god for those who cant afford a chopper

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teatrea
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28 Sep 2010 7:51pm


Sick of straining your arm to get that all-important above the crowd video angle? Here's a solution that will give you a true birds-eye view. Due to hit the market at the end of the year, FlyingLift is a remote controlled quadrocopter which can carry a conventional video camera of up too 500 grams in weight while beaming images back to the ground in real-time. The system consists of an electrically powered carbon fiber chopper, a backpack-mounted receiver unit, a hand-held controller and a set of video glasses which deliver what the camera sees to one eye while leaving the other eye free to follow the quadrocopter in flight. Read More
PTWoody
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28 Sep 2010 9:34pm
Read more? Where's the read more? Please don't make me google it.
milko
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29 Sep 2010 2:34am
It has been done Remember this
DavidJohn
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29 Sep 2010 8:44am
I don't remember it but I will now.. What a great way to film, I luv it.. Now to find a nudist beach..

DJ
CMC
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29 Sep 2010 10:02am
Nudist beach near Byron......

Hahaha. As if any of the back beaches of Broken Head have anybody with clothes on........

Flounder
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29 Sep 2010 10:19am
I've heard they're harder to learn to fly than a real helicopter. Have a look on You-Tube at all the remote helicopter crashes, as much carnage as the real thing, plus you lose your camera!
PTWoody
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29 Sep 2010 10:59am
How much fun would that be at Mambo
doggie
doggie
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29 Sep 2010 9:00am
Imagine some knob loosing control of one into a crowd of people, very messy....
MickV
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29 Sep 2010 11:07am
We had one on a job I worked on a few years ago but it had a film camera in it. The thing was big though, the rotors were about 6 feet around.
Scary as hell when it came close.
DavidJohn
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29 Sep 2010 11:46am
I've heard that these new multi rotored helli's (some have four) are much easier to fly and their performance is absolutely amazing.

Speaking of flying toys.. I thought these are pretty cool..

DJ

grumplestiltskin
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29 Sep 2010 9:55am
Just need some sort of software that makes it hover about 2-3 metres above and behind you, perhaps linked to some GPS.

PTWoody

Read more? Where's the read more? Please don't make me google it.

newatlas.com/flying-lift-camcorder-system/16477/
cranky
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29 Sep 2010 10:29am
milko said...

It has been done Remember this



I can't imagine surfing with that many people, how depressing.
Piros
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29 Sep 2010 2:20pm
They just got better check out this one and watch for the GPS test amazing.

Rob

PTWoody
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29 Sep 2010 3:07pm
doggie said...

Imagine some knob loosing control of one into a crowd of people, very messy....



I doubt that it would make too much mess. Those rotors would cut out as soon as they made contact. They'd barely break the skin. More danger of the surfer panicking and kicking his board into the crowd.
PTWoody
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29 Sep 2010 3:08pm
grumplestiltskin said...

Just need some sort of software that makes it hover about 2-3 metres above and behind you, perhaps linked to some GPS.

PTWoody

Read more? Where's the read more? Please don't make me google it.

newatlas.com/flying-lift-camcorder-system/16477/




Cheers for that
Casso
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29 Sep 2010 5:02pm
PTWoody said...

How much fun would that be at Mambo

Imagine the cool footage you would get hovering around the Bar when it's cranking and all the crew are out there!
PTWoody
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29 Sep 2010 5:43pm
Casso said...

PTWoody said...

How much fun would that be at Mambo

Imagine the cool footage you would get hovering around the Bar when it's cranking and all the crew are out there!


Cool footage bollocks... I'd use it to kamikaze dive bomb the Queenslanders every time they were about to catch a wave.
dudelatitude
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29 Sep 2010 8:17pm
CMC said...

Nudist beach near Byron......

Hahaha. As if any of the back beaches of Broken Head have anybody with clothes on........




That's Broken Head, snapped a paddle there a few weeks back
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