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Up until the other day, I thought this was the hottest, coolest, hippest, fabbest remote-controlled flying ~~airplane~~ ~~vehicle~~ ~~device~~ thingamabob in town:

But that was then.

Meet the new champ:

It's hard to say which is more impressive; the aircraft or his handling of it. He shows some exceptional skill in places. Home site is here.

Posted by Dr. Mercury in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 10:00 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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Like I say, truly fun for all ages.

#1 Bird Dog on 2011-12-09 10:16 (Reply)

I meant to add that, if you just armed this thing a little, you could have the Taliban running home to mommy.

#1.1 Bird Dog on 2011-12-09 10:20 (Reply)

And imagine how many we could get for the price of one drone. Send about 20,000 of them over the ridge each carrying 1/4 lb of C-4 apiece, with little megaphones instead of mufflers so it'd sound like the Drone From Hell while still a mile away and in the center of each craft mount a replica of Porky the Pig's grinning head. Maybe put "The Virgins Await You!" on the side in Arabic, just for effect.

As far as this guy's expertise with the craft, there's a spot near the end when he makes it go through flip-flops and not only controls the over-under, but kills the power right when it's upside-down, over and over, a very practiced move.

#1.1.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2011-12-09 12:04 (Reply)

And here's a link to the motors.

#2 chuck on 2011-12-09 12:25 (Reply)

That is amazing! I would add shrapnel coated in pig blood to Doc's idea.

#3 mudbug on 2011-12-09 13:57 (Reply)

Incredible! (True for both vehicles and handlers of same!)

#4 joated (Link) on 2011-12-09 14:52 (Reply)

You know, besides the military implication of sending 20 or so of these over a ridge line with C4 attached, it might be fun to put a body around it and use it as a UFO.

This goes WAY back almost 50 years ago, but back in the hey day of RC, when a lot of the RC controls were on the 6 meter ham band and largely hand built or experimental, some of the amateur radio club (including yours truly) built three aircraft - simple compared to today's machines, but effective in getting off the ground, climbing and turning. We added little servos to the undercarriage of the planes and attached long fuse cherry bombs - called 'em M-80s back then - light 'em, take off and do bombing runs from the football practice field.

Up and until we lost control of one plane which subsequently flew through a window of the science classroom and went boom. To say that the high school administration was not amused does not do it justice.

Fortunately, truly fortunately, we had reputations as "good" students so we got off relatively lightly - detention for four weeks after and we were banned from using the football field as a landing strip.

Seriously, that was pretty funny right?

#5 Tom Francis on 2011-12-09 19:51 (Reply)

I'd love to get one just to screw with Bats

#6 Bob on 2011-12-11 10:32 (Reply)

OT Question Doc.

I can't open Maggie's home page with firefox, but I can with internet explorer.

When I try to open it with firefox, the url comes up in the address window but the tab at the top says RGLLC and the pade remains blank.

Maggie's is the only site I am having a problem with.

Any ideas as to the problem?

#7 feeblemind on 2011-12-11 16:51 (Reply)

Feebs - No ideas offhand. One thing you could try is to clear out the cache. Tools menu, 'Clear Recent History', set the menu at the top to 'Everything', uncheck every box except 'Cache', run.

You might also go to Tools menu, 'Options', 'Content' panel and make sure nothing's in the three 'Exception' boxes.

After that, I suppose an uninstall/reinstall is the order of the day, although it might cost you your bookmarks. If it's important you save them, let me know and I'll walk you through the process. There's no 'export bookmarks' feature, unfortunately.

#8 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2011-12-11 17:02 (Reply)

re One thing you could try is to clear out the cache. Tools menu, 'Clear Recent History', set the menu at the top to 'Everything', uncheck every box except 'Cache', run.

It worked Doc. Easy as pie. Thanks a million.

#8.1 feeblemind on 2011-12-11 21:10 (Reply)

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