[OSM-talk] DraganFly RC helicopters

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Stefan de Cronin wrote
> Erik Lundin schreef:
>   
>> I know RC helicopters as potential aerial photo source has been 
>> discussed before, but today I read about some helicopter from DraganFly 
>> and didn't find anything about them on the lists. They seem to be very 
>> interesting for our purposes.
>>
>> http://www.draganfly.com/
>>     
> They are far to expensive. Currently we (openstreetphoto) are looking at
> big Electroglyders. Shortly we will have some snapshots from a smaller
> one. The one that is in the progres to be build will have a spawn of
> around 3 meters and could potentially carry a digital reflex camera.
>
> If you want to go Quadcopter I strongly suggest to go for a real open
> source project. Because you will not realise how much it will annoy you
> if you have to change something but can't do it because the platform is
> closed.
>   
This won't happen if you develop your own one ;)

Draganfly is a little bit expensive (as it is designed commercially for
professional users), there are cheaper microcopter projects.

regards