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General => General => Topic started by: Ingo Monk on March 07, 2012, 09:44:12 AM

Title: Real life Lone Star?
Post by: Ingo Monk on March 07, 2012, 09:44:12 AM

http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-houston/drone-crashes-into-swat-team-tank-during-police-test-near-houston (http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-houston/drone-crashes-into-swat-team-tank-during-police-test-near-houston)

....bahahahahaha!

Title: Re: Real life Lone Star?
Post by: Capt_North on March 08, 2012, 02:55:02 AM

*Face palms into desk*

Title: Re: Real life Lone Star?
Post by: Ruski on March 10, 2012, 08:17:09 AM

currently the biggest problem with the mini-helocopters is the link.
they opperate in the 900 mhz to 2.4ghz range, and have back up chanel finding and some other cool stuff.
but: they are vunerable to cellphone jammers, microwave ovens, and other common interfearance.
you can be happily buzzing allong, then someone microwaves a burrito and bam! upside down in a ball of flames.
or, you get cross-chatter: if you are flying with a group of 5 guys, and someone signal jumps onto your frequency, your tentative control of hovering pitch rotation and collective ballance suddenly gets a 'digital crosswind'. if you are high up, you can recover. if you are 50 feet from tera-firma... not so much.

all and all, its an ace i wouldn't mind having on my team. but i wouldn't rely on it for every situation.