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http://twitter.com/es_engadget/status/1147839713]]>Jan 26th 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x80raf_dmo-en-vol-lp960_tech for video and http://www.lehmannaviation.com/ for the site.]]>Jan 26th 2009 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/Jan 26th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/Jan 26th 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/available, I wonder why news agencies don't get some like this or
others and use them to capture footage of war zones, if the parties
don't allow the press to enter the region. For the Gaza Strip for
example it should even be possible to control them via laser if there
are radio jammers, or just program them for an automate sightseeing
flight.]]>Jan 26th 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/You think they want to try and keep track of all the news source drones in the air? Imagine what would happen if someone mistook a news drone for an armed enemy drone and 28 people die as a result. Not cool. Or vice versa, a news drone is taken out, you know someone will come looking for who done it. And at min 17k...(I would imagine ones for professional use would cost a bit more) you bet they'd be pissed off, and looking for amends. ]]>Jan 26th 2009 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/Jan 26th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/Jan 26th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/Jan 26th 2009 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/Jan 26th 2009 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/
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/not Pete King-R New York, NY]]>Jan 26th 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/
Many of these people fly their planes out of visual range and up to 7k feet and higher into the clouds, miles away from their base station with full video. Others have autopilot, GPS, and HUD's for all the info you could need from the plane. And again this is all for under $2k.

The sad part is that this company may actually sell this to someone who doesn't know any better and make a WHOLE lot of money for nothing.

Example: http://www.vimeo.com/2881052

If the link doesn't work just Search Youtube or Vimeo for "FPV Headtrack" ]]>Jan 26th 2009 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=983908

First Person View is basically flying the plane using video downlinked to a goggles as Thameth stated. Although one of my current FPV planes has a on screen display with a basic auto pilot, it is limited and used as a return to base feature in case the RC link is lost. I also use a headtracker on this aircraft and it is a good sight seeing plane.

I'm also in to UAVs as well and although somewhat different than pure FPV, it is equally as fun. Basically general RC gear is limited to about 1 mile, there is special RC gear that can get 20+ miles but my approach to longer range flight was to make a UAV. The autopilot I am using is called paparazzi and is open source:

http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Main_Page

This plane has a 20+ mile downlink that I can use to guide the plane as well as a video feed that can transmit up to 10 miles. This way the plane flies its self and is very stable with the autopilot and I can use the goggles to sight see without having to worry about flying the plane or getting lost. If there is something I want to look at or video, I tell the autopilot to circle (or fly a figure 8) around the point with a single click on the laptop.

Apart from being fun, this is very useful technology, it is useful for looking for bush fires, property inspection on large farms and not too expensive, a complete plane with Autopilot, video downlink and airframe (with servos, motor, batteries and speed controller) can be done for under US$1000, all you need to add is time and a laptop. Amatuer UAVs have a bit of a steep learning curve.


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]]>Jan 27th 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/lp960-uav-flies-around-shoots-high-def-photography-of-its-journ/http://www.draganfly.com/
Moocho-cheaper too. They also have higher-priced pro models.

Matt
who would really like any one of these: http://www.rctoys.com/rc-products-catalog/RC-HELICOPTERS-DRAGANFLYER-COMPARE-ALL.html]]>Jan 27th 2009 11:33AM