About

Gender

Male


About Me:

Electrician and inventor, love designing new devices!


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Have entered a competition in my home country to design a UAV for the film industry. Have come up with some very out there concepts.


Hometown:

Tokoroa


Activity Feed

Chris Ellis commented on Charles Blouin's blog post Transport Canada to investigate ''Roman Candle Attack''
"Not when we have guys like this Damian .... hahahahaha"
May 24, 2015
Chris Ellis commented on Charles Blouin's blog post Transport Canada to investigate ''Roman Candle Attack''
"Ok so we have a few idiots that are only going to result in self made pain. Since when does the government have the right to step in and dictate to people. They are in a remote area, no one around, no one else to hurt! The only reason the government…"
May 23, 2015
Chris Ellis commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Drones banned on Arctic and Antarctic cruises
"As UAV get smaller, lighter and fly longer, it makes sense to manage this technology, you can't just ban it without understanding where it can fit into the tourist experience. There's no debating the fact that UAV's take awesome photo's and that…"
May 16, 2015
Chris Ellis commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Patent application for Amazon's drone mothership
"I think the only real defence will be their flying altitude, i must be high enough to be out of range but not so high as to interfere with planes and helicopters? .... it's the old saying, out of sight, out of mind ...."
May 9, 2015
Chris Ellis commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Patent application for Amazon's drone mothership
"Well that will make, hijacking, hacking or shooting down drones a profitable business! ... Who needs Santa when presents are flying over your roof! ..... "
May 9, 2015
Chris Ellis commented on John Dennings's blog post 4 hour fuel cell powered quad
"here's an easy refill option guys .....
http://www.horizonfuelcell.com/#!minipak/c156u
Hydrogen power is becoming more realistic as fuel source! .... about time!"
May 9, 2015
Chris Ellis commented on Ron Joly's blog post DIY Giant Octocopter Build designed for Magnetometer work in the Mineral Exploration Industry
" Hey Ron, you could use mu-metal for shielding around your motors, mu-metal was designed to obsorb magnetic fields. Also look to carbon fibre for your skin / framing, with 8 motors most of your weight will be in LiPol batteries and motors. Hope this…"
May 4, 2015