I've done a FPV flight with my quadcopter, controlling it from a car, during 2,5km. It was a great experience! At 3:45 the quad reached more than 60km/h (~40mph)
WARNING: this video was done after testing the quadcopter structure, crash resistance, vibration, aerodynamics, propellers resistance, wires connections, radio range in the worst conditions, radio failsafe, altitude hold and return to home testing, tuning of PID flight controllers, battery redundancy, calculating the flight time and many other tests, besides attaching a parachute system to the quadcopter and performing the flight with little traffic. In the worst case, the quadcopter would land using the parachute.
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Keep up the great work!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
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You pass near a microwave communications tower which knocks out your radio links for a moment. Before you can react your aircraft crashes into a poor pedestrian. By freak chance one of the props slices their jugular. In the resulting panic they wander onto the road clutching their next as it spurts blood. Meanwhile in the ground car, everyone is looking up at the sky (rather than the road) looking for it returning to home. Thud, you collide with the already bleeding pedestrian. They bounce off the windscreen leaving a huge smear of blood and are thrown into the path of a bus coming from behind. The bus swerves to miss the now deceased pedestrian and collides with your car tearing the fuel tank, side doors and two arms off in the process. The quad gets squashed by the bus and the lipo battery instantly ignites from the 5 tons of pressure. Seconds later the ethanol fuel from your car light and your car is engulfed in a ball of flame. You and your driver burn to death.
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Wait, there is a happy ending.
The police investigation fails to recognise that the charred remains of the quad are not part of the car wreckage. It turns out no one else witnessed the quad strike the pedestrian. Since everyone else involved is dead, the FPV community is safe.
The pedestrian turned out to be a serial killer, and a nation wide investigation was started on the safety of ethanol fuel.
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did you press this button?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316AzLYfAzw
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