On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 18:55:34 -0500, "RogerN" wrote:


"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:10:15 -0500, "David R.Birch"
wrote:

Leon Fisk wrote:
On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:17:25 -0400, Wes
wrote:

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When I get closer to pulling the trigger on the helo, I'll re-read your
comments you made
last winter. I really want a helo. The package I'd carry would be a
camera. I am not
into the coaxial large scale air hog equivalents. I want it to have all
the functions of a
real helo.

Don't know if such a thing is available or not, but I would
look for a small "blimp" type craft that could be remote
controlled.

You would spend a lot less time concentrating on flying it,
have a much smoother platform (if it isn't too windy) and it
should be a lot more forgiving crash wise.

Roger probably knows if there is anything like this that us
normal folks could afford in the blimp line.

Probably wouldn't be as much fun to fly though


I saw an RC blimp last fall at a UWM basketball game, about 12 ft
long. I think even a mild breeze would have it quickly in the next county.

I found lots of google hits with RC, blimp.

http://www.rcblimp.com/

David


Wayyyyyy Cool!!

"Powered by gas or electric engines depending upon the size, the outdoor
Remote Control Nylon Blimp can operate in winds from 10 to 15 mph with
full 360 degree vectoring allowing for complete reverse flight. The
gondola is either polystyrene or fiberglass, depending on the size of
the blimp. The vector arm (movable arm which holds and rotates the
motors) rotates 360 degrees and is made of FAA-approved T-6 aircraft
aluminum, as are the motor mounts. This design facilitates infinite
hovering control as well as enabling the airship to reverse if needed."


Humm...I wonder how much "payload" one of those babies would carry?
Video and high explosives......just pondering for the sake of the
discussion. Shrug....

Gunner
"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in
liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked
passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us
today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement,
reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit
the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal
State Fresno

I always thought a great terrorist weapon (I shouldn't be giving them any
ideas here) would be a GPS guided model with some kind of chemical or
biological weapon. Set to fly over any outdoor event and release payload.
Model could be launched from miles away and return to be reloaded.

RogerN

Hold that thought....the time is approaching where such mischief may
actually occur.....G

Hypothetically speaking of course!

Gunner

"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in
liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked
passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us
today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement,
reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit
the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno