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Posted by trappy on November 21, 2011 at 5:30pm

I know I'm probably going to get some heat for posting this, but some of you may enjoy a little collage of a "day in the life of a BlackSheep" nonetheless

If it helps, all approvals necessary were obtained, an army of ground helpers were available, as well as constant communication with the heliport tower to stay in the loop about incoming traffic.

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  • steve November 23, 2011 at 2:26pm

    The sun will not run out of hydrogen :D

     

    And Trappy, congrats again on some great flying and look for my order soon :)

  • Ellison Chan November 23, 2011 at 1:44pm

    I don't see any danger in this.  Almost little or no people on the ground,and not really flying in any kind of air or land traffic.  The only danger is that of running into a building or losing signal inside the tunnel. But I suspect that it's farther away than it looks.  Good bit of flying.

  • David M Eno November 23, 2011 at 12:15pm

    How long is it before we here about RC paparazzi spying on celebrities backyards on Hollywood ?

  • Simon Salykov November 23, 2011 at 2:30am

    @Hai Tran, I don't really think the guy lolled that much in a hospital. As long as trappy is the only one flying at the ground level, yes, average american cyclist has slim chances of being hit by his foamie. And average australian cyclist can be considered 100% safe. But if this gets trendy, statistics would change.

     

    You are trying to make a point that life is a risky business anyway, which I fully agree with. Ultimately the sun will run out of hydrogen, extend in size and will swallow the Earth. So we all are going to die one day, that's inevitable. But is this really a reason to accelerate the process? I thought we as a society are in a business of increasing public safety, not compromising that.

  • Simon Salykov November 23, 2011 at 12:51am

    @trappy

    Couple of examples how you can do considerable damage with a foamie. You can hit a cyclist on a road, who would lose control because of that and fall. Or you can hit a baby in a stroller who isn't yet aware of the fact he needs to stay clear of RC thingies. Even foamie props are enough to injury baby. In fact, you don't even need a direct impact to cause a damage: you can frighten, say, a lorry driver who isn't expecting your foamie to fly directly into his windscreen. And then he will do the damage.

     

    @Hai Tran

    Disconnect Motors During Setup!!!!! (WARNING: GRAPHIC!) - here's a recent blog post here showing what potentially stable hovering ArduCopter is capable of doing. Obviously that's much better then A320 free falling from 30000 feet, but still sounds like quite a bit of damage to me. At the very least I wouldn't want this to happen to me or my relatives because of someone enjoying non-aerobatic flying.

  • Héctor García de Marina November 22, 2011 at 11:31pm

    @John

     

    Thanks for the info, I didn't know it. Actually here in Europe is how Hai Tran states. Any RC model can not be closer more than 30m to any civilian structure, and if it is a show or demonstration, "national guard" etc have to be present

  • trappy November 22, 2011 at 4:50pm

    Hai Tran, in a nutshell, they don't as far as I know.

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    Hai Tran November 22, 2011 at 3:54pm
    @trappy, just to clear that I don't have any concerns over your flight.

    Does the US not have similar civil avivition laws like Australia that prohibit model aircraft flight less that 30m from a person, vehicle, vessel, structure?

    I think those laws need to be changed. I can't see how you are going to injure anyone if you foamy hits a building or car.
  • trappy November 22, 2011 at 3:00pm

    I think we seem to have established that flying a foamie is not the same as flying a full scale warbird. cool, we're on the right track :)

  • Jack Crossfire November 22, 2011 at 1:18pm

    Comment bait successful.

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