On 11 December 2025, a home-built drone by father son duo from Cape Town reclaimed the title of the world’s fastest battery-powered quadcopter, reports Cape {town} Etc.
Picture: Luke Maximo Bell / Youtube
The drone reaches an official average speed of 657.59 km/h, Guinness World Records confirmed.
According to MyBroadband, father and son Mike and Luke Bell tested the Peregreen V4 in four official runs on a private farm near Melkbostrand, recording a peak run of 659 km/h and an averaged speed that earned the Guinness record.
Luke Bell said the team spent months refining motors, streamliners and propellers to cut drag and improve reliability. ‘Fortunately for us, for the past five months, we’ve been working on improving every aspect of our drone,’ he said in a video detailing the build.
Mike Bell underlined the small changes that made a big difference. ‘It reduces drag hugely, which is the whole point,’ he said of the 3D printed streamliners that cover each propeller base.
Engineers outside the Bells’ workshop have noted the V4’s focus on repeatable, reliable runs rather than one-off power boosts, a point illustrated by the team’s motor testing and computational fluid dynamics work.
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This marks the pair’s third official Guinness title in a multi-year project that began as a garage experiment and grew into a precision engineering effort.
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