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Aerial Video Footage of New York Taken By RC Plane
kkleiner writes with this fun bit from Singularity Hub: "Expert remote control pilot Raphael 'Trappy' Pirker recently took his 54 inch Zephyr model plane on a harrowing tour of Manhattan and the surrounding area. The best part: his RC vehicle was fitted with a camera that wirelessly transmitted an amazing recording of everything it saw – Pirker was piloting his craft with this visual feed. As you can see in the video, the results were spectacular. The plane looks to be flying within a few feet of buildings and whizzing past bridges with ease. You have to check out around 2:01 when he starts to buzz right by the Statute of Liberty."
Quite honestly, I'm surprised this didn't cause some sort of panic...
It has been modified and tested at a range of 27 miles, with a supposed max operating range of 120. That's news for nerds.
Way to many edits. Destroyed the flow
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
You know how every few months someone posts yet another video of guys taking video from high altitude balloons, and we all yawn because we've seen it a dozen times or more?
This is the exact opposite of that.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
What sheep Americans have become! A guy does a cool, harmless thing like fly a model airplane over the East River and suddenly everybody on this board is biting their fingernails about whether the government will *allow* us to do such a thing. The government does not *allow* us to do anything; in this country, it's what we, the People, allow the government to do that's important. We allow them do very specific, limited things at our sufferance. Everything else we do at our pleasure and the government can fuck off if it doesn't like it.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Morons, sometimes we are saved because the idiot with an islamist terrorist idea is not that smart - like the timsquare bomber. This moron has made the perfect equipment for them and is now going to sell it as well. This is not so funny.
Absolutely. No-one should be allowed to sell anything that might be useful to a terrorist.
Like cars. Or gas canisters.
Or underwear.
I don't mind them doing it, but this is insane, especially when doing it in an area highly sensitized to flying missiles/planes.
It only takes a few assholes in the government or the legislative to imagine such a plane flying with a dangerous payload (explosives, dirty rad material etc) to ban R/C flying planes, forcing me and so many others who enjoy this hobby to simply stop.
Think it can't happen? They did it already once with a whole class of model rockets...
That doesn't make this activity insane. That makes the governmental idiots insane.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
No. It makes the electorate insane.
You get the government you want.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
No. It makes the electorate insane.
You get the government you want.
The electorate doesn't matter. Regardless of who we vote for we get the government the corporations and lobbyists want.
Some of what I say is fact, some is conjecture, the rest I'm just blowing out my ass...you guess.