R/C attack hellicopter

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
you could shoot it down with a handgun I bet

Yeah, if the pilot let it hover in one place so you could hit it. No way could anyone hit that thing with a handgun while he's jinking it around like in that video. It would be pure luck.

 

[OverVolt]

500kbytes/sec nice server

 

[gabemcg]

Originally posted by: Buck_Naked

Originally posted by: gabemcg
after showing this video to my dad, he posed the question:

What if one of these R/C helicopters were fitted a video camera and some sort of weapon (explosive, projectile, ect.) and used by terrorists to attack a person of great importance (self censorship for fear of big brother)? If the operator was as skilled as the dude in the video, I don't see any way the secret service would be able to protect him.

What do you think?

*note* I obviously do not condone this type of behavior, if anything. it could be used as a warning.

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Shoot it down?
What do you think they use radio frequency jamming equipment for?

Most valid counter-point I've heard yet. If anything would stop it, I think radio jamming equip would

 

[OverVolt]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt

Originally posted by: meltdown75
That is one of the coolest fvcking things i have ever seen!! I could care less about it being used for military purposes, I just wanna watch more! :shocked:

jesus me too!

how does it fly upside down?

it had two blades, my guess is one spun one way, one spun the other. speed up one and slow down the other to reverse the direction of the thrust? my guess.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: notfred
Here's a better (yet more expensive) idea. This idea requires at least two people, and probably at least $50,000, but I think it'd have a better chance of working.

You start by building a single-seat aircraft. You can base it on one of the commercially available kitplanes out there. You build it with a quiet engine, paint it light gray or blue - something that blends into the sky easily, and generally try to make it inconspicuous, but without making it look like you're trying to camoflague it. You have to make one change to the design of the plane though - you add a bomb bay to it, big enough to drop something about 3 feet wide and 3 or 4 feet long.

The object that you're dropping is essentially a radio controlled glider. It's designed to go a lot faster with a lot lower glide ratio than most gliders. There are a couple cool things about the glider: it's silent, you can make the wings (which I'm guessing would be fairly stubby) transparent - it'd be difficult to see.

Say you design this glider to maintain 100mph or so, and a glide ratio of about 1:1. A typical R/C glider should have at least a 10:1 glide ratio, meaning that for every foot of altitude it loses, it covers 10 feet of distance. Our 1:1 glide ratio glider basically falls at a 45 degree angle. This means that if you drop it at 10,000 feet, you only have to be within two miles (horizontally) of your target. I lived near a small airport for a long time, and a small airplane like that isn't particularly noticeable from two miles away.

Anyway, your glider weighs about 25 pounds or so, most of which is explosives rigged to detonate when the thing experiences a massive shock (or when the pilot presses the "detonate" button). Other than that, it's got a battery, a radio, and a camera in the nose. Person 1 flies the plane, and person 2 watches the video feed from the camera in the nose of the glider, using that to control it. Now, this glider is about 3 feet long, and moving at about 100mph, and it's silent. By the time anyone saw the thing, assuming they were looking right at it as it came into view, They probably wouldn't have more than 5 seconds before it detonated. Even better, it's coming in from a 45 degree angle, making it well above the typical field of view for someone that's primarily concerned with someone attacking from the ground.

You've basically built a miniature smart bomb, and I think that as long as the guy piloting the bomb was able to aim it correctly, it has a pretty good chance of success.

This is precisely why you'd be hard pressed to get a light aircraft within 10 miles of a presidential appearance without having an F-15 tear you a new ass.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: OverVolt

Originally posted by: hevnsnt

Originally posted by: meltdown75
That is one of the coolest fvcking things i have ever seen!! I could care less about it being used for military purposes, I just wanna watch more! :shocked:

jesus me too!

how does it fly upside down?

it had two blades, my guess is one spun one way, one spun the other. speed up one and slow down the other to reverse the direction of the thrust? my guess.

a rotor is a rotating wing with an airfoil. The rotors can swivel about their axis. Hence you can direct the lift. So when hovering upside down the rotors are rotated 180 degrees, they can twist.

Just search for ROFLcopter and it will all make sense.

 

[roguerower]

I live 20 miles away from washington dc and fly at an aeroclub about 25 miles from the capital. There is a 10 mile "no fly zone" around the white house. A cessna without a proper squawk code can make it about a mile before being sent to the ground with a missile. Unless you plan to "hide" it with radar absorbent material, theres no way it would work. sry