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When will these compact drones become less noisy? I know there are new propeller designs being researched to be much less like a swarm of bees is flying around near you, but don't know how far off they are to retail commercialization. It just makes it hard to stomach flying a drone in a pristine environment knowing you are disturbing all human and non-human animals nearby.
Awesome new cameras, but how do you land these things safely on a sailboat? It's always tricky and scary.
I once did this and it was rather scary. I was sailing in Croatia (on sails) and we’ve spotted some dolphins. So I launched a Mavic Air to observe them from closer. Soon the wind picked up and so did the waves. I piloted the drone back to the boat and planned to catch it in my hand, but I haven’t felt comfortable doing so, since the boat moved like crazy, while the drone was static in the air. Don’t forget to imagine…
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Spy drone or not, why can’t US companies design and manufacture better products to compete with DJI?
we gutted most of our manufacturing and outsourced it to china decades ago. we Let our entire non military manufacturing industry die on the vine so there isn't much of a culture of supply chain left. blame harvard business school. The cumulative damage of their Alum to the american economy is astronomical
Of course, are citizens ready to pay more than double in some cases? Not sure.
When will these compact drones become less noisy? I know there are new propeller designs being researched to be much less like a swarm of bees is flying around near you, but don't know how far off they are to retail commercialization. It just makes it hard to stomach flying a drone in a pristine environment knowing you are disturbing all human and non-human animals nearby.
There's always a hope that someone might invent a really silent propellor, and there's some funky stuff you can do there with trailing edge profiles, but I don't think we'll see a huge leap beyond toroidals for a while.
I have no experience with drones, but based on the video, I was expecting it to be like a $40k product.
Every device manufacturer tends to fib a bit on battery life vs. real world, however, 45 mins of flight time is impressive. Even if its 30-35 mins fully maxed out that can give you a lot of time to creat content and explore
Tangentially: I wonder if a really long-flying quad copter can be made using a regular ICE + generator as a source of electricity. Carbohydrates are still more energy-dense.
I suspect we’ll see tailsitter models come out eventually that combine the benefits of fixed wing aircraft.
Someone did make one with a lawnmower but it has death machine vibes:
https://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/gas-powered-quadcopter-...
"Your Favorite Chinese multi-sensor distributed spying platform".
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I once did this and it was rather scary. I was sailing in Croatia (on sails) and we’ve spotted some dolphins. So I launched a Mavic Air to observe them from closer. Soon the wind picked up and so did the waves. I piloted the drone back to the boat and planned to catch it in my hand, but I haven’t felt comfortable doing so, since the boat moved like crazy, while the drone was static in the air. Don’t forget to imagine…
How the motors were killed? Were they melted their coils or was anything cracked?
When will these compact drones become less noisy? I know there are new propeller designs being researched to be much less like a swarm of bees is flying around near you, but don't know how far off they are to retail commercialization. It just makes it hard to stomach flying a drone in a pristine environment knowing you are disturbing all human and non-human animals nearby.
Few deer I saw did not seem to care at all about the drone. Neither have raccoons, beavers, squirrels, chipmunks and birds.