DraganFly III Gyro-stabilized RC Helicopter

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday August 9, 2002 @11:59AM from the scare-the-cats dept.

Pronoun54 writes "It hovers! It spins! It spies! The Draganflyer III weighs just 17 ounces with its high-tech stabilization system. "As an eye in the sky, the Draganflyer III can be used indoors or out, up to a mile away, to take aerial views of real estate, promote products at trade shows, or give the guy in the next cube a close encounter he won't soon forget." "One more advantage of the Draganflyer III: if you're grounded by bad weather, you can still open the throttle and hover indoors." Their site has videos of this thing in action both indoors and out. Seems like it can move pretty fast at top speed." The Times has a piece talking about the piezo gyroscopes (including purty pictures) that the chopper uses to self-stabilize.

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Nice ad! by dougmc · 2002-08-09 12:03 · Score: 4, Funny

This thing has been advertised in my R/C magazines for months now. And now they're being advertised in the NYT and Slashdot?
Their marketing people must be extremely happy!
A great way to win the war on terrorism! by t0qer · 2002-08-09 12:32 · Score: 4, Funny

Combine this with a fun GUI and we can chase osama out Afghanistan. So he hides in the tunnels eh? Just load up another GUI and down some
tunnels we go!
McCut by Tablizer · 2002-08-09 15:42 · Score: 4, Funny

This is gonna do to the haircutting business what McDonalds has done to dinner.

Bulk discounts at stadiums are the wave of the future.

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