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| Posted: Wed Jan 29th, 2014 14:24 |
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MaxSouthOz
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There was a young American guy killed with one of these recently. He flew it into himself and the rotor blades cut his throat - in front of an audience. I'm trying to Google the story. Don't hold your breath.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29th, 2014 14:27 |
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MaxSouthOz
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1_TskvUwXM
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29th, 2014 14:28 |
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jk
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MaxSouthOz wrote: There was a young American guy killed with one of these recently. He flew it into himself and the rotor blades cut his throat - in front of an audience. OMG that is horrible. The ones I have seen have rotor guards but I guess that they can break. Nothing in life is 100% safe.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29th, 2014 14:59 |
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amazing50
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The roto blades on his model were about 30cm long. The hexacopters have 6 smaller blades each with much less inerta. Not saying one couldn't slit your throat, but I think it would be less likely.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29th, 2014 16:27 |
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jk
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amazing50 wrote:The roto blades on his model were about 30cm long. The hexacopters have 6 smaller blades each with much less inerta. Yes the DJI Phantom has four sets of four smaller blades. I do fancy having a go with one but it seems like an expensive toy that I will probably tire of fairly quickly.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 29th, 2014 16:54 |
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Graham Whistler
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Look at u-tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8bOJDLnBjU "Quadcopter flyss Blackpool Goldern Mile" Look at all of it you will be impressed at the quality! No doubt this sort of use will soon get changes in the law to prevent danger to the public? In UK it is possible to put a quadcopter and camera in the air to do this for about £1000.00.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30th, 2014 03:40 |
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jk
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Very nice. Guy has good control of the helicopter. I can imagine though that there will be reports of people crashing into things causing problems with the knee-jerk reaction of these units then needing to be licensed!
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30th, 2014 05:18 |
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Graham Whistler
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Yes I agree, I had been very keen to get one for my railway filming as Helicopter hire on last years WHR in Snodowdonia cost me £2500 for 1.5 hrs filming! My plans to get one are now on hold. The railways would not be very happy even with such small radio controlled object hitting one of their trains full of passengers! Also to follow a train travelling at up to 25 mph you could get out of radio contact very quickly.(With GPS control the Quadcopter will return on it's own to hover over point of take off if raidio control is lost!)
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30th, 2014 06:40 |
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jk
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If you were on the train then you could have the helicopter fly off to one side of the train and be in visual control of the unit.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30th, 2014 08:38 |
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Graham Whistler
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If you film track-side on railways you have to pass PTS (Personal Track Safety) safety training every year. I asked one of the training officers about radio Quadcopters and he doubted if I would be allowed to do it. Needless to say if you did it with out asking you would be banned from that railway very quickly! Also word would pass very quickly and no doubt the railways would stop stocking my DVDs in their shops! I know quite a few professional photographers are starting to use them, also they used one in a recent "Top Gear" BBC film. The slightly larger Quadcopters will carry a pro SLR with gimballed mount and full use of most controls on the camera.
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