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2 HN users recommended this between 2013 and 2014, in 2 comments.
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2 HN users recommended this between 2013 and 2014, in 2 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
got mine off Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Parrot-AR-Drone-Quadricopter-Controlle...
Here's a picture of my coworkers inside the office that I flew up to scope out -- http://i.imgur.com/sSpxQAL.jpg
This. Exactly this is why it's significant.
Even a small piston powered Robin helo is around $500 to operate per hour[1], and the smallest turbine powered ones are going to be around that figure just for the fuel: ~500 lb/h fuel consumption [2][3], JetA at > $6 / gallon [4].
So for one hour helo ops, you can purchase 2-3 parrot drones [5].
[1] http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2013/09/12/why-i-charge-545hou...
[2] http://www.turbokart.com/about_arrius.htm
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocopter_Colibri
[4] http://www2.jetaviation.com/index.php/jet/bedford/fuel
[5] http://www.amazon.com/Parrot-AR-Drone-Quadricopter-Controlle...