in FPV in 2010 when he bought an RC helicopter from a small market in Belgium and put a camera on it. He then discovered FPV videos by Raphael Pirker (then famous for his long-range winged flights) and juz70 (who flew FPV freestyle with a quadcopter back in 2011). Boris then bought a ready-to-fly quadcopter from HoverThings.com and started flying it in 2011.

In 2013, he became one of the first users of 5-inch mini quadcopters in the FPV community. In May 2015, as a professional software developer, he started contributing code to Cleanflight, forking it into Betaflight in the same year.

In 2016, he was very actively involved in development of Betaflight software (in addition to his day job as a software engineer). In 2017, as it became too taxing, he abandoned the project.

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