20 sats \ 13 replies \ @rebel_nomad 15 Oct \ on: Spy Drones Swarmed Langley Air Base, Pentagon Unable To Counter Threat conspiracy
I've worked with drones & regulations, it was a great project until fucking Murdoch of all demons bought the company we were doing this consultancy work for...
That will soon be 8 years ago now, and even back then I could have been very dangerous if I wanted!
Hell, I've been wondering why RC models haven't been used for very nefarious purposes since back in the mid eighties, even back then you could do more or less the same as now...
Now we're at the point where its gonna be a real thing, expect most countries & actors to catch up within years!
That is strange, in the mid-'70s, I was flying RC airplanes in the local area. I really enjoyed making them, too. The only problem, was when you used shrinking plastic to cover the plane, if you crashed, you had a really neat bag of puzzle pieces to put back together.
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We've got that in common too, then!
Its easy to build in balsa with some hardwood added, I might do a lightweight PC case soon, tired of traveling with laptops that break constantly, so why not ship the compact Dell I've got in the checked in luggage? ;-)
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Always that first flight was full or excitement. Did I build everything correctly and straight? I was lucky in that.
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What was real hard with the drone project was controlling them with all the gyros off haha...
Managed to at least bring them down in a controlled way after wrecking & patching them up a number of times, and brought that into the flight manual.
Dealing with the national agency for aviation regulations actually was great, and so far the only bureaucratic process ever that made sense to me haha!
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I never flew helicopters or "drones". I only flew fixed wing aircraft. I had biplanes, pylon racer types an one, count it, one flat winged starter .25 aircraft.
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Me neither, until a year or two before that project. Had to look into drones since I was running both a B2B photography & later video production company, and also a shared studio space.
It was fun, and almost made it into the whole field, but organizational treachery and BS kinda strangled it in the end...
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Yes, the BS has a large tendency to strangle good things in the crib.
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Managing that will for sure be something I'll focus on coaching for those who'll pay some sats for my paywall ;-)