Recent content by MikeK

"If thine eye offends thee . . ." The majority of messages in this forum are friendly and intelligently composed. But in keeping with the principle of free speech and the diversity of human nature a few messages which some or all of us might find offensive is inevitable. My advice is to just...

Whether they like it or not is not the issue. The issue is whether the drone is flying at a lawfully allowable height or not. If it is, they have no complaint. Those SHARK people didn't waste the cops' time. The cops wasted their own time in a demonstratedly stupid manner. There were five...

Thank you. I fully agree with everything you've said here.

Oops! I should have looked before posting. No harm done.

These animal rights activists used a drone to obtain an aerial view of a "farm" in New York State where puppies and other animals are bred for laboratory research purposes. The private security staff at the "farm" called upon the state and local police to accost and "investigate" the drone...

Thanks for the link. I'm glad Intel has taken this step because the rising tide will raise all boats as far as this technology is concerned. Eventually all drone hobbyists will benefit from this step. The chips Intel has developed, and will develop, will one day end up in affordable hobby-drones.

I agree.

But Germany happens to be considerably advanced in terms of solar energy. They are moving in the right direction, so it's likely they will be easily capable of abandoning fossil fuels by 2030. Their oil industry evidently does not hold their government by the short hairs.

I bought my first computer (a Radio Shack TRS-80) in 1981. Along with a 9-pin dot-matrix printer the cost was $3,600. The Acer desktop along with the Brother laser printer I bought this year cost a grand total of $450. Not only is the price difference striking, so is the advancement in...

Well said -- and right on.

D.C., What's the big hurry? You're letting impatience get to you. The rational thing to do is cancel your order, get your money back and WAIT to see what's happening with this new drone, because this is not the time to buy one. It's too soon and the constant delay is an indication something...

Wow! I am impressed. And I've already decided that after hanging back about 3 - 4 months to digest feedback, which I am hoping will be positive, I will buy one. Probably around September. Yuneec; my compliments on a beautiful design. That is quite a handsome drone.

I had seen a few YouTube videos of this little quad and today I saw one in action. It is the JXD 509 and it is identical to the Q500 -- except four or five times smaller. From what I could tell it flies pretty good for a toy-grade quad but doesn't seem to have any really sophisticated features...

Correct prop tightness seems to be a rather widespread problem, involving either too much tightening or not enough. I'm not a mechanic but when I was in the military I recall seeing a mechanic use what I believe is called a torque wrench to tighten bolts that secured parts of a mobile weapon...

Thanks for the tips. You're a good fellow, FlashCrash -- and you seem like a lot of fun!