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Originally Posted by SlowEddy
3: I would rather spend the money on something more useless........ like a flying version of this abomination mwhaha
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Soooo....Possibly a Parot AR drone RC quadcopter figuring into your 2013 "Skunk Works" project schedule there Eddy? Whatever you use for a UAV if it's to be flown in proximity to humans, it would need to be made reasonably safe from accidental collision with arms/heads/hands/etc. A regular electric RC heli like a T-Rex 450/650 has far too much rotor inertia and could easily take off someone's hand or worse if the main rotor blades caught someone while spinning at full flight RPM. At least the Parrot has a foam protective shroud around each of the quad rotors acting as a safety "bumper". But given that the Parrot AR is more or less an advanced novelty, I am uncertain of what useful load in terms of payload weight it can haul into the air as compared with a larger conventional heli. It does have the advantage of video streaming so you won't need to haul a video camera aloft, and it is also fly-by-WiFi controlled. It connects to your iPhone or iPad and uses the phone's inertial sensor for flight control.
Could be interesting....
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