Says that roadside cleaning workers found a abandoned hexa-copter near a penitentiary (in Presidente Venceslau, São Paulo state, Brazil), loaded with 3 cell phones with chargers and 3 saw blades (amateurs!). Probably was an attempt to deliver the cell phones to inmates (cell phones are very forbidden in Brazilian penitentiaries). Previous attempts involved pigeons with small backpacks, bows, arrows, and more.
No good news. I can already hear our precious politicians discoursing against hexacopters (and pigeons, and bows, and arrows,...).
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Some guy made a smart move and camouflaged his Quad as a cat :)
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You guys joke, but may the Montry Python sketch would have been reality, if it were a Maximum Security facility. There's always fresh meat to sacrifice.
Chris... (LOL) Here's the clip:
Re: why they left it. One might speculate from the photo that they crashed. One of the motor mounts looks broken. From there, it is not a stretch to imagine that the operator did not feel he could approach it without getting caught, or that someone else got to it before he did.
@Lefebvre... it depends, if you shot it from a lower level --on a quasi vertical angle-- it would diminish the speed and fall gently on the roof, for example.
Something just like this:
I can't understand how that arrow scheme would ever work. I'd think the phones would be destroyed on impact?
Is this the DIY Drones meme? "somebody did xxx with a UAV, our hobby is doomed"
Oh man... that's just starting. Not good for the hobby.
My cartoon blown mind can't avoid imagining a resident with a cell phone stuck on his chest. :P
But even sportive bow and arrows were used on previous attempts. (GSM/GPRS based "Unmanned Arrow Vehicle"... LOL)
might have been a night flight and they lost orientation
Like a year or two ago I was wondering how many drones are flying across Mexico/US border with different cargo... Practically invisible by radars, fully automatic with GPS onboard. Perfect carriers without a trace who started it. I guess the "right guys" needs a system to track them down.
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