Let's design a new DIY Drones header! (prize to the winner)

You may have noticed some slight design changes here over the past day, which are simply me band-aiding a situation where the external site that hosted some of our design files shut down, leaving a bunch of broken images and mangled CSS here. For now I've reverted to some native Ning design features and brought back an old header (above), but this strikes me as a good time to start the process of a proper redesign.

In Spring, Ning (which we're hosted on) will roll out a bunch of new design and functionality features, which should improve things here considerably. It still won't perfect, especially for very long comment threads, so we're going to launch some new forums for product/software discussion/support on the new manual/wiki site that we'll be previewing in a few weeks. These new forums will be based on a very good WordPress forum plug-in, so they should be a big step up from what we've currently got. And by pushing product/technical support to a separate site, DIY Drones can focus more on its original function on news and discussion about civilian UAVs and technology in general.

In the meantime, it's time to update our header. So I'd like to launch a competition for the best design. The winner will get an APM 2.5+.

Guidelines:

Create a rectangular graphic (width 955 1,000 pixels, height anything from 100 to 200 pixels) that will replace the above.
The name should stay the same ("DIY Drones") but the tagline should change to "Amateur UAVs, Contests, Products and More" Revision: I've had advice to lead with "community", so let's try this: "The Leading Community for Amateur and Civilian UAVs" Another revision! After yet more advice, let's go with "The leading community for personal UAVs". You can use any style you think looks best (caps or lowercase).
There should be some image of a UAV. Ideally, it should look cool and "drone-like" but not look military or threatening. Fixed wing or multicopter, it's up to you.
Post your submissions in the comments below
The competition will run one month, until March 23rd

Last time we did this, back in 2010, we got some great submissions. I'm looking forward to seeing what the design talent in this community can come up with this time!

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Paul Flude March 2, 2013 at 1:05am

Instead of sleeping I played a bit more with petrus' colours that everyone likes so much
c j g March 2, 2013 at 12:47am

... and rover is a little bit too near by the left part ... ;) starred at it for a minute, i think it is really funny +1
c j g March 2, 2013 at 12:42am

wow. petrus. i really like it. in the political situation we are now, maybe this is not a bad idea. Maybe you could try a version use the font/design for left part like the old ones, and the right part from this ... so it looks more (are you) serious
Paul Flude March 1, 2013 at 11:26pm

Two simple covers for your perusal
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Mark Harrison March 1, 2013 at 3:57pm

@Petrus, keep making your fun ones... I love them! They perfectly captures some of the spirit of the hobby.
Matt Gunn March 1, 2013 at 2:26pm
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Philip March 1, 2013 at 2:19pm

@Petrus Botha
Why not? You have captured the very nature of the human desire to have control over flying objects, maybe the header could start as this and fade to a more grown up version showing an adult standing next to a dish, and UAV doing its thing with no wires...
Petrus Botha March 1, 2013 at 1:34pm

or this one
Petrus Botha March 1, 2013 at 12:39pm

Something for everyone!

Is it a drone?, Yes

Is it Autonoumous?, Yes

Is it DIY, Yes

Can kids and adults relate? well yes, mostly kids.

Please dont take me seriously on this, it is just to release the tension which has build up during the course of this thread. Can we now please get back to doing real designs?
Jethro Hazelhurst March 1, 2013 at 10:04am

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