Gotham 7.5K: A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC

Post by davidw » Tue, Jan 13, 2015, 9:04 AM UTC

PanMan wrote: post #58

davidw wrote: post #26

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Idle curiosity: I wonder how high a hobbyist unit could fly straight up before running out of batteries.

I was wondering about that as well. According to the manufacturer, the DJI Phantom[1] (a common consumer drone) has a max vertical speed of 6 m/s. So in 10 minutes (battery lasts about 20, 10 up, 10 down), you could reach 3600m. Higher than these pics were taken! (you remote probably won't reach that...) Not sure if the max speed is up or down... [1]: http://www.dji.com/product/phantom/feature

Post by davedx » Tue, Jan 13, 2015, 11:01 AM UTC

HCIdivision17 wrote: post #22

The images truly are breathtaking. His note about the streets seeming like neurons is interesting, but I hope I'm not the only person who immediately thought the shots resembled an exaggerated extruded version of a chip's layered layout. (Here's sort of a small version: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Cell-Proc... ) It's a bit odd: the scale of the city is not quite large enough to look like a mode…

Post by sokoloff » Tue, Jan 13, 2015, 11:38 AM UTC

sokoloff wrote: post #69

larrys wrote: post #67

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Total envy that you (and the parent commenter) actually get to do this type of thing. (Meaning fly private planes or helis).

Shoot me an email (in my profile)

Post by sokoloff » Tue, Jan 13, 2015, 11:42 AM UTC

Post by iwince » Tue, Jan 13, 2015, 2:50 PM UTC

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #92

iwince wrote: post #85

Truly amazing! I wonder what would happen to a large city like that if in a blackout for 3 days.

No need to wonder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977