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Re:Amazon Unveils Futuristic Helicopter-Plane Hybrid Drone f... by gist on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:27PM (#20107613)
> I have been playing with radio controlled aircraft for most of my life

RC Helis 60 Size Gas back in the old days. You had to manually control everything. You had to built it from scratch. [1] The ones they have now are so simple and easy they are no fun at all. I wonder if you feel the same way?

I am still not getting how this is possible given weather conditions and variability.

[1] Electric? Only thing like that I ever saw was at the hobby shop (remember those) and it had a power cord attached and was plugged into an extension cord and being tested out back.

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Re:Amazon Unveils Futuristic Helicopter-Plane Hybrid Drone f... by castis on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:45PM (#20107828)
> You had to build it from scratch

Thats exactly what I'm trying to do here (sort of), I'm like 2 years in on the project and I've only just begun to actually test the thing. https://github.com/castis/currant

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