Good story GT38 and your friend was indeed a lucky man! A good friend of mine years back had to eject out of a AV-8B at night time, inverted and only 1000' AGL. He said the only thing he remembers was pulling the handle and then waking up on the ground and seeing the fireball that signified...
Doubt it. 2111 is a basic armorer and the 2112 is actually a school trained gunsmith. There is some method to the madness though because a 03xx will be in the infantry field, 04xx will be logistics, 75xx will be a pilot, etc etc etc.
I agree but this thing is definitely taking the RC world to a completely new level and as Chip pointed out a slight increase in speed and this thing could even be more amazing. It actually makes some of the UAVs I saw in the military look second rate. Unfortunately like all technology once you...
I think weapon it could become. No longer do you need to be a first rate power to have potential cheap and easy to use UAVs. Combine this with Google earth and well you get the idea. I also think this could have some issues with the FAA. I can't imagine how a mid-air with that thing would go...
Here's one on EBay right now with 8 miles on it for 59.9K.
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