Looks like the folks at HobbyKing has fully embraced the Multicopter revolution. To that end, they've created a contest for 2012, the goal of which is to lift our favourite beverages, BEER! They don't say whether the beer cans need to be full or empty. I think the goal is to lift as much weight as possible. So there may be the obvious incentive of lifting many empty beer cans, versus smaller number sadly full cans.
Link to contest is here.
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Typical can is 355ml, and beer is denser than water, so one can will weigh more than 355grams. My guess is that the 3DR frame will lift a can barely. However, if you plan to win, you're probably going to have to build a Y6 or Hex at least.
Well, hopefully there will be some Arducopter entries. I'm sure the KK board they sell won't be able to do this stunt, unless the pilot is very good.
Why would it be a scam? Almost everyone on this forum has a Turnigy or Nanotech battery already, Just shoot some video of it flying a can of beer and send it in. What can you loose?
Brilliant!!!
Looked like the guy flying it is Russian. I though they were in Europe somewhere, with the Heinekin beer can.
Now we can see all the videos with white guys are actually shot in Hong Kong with expatriots.