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with auto pilot so it only crashes into things you point it at.
What could go wrong?
[actually the FPV glasses look like it would be really cool]
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But it can't hover..
That does look amazing..
that looks amazing.....
starts saving...
That looks perfect for flying into the engines of a real plane that's taking off / landing...
Which judging by the number of recent near misses reported at Heathrow seems likely to result in an accident sooner rather than later and very soon if ISIL type nutjobs decide to give it a go.
At which point all drones will hopefully be banned - based on recent experience of [s]chavs[/s] people repeatedly flying drones at low height around neighbours houses and gardens at night using remote viewing software so they could fly them without requiring line of sight.
Edit - not saying all people that fly drones are Chavs, just the ones that we've had problems with!
want want want!!! where can I get one!
Pah. 50 mp3. Child's toy.
171 mph rc helicopter...
I'm just at the learning to hover stage of collective pitch helis. They're not easy to fly - particularly at these kind of speed...
[quote=just5minutes ]At which point all drones will hopefully be banned - based on recent experience of chavs people repeatedly flying drones at low height around neighbours houses and gardens at night using remote viewing software so they could fly them without requiring line of sight.
I'm wondering what difference you think banning them will make?
Given that it is already illegal to fly them without line of sight.
Is ^ that a load of solar panel waiting for some cack-handed pilot or the top of a sunken greenhouse?
I'm wondering what difference you think banning them will make?
Because then I could start using the little drone-killing missiles (obviously launched from a RC pickup truck) I'm designing 🙂
actually the FPV glasses look like it would be really cool
I feel sick just thinking about that.
Pah. A racing quad or hex can hit 50mph, no bother. And a Tek Sumo built up for FPV will outperform that thing, and be more satisfying, and safer, too. The problem with the commercialisation of 'drones' isn't that ISIS get hold of them, it's that rich brats who don't give a shit get hold of one, and end up killing or seriously injuring someone with it. Without the time and love investing in building, debugging, and learning to fly these potentially dangerous things, they are just a high velocity but disposable play thing, that happens to bloody hurt if it hits someone. People have been making model aeroplanes and helicopters of similar and greater mass (and in the case of the helis, CONSIDERABLY more potential lethality) for years, with very few issues. Now that the great unwashed have gotten their mitts on them, the days of model aviation as we know it are numbered, I reckon. Sad.