Nearing 3,000 schools. All 50 states. Elementary classrooms to a United States service academy.
When a classroom drone gets discontinued, the expectation is the program restarts on the next one. Everything the teacher spends learning, everything the students get fluent in, everything the district fought to fund, resets. Hopper is the drone that does not leave you there.
Live from Hopper's downward camera. The main view is the drone's own feed; the inset is the flight in the room. A 10x10 space with 8.5 ft ceilings, tighter than a classroom.
Buy Hopper once and two things happen that do not happen anywhere else in this category. Everything you build on it carries forward, and the drone itself keeps getting better. Here is what that means.
A student flies the same Hopper from an upper-elementary classroom to a United States service academy. All the time a teacher spends learning the drone, the platform, and the curriculum carries forward every year instead of resetting. They get more fluent, not sent back to the start.
New capability lands free on the Hopper a school already owns. It has happened once already and it is about to happen again.
Designed and manufactured in San Diego, California. NDAA Section 889 compliant, so Perkins, Title I, JROTC, and federal workforce contracts are cleared.
Perkins V eligible. Title IV-A eligible. Grant-research support included. Purchase orders accepted. Explore Grant Research
Track record
2023
The airframe, the board, and the flight stack every release since has been built on.
July 2026
A major flight control upgrade. Shipped free to every Hopper ever sold, including the ones bought in 2023.
Next
Next major upgrade.
Cost to existing owners
Purchased once
$0
$0
Stability was never the point. It was the prerequisite. A drone that holds position is a drone that can be taught to reason. Firmware 2.0 made that possible. Think is what it was for.
Designed and manufactured in San Diego, California
Behind Hopper is everything a program needs, from one American company. US-built hardware. A full curriculum platform, from first flight to autonomy and real coding. A national competition. And Grace, an AI assistant that knows every lesson. One relationship, one contract, from an upper-elementary classroom to a United States service academy.
Teaching a class, homeschooling, or building a summer camp? Grace knows the FTW curriculum cold, every lesson across Build Fly Code, Hopper Quest, Part 107, and Essentials. Tell her your grade level, your schedule, and what you have, and she will advise you on where to start, what to run, and how to pace it across your weeks. Ask her anything. She is the expert, and she is right here. Free for Build Fly Code platform access holders and anyone considering joining.
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Hopper Firmware 2.0 is here. It is the largest improvement to flight control and stability we have ever shipped.
Hopper holds position better, responds more precisely, and handles rough landings without drama. Crash detection was rebuilt, so a normal landing no longer leaves the drone unable to take off again.
Every Hopper gets it. Free. It loads onto drones already in the field through the FTW Fly app in a few minutes. Nothing to buy, nothing to ship back, no new hardware.
That is possible because FTW owns its entire flight control and telemetry stack. American built, wholly owned, zero outside dependency. When the software gets better, the drones already in your classroom get better with it.
Watch the walkthrough, then open FTW Fly and update yours.