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Re: Love those Quadrotors!
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 10:41 pm
by dongregg
I think quadrotors could have changed my life. I'm the kid who could never get a kite into the air. Charlie Brown may have tried more often, but our success was equal -- goose egg. Or maybe he was ahead of me. I never got a kite high enough for a tree to eat it!
Re: Love those Quadrotors!
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 11:24 pm
by PeteMork
dongregg wrote:I think quadrotors could have changed my life. I'm the kid who could never get a kite into the air. Charlie Brown may have tried more often, but our success was equal -- goose egg. Or maybe he was ahead of me. I never got a kite high enough for a tree to eat it!
I had a lot of kites that were eaten by cars, trees, and an occasional dog. All were worth the sacrifice.
Re: Love those Quadrotors!
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 1:12 am
by PeteMork
An interesting collection of drone fails. I'm sure my wife feels like this first, obviously long-suffering, lady sometimes while I'm flying my Tiny Whoop around the house.
And many of these remind me of GK's comment about his dog and drones being a bad combination:
specifically at 1:11, 1:25 (indirectly), 3:29, and 5:25.
Cat's too, for Don: 0:16 and 6:01
Re: Love those Quadrotors!
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 2:40 am
by dongregg
It's as though they can sense your fear!
Re: Love those Quadrotors!
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2017 3:35 pm
by PeteMork
I'm sure many of you will recognize a few landmarks here. The advantage of Tiny Whoops: They can go where no (
big, giant drone) has gone before.
(With permission of course.)
Re: Love those Quadrotors!
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2017 4:54 pm
by dongregg
What a rush. Thought of Oskar and Eli sightseeing in Paris.
Re: Love those Quadrotors!
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 5:49 am
by PeteMork
Now, this one is different -- and might be disturbing to some.
The action really starts at about 2:30 or so and escalates far beyond anything I could have imagined. I'm surprised anyone survived.
Re: Love those Quadrotors!
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 6:14 am
by dongregg
Okay, that was fun. Beyond what you could have imagined? Ah come on. As soon as you introduced us to quadrotors, I thought of Roman candles. But I admit I didn't think of trying to shoot down other quadrotors!
I built a model of a WWI Nieuport 13 armed with rockets when I was about 13. I guess that warped my young, tender brain.
Re: Love those Quadrotors!
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 3:09 pm
by Jameron
Re: Love those Quadrotors!
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 9:17 pm
by a_contemplative_life
Harder to hit a moving target than it looks!