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Actually they "haven't determined" because there's still a chance to shut this crap down at the city council level.Originally Posted by theGinsue
lazy cops are lazy.
someone should go to those locations and time the lights.
they already check speed on the interstate by aircraft, and patrol the skies with helicopters, how much time until the CSPD is flying drones?
It'll happen as soon as someone realizes how many flashbangs for the swat team they can afford by firing all the pilots.
Already happening in some states my friend.
AFAIK, drones still need pilots- they're just not IN the aircraft..
Wonder how long before terrorists hack the drones & fly them into buildings?
Well, how big of a drone do you need to hold a radar camera?
"There are no finger prints under water."
Not big at all...
Most of the telescoping/photography type equipment we use for mapping "could" fit on a large RC airplane.
I guess crashing them into a building would be kinda anti-climactic then... for some reason, I was picturing something with at least a 8-10' wingspan.. but as long as it qualifies as ultralight, don't need a license..
get some high-school kids, as long as you have an x-box interface...
A kid ran a Cessna into a building in Tampa after 9/11. Minimal damage, took out a corner office and nothing else.I guess crashing them into a building would be kinda anti-climactic then... for some reason, I was picturing something with at least a 8-10' wingspan.. but as long as it qualifies as ultralight, don't need a license..
get some high-school kids, as long as you have an x-box interface...
For speed measurements from the air they use lines painted on the road and clock your time between them. Radar of the directional gun type wouldn't give you the speed of a car on the ground, but a very large phased array radar could -- the kind you see on JSTAR. Cameras and a stopwatch are much easier.
http://diydrones.com I'm thinking about doing this. I have an R/C airplane, but haven't flown it in a while. Having a computer onboard that I can give control to would be neat. So are those live video return systems... but you need a HAM license to get very far with it. Legally you can't encrypt ham comms, but the military hasn't seen a need to encrypt it's own drone feeds either. I know someone here in Pueblo was building up a drone to use in Search and Recovery with the local sheriff's office.
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Hoosier, funny you should mention that.
I have a friend (just a guy I know really, not much of a "friendship") who has a modifed RC plane that he's hooked up to a computer and uses a joystick to fly (instead of the two tab remotes). He was also succesful in hooking up a Lego Erector set thingamabob to it to where it'll drop "bombs" (small cherrypopper things) from it's belly and even fire BB's from some front cannons..... it's pretty impressive and cost less than $1K for everything.
I've wanted to go buy some RC cars for a while and just have him do bombing raids while I'm on the run. I think it'd be fun... maybe get like a RC truck and put some sort of mild explosive of something in it....
Another reason(s) not to come into the Springs.
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