First known drone save.....pretty cool

[Yooper Rocketman]

Just got this on my Avweb news this morning.  The lifeguards were given the drone that very day!

Click on the option to watch it on You Tube.

Tom

 

[jkhirsch]

Really looks like a video promoting the potential use of safety drones.

[Hank]

Saw it on the news last night. Impressive!

[kris_adams]

Having been caught in undertow one time, I imagine this could be helpful.  Seemed like the drop was pretty high though

[Danb]

That's cool, hopefully the will stay out of our space.

[carusoam]

Drones vs. banner Towing planes in the same airspace on the Jersey shore...

We lose a lot of swimmers...

wait... I think I see the banner towing drones on the horizon...

I’m sure they can find a way to work together.

Best regards,

-a-

[jkhirsch]

On 1/19/2018 at 6:01 PM, carusoam said:

wait... I think I see the banner towing drones on the horizon...

Correction: Banner hovering drones

-(Drone)-...Banner...-(Drone)-  

And they will be just above the horizon too because "drones are just swell" and "just above the swell"

Who could possibly need rules for them?

Edited January 22, 2018 by jkhirsch

[N201MKTurbo]

There was an article in AOPA magazine about getting your Remote Pilots license. As soon as the FAA gets back to work I'll be a certified commercial drone pilot with more stuff written on my license. The whole thing took about 2 hours. Training, written test and license application.

Some day I'll have to fly a drone....

[Yetti]

I keep wondering why is it the government gets all the cool drones.   It seem like it would be pretty easy to build a predator drone out of foam board and hang a paramotor off the back of it.   Probably for about one AMU.   Put a nice camera on it and park it above Houston Class B.  That would be fun.

a flyable plane out of foamboard. no way you say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNSN6qet1kE

[EricJ]

17 minutes ago, Yetti said:

a flyable plane out of foamboard. no way you say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNSN6qet1kE

Anybody remember Ken Rand and the KR series of homebuilt airplanes?   Basically large model airplanes, built with the RC-airplane technology of the time in the 70s and 80s.

[Hank]

RC planes are now quick-built using plastic corrugate folded over the wing spar, and rolled into fuselage tubes. Some use wiffle bats for pre-made fuselages . . . Tail feathers can be sheet corrugate scored on one side to allow movement . . . Foam has been extensively used as a construction material since the early 90s, just add wooden wing spars and fiberglass or carbon fiber strips for selected strengthening.

--signed, Life Member, Academy of Model Aeronautics

[Yooper Rocketman]

This is scary!

 

[peevee]

3 hours ago, Hank said:

RC planes are now quick-built using plastic corrugate folded over the wing spar, and rolled into fuselage tubes. Some use wiffle bats for pre-made fuselages . . . Tail feathers can be sheet corrugate scored on one side to allow movement . . . Foam has been extensively used as a construction material since the early 90s, just add wooden wing spars and fiberglass or carbon fiber strips for selected strengthening.

--signed, Life Member, Academy of Model Aeronautics

That's no fun, I like the old ways of gluing your fingers together with ca glue while trying to keep everything square on a sheet of drywall on a template with push pins.

[Hank]

15 minutes ago, peevee said:

That's no fun, I like the old ways of gluing your fingers together with ca glue while trying to keep everything square on a sheet of drywall on a template with push pins.

That's not old fashioned! Try putting glue on the sticks, then pinning them to an old bullletin board and letting the runny, smelly glue dry overnight . . .

[peevee]

44 minutes ago, bluehighwayflyer said:

Amen!  Aerogloss dope, anyone? 

I've done rice paper and dope on a control line plane before.