Drones, quadcopters, and FPV flight

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Re: Drones, quadcopters, and FPV flight

Post by FRUNKenstein » Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:14 am

Call Cuda's lawyer immediately. You'll end up with a new Ferrari out of the deal.
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Re: Drones, quadcopters, and FPV flight

Post by gnat » Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:36 am

FRUNKenstein wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:14 am Call Cuda's lawyer immediately. You'll end up with a new Ferrari out of the deal.
Nah, this is aeronautical related so he'll be seeing something like this soon:
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Though that also might be related to his choice of shipping packaging for Spiff...

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Re: Drones, quadcopters, and FPV flight

Post by FRUNKenstein » Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:31 pm

Or maybe something more like this:
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Re: Drones, quadcopters, and FPV flight

Post by gnat » Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:34 pm

Nah, that's my house -> garage transportation. He can't have that.

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Re: Drones, quadcopters, and FPV flight

Post by FRUNKenstein » Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:37 pm

Well, I do see the resemblance to your IMSB.
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Re: Drones, quadcopters, and FPV flight

Post by 5chn3ll » Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:14 pm

The bearing, she isn't so chiny any more.

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Re: Drones, quadcopters, and FPV flight

Post by gnat » Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:33 pm

Saw at Costco tonight they are selling a DJI Mavic Air package for $699.

Got home to look into what kind of deal that might be ($100) and found two interesting tidbits:

1) DJI is apparently has a majority stake in Hasselblad.
2) One of the Mavic 2 options comes with a Hasselblad engineered camera on it.

Item 2 might finally be my way in with the wife. The beginning of the conversation went:

Me: so you really want a Hasselblad?
Her: well I wouldn't complain if one landed in my lap.
Me: it's interesting that you put it that way...

:mrgreen:

Of course not having quite the "fuck the FAA" view point I do about drones her first question was where I would fly it (sucks being 2mi from the runway of an international airport).

This was followed by "what would you do with it" to wit I could only shrug...

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Re: Drones, quadcopters, and FPV flight

Post by FRUNKenstein » Tue Dec 04, 2018 7:12 am

gnat wrote: Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:33 pm Of course not having quite the "fuck the FAA" view point I do about drones her first question was where I would fly it (sucks being 2mi from the runway of an international airport and next door to VW Group of America headquarters).
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Re: Drones, quadcopters, and FPV flight

Post by gnat » Tue Dec 04, 2018 7:18 am

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Re: Drones, quadcopters, and FPV flight

Post by 5chn3ll » Mon Dec 10, 2018 12:26 pm

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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