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A short "Troy Grove Job" runs by my Chroma quadcopter while enroute to Troy Grove, Illinois.
Video: youtu.be/tVktMgYhrog
A quadcopter view of a Kansas City Southern SD70ACe "Belle" leading a Canadian Pacific 472 train east of Genoa, Illinois.
Video: youtu.be/CrsVF8wLk84
I often have to shoot these aerial views from the side of the tracks opposite the sun due to obstructions such as trees or power lines. Or, in this case, to also avoid flying over a homeowner's yard.
Flew the drone over the neighborhood this morning. Skies were ominous and dramatic. Captured a video clip and several images from the flight.
Over our neighborhood
Knoxville, Tennessee
Saturday, March 8th, 2025
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The starship hangars of Classic Space were massive. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space-ship hangars.* The engineers used bicycles, electric buggies and all sorts of other transport to travel about but they wanted faster speeds.
Eventually they modified a small maintenance quadcopter to carry a human pilot. Armoured trousers were a necessary precaution when flying it.
Sadly management decreed that this vehicle was less safe than Colin Furze's belt of spinning knives and banned its use after just a few months.
*Thank you Douglas Adams!
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This would have been the first hot day we have since January 2013. It was a perfect day to go out and enjoy what Australia had to offer. It was a warm (with little wind) day. We were out from about 11AM visiting almost all of the attractions along The Great Ocean Road. 12 Apostles Coastal Reserve being out last stop and the sun was setting fast. It was also a fantastic golden/red sunset.
Back story, I almost didn't get to show any of these photos as I did lost my gopro hero 3 momentarily as we were exploring the surrounding sites and when I was back at the car, I did not see my Gopro on the quad! We had to backtrack for about 15min to find just sitting there in the bush...phew'
This was taken with Dji Phantom Quadcopter and GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition. 4 image stitched with Photoshop.
Speaking of quadcopters, here's one of my favorite photos from London at this famous street where seven roads come together. I flew this one with my friend Stu. I was using the HUGE Inspire drone… it's really much too massive and ungainly! After I got it set up, I had to go through this very time-consuming IMU calibration… thought it would never end… but I finally got it up in the air to take this photo!
-Trey Ratcliff
Click here to read the rest of this entry at the Stuck in Customs blog.
I bought a DJI Phantom 3 Professional quadcopter, and this is a still image from the 12 MP on-board camera. I used HDR mode for this. I'm not entirely happy -- there's some slight chromatic aberration on the left, and at 100% resolution you can see hundreds of hot pixels, especially in the sky. This was shot with the f/2.8 lens wide open, ISO 100. If I can figure out how to stop down the lens, that should help with the CA. I'm not sure what to do about the white pixels. I could shoot a black frame and partially subtract it out; this would turn the hot pixels into "gray" pixels, which might be less obtrusive.
My first attempts at video don't look so good. I've seen some really good video taken with this model, so I hope my shooting and post-processing technique will improve.
This was taken about 80 feet above my front yard.
A Represa Billings é um dos maiores e mais importantes reservatórios de água da Região Metropolitana de São Paulo. A oeste, faz limite com a bacia hidrográfica da Guarapiranga e, ao sul, com a serra do Mar. Seus principais rios e córregos formadores são o Rio Grande ou Jurubatuba, Ribeirão Pires, Rio Pequeno, Rio Pedra Branca, Rio Taquacetuba, Ribeirão Bororé, Ribeirão Cocaia, Ribeirão Guacuri, Córrego Grota Funda e Córrego Alvarenga.
Por volta de 1910, o engenheiro Walter Charnley escolheu na Serra do Mar as escarpas de 640 m do Itapanhaú, que deságua em Bertioga, como local de um grande projeto de geração de energia. Em 1923, o engenheiro americano Asa White Kenney Billings preferiu que fosse represado o Rio Grande ou Jurubatuba e desviasse as águas através de um canal chamado Summit Control para o Córrego das Pedras, com curso serra abaixo.
A represa foi idealizada em 27 de março de 1925 pelo engenheiro Billings, empregado da extinta concessionária de energia elétrica Light, daí o nome. Inicialmente, a represa tinha o objetivo de armazenar água para gerar energia elétrica para a usina hidrelétrica Henry Borden, na cidade de Cubatão.
Em 1925, a Light iniciou a construção do dique do Rio das Pedras. A represa foi inundada em 1927 e a Light iniciou a construção do dique do Rio Grande, em 1937. Na década de 1940 foram construídas estações elevatórias de Pedreira e Traição para aumentar a vazão de água, trazendo problemas ambientais.
O projeto foi ampliado e, em 1949, foi planejado o novo reservatório (rebatizado de Billings) que receberia todas as águas do Alto Tietê. No início dos anos de 1980, foi construído uma barragem que separa o braço do Rio Grande do corpo principal do reservatório. Desde o ano 2000, há uma nova captação em um dos braços mais ao sul, denominado Taquacetuba.
The only place that's open enough for my quadcopter is Titus Sparrow Park. There are Victorian bow fronts on the left, low-income housing in the center and a stone church partly visible on the right.
Liscloon, Donemana, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Altinaghree Castle also known as ‘Ogilby’s castle’ or ‘Liscloon House’ was built by William Ogilby around 1860. It was a very modern castle for the period, constructed entirely of Irish cut stone and surrounded by a wall of the same material. The stone was transported by horse and cart from Dungiven. When finished ‘Ogilby's Castle’ was vast and beautiful lavishly furnished and with a banquet room that was reported to be unequalled throughout Tyrone, boasting among its guests Bishops and politicians from London, Dublin and Belfast.
William's son James Ogilby was to inherit this magnificent castle and surrounding lands. He fell in love with a factory seamstress named Mary Jane Jamieson. Sadly due to Mary’s lower class upbringing he was denied permission to marry her by his father & Mother. James ignored his parents’ objections & Married Mary in 1884. Shortly afterwards he turned his back on his family and his inheritance and moved to Australia with his new wife Mary to start their new life together without family objections & ridicule. In Australia James became a famous ichthyologist at the Australian Museum.
Unfortunately after only being lived in for under 30 years ‘Ogilby’s castle’ was abandoned by the end of the century and fell into disrepair & was stripped bare of its contents. The castle has been like this ever since..... It just shows that money and material objects aren't everything as James Ogilby rightfully proved to his family, that love always comes first.
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Adding a new perspective to photography, than just what one sees from ground level through a camera lens.
Have to laugh. The EXIF data tell me the flash was fired! The damn quadcopter has no flash!
And anotherone for Junebot.
This time a real drone. This thing is actually lifesize. The original Quadcopter by Revell got no camera, but I added it for fun.
Such small Drones for only 70€. The Fuuuuutuuuure is noooooow! (whoever got that reference, ill give a digital cookie.)
Also, if you controll it, it features Oculus Rift with up to 5 Oculusses simultaniously. ('nother reference)
DB4 “Sketto” Gunship Quadcopter
Concept
My motivation behind this thing comes from the many inspiring drawings at the Concept-Ships blog, and the theme itself is an integration of actually three themes: First a foremost the evolution of the Bell H1 Huey, second is Road Warrior and then Star Wars! You may also notice a big influence of other aircraft: Bell 47 Chopper, F9C Sparrowhawk / USS Macon, F-4 Phantom, B-25, 1960’s U.S. Navy paint schemes. Its roll is in Patrol, Defensive, Support, Heavy Lift and Re-Supply. Operations are undertaken in Gas Planet Mining Colonies. No land = no landing gear. Instead it hooks off a large Mother Ship (Airship).
Fun Facts
-107 Brickarms
-1600+ Bricks
-32 Feet of Tubing
-275 DBG Minifig Hands
-Took 3 months to build.
-“Sketto” A four winged blood sucking Star Wars creature.
Construction
-Main construction is made from the tubing and large panels, any bricks used are for the engines and detailing. Lego sail cloth and string are used in the fuselage. Decal / Sticker material used throughout.
-Panels are Light BLY with both the inner and outer sides cover in large full custom decals.
-The fuselage is all tubular construction with Lego sail cloth underneath. To help hold it in place, string runs along the inside of the tubing. The rear engine heat shield is also Lego sail cloth covered in an aluminum sticker material.
-Engines can tilt forward and back 75 deg, and in and out 25 deg.
-Weapons bay hold two ADC500 500lbs “Blockbuster” (Atmospheric Depth Charges)
-Rocket pods hold 28 BR-9X 60lbs “Shrike” Short Range Heat Seeking Missile (4 Pods)
-Docking Hook can be extended. This works like the F9C Sparrowhawk / USS Macon did in 1930’s. While in the Navy I worked in the hanger for the USS Macon, as well as the Mythbusters!
Story Line
Like the Bell H-1 Huey, the Sketto was designed as a support aircraft that later was modified into a bad ass gunship! However the Sketto as a civilian aircraft and didn’t have the military money to back its transformation into a gunship, instead what happen was a collaboration between the Aeten Mining Colonies and the Lantillies Shipyard. It was however the mining colonies necessity to retrofit there DB4’s into gunships that started it all. That’s where the Road Warrior look comes into play. The Star Wars theme comes in with the look and feel of the Minifigs and the interplanetary mining operation.
The Aeten II Mining Company specializes in many different types of mineral and gas extraction. They’re particular good at extracting the rare HH3 or (Heavy Hydrogen 3). HH3 is found in the lower levels of some gas planets. Very specialize equipment is designed to hover just above these lower gas levels. Here the HH3 is pumped up throw long hoses into storage tanks onboard the large Aeten Tankers. However this isn’t without it challenges do to its value. Local disputes often arise over whom has the rights to these gas planets, as well as the threat of pirates raiding mining colonies for their extracted HH3.
To help combat these threats, the miners came up with a gunship design based off the Lantillies Shipyards DB4 Support Ship. It’s quick, light and maneuverable even in the larger heavier gas planets. Its weapons system is both offensive and defensive capable. Four gun turrets can ward off just about any attack from any direction, while the main cannons can strike a heavy blow to eliminate the threat!
Its main deck normally used for resupply can be retro fitted with seats for 8 Aerial Raiders. Raiders can be deployed via the lower hatch crane, two side doors or vertical grappling hook cannon.
Specifications:
Fuselage length: 10 Bricks
Length: 10 Bricks
Height: 10 Bricks
Weight: Empty 33,226. Gross up to 73,000 pounds
Speed: 225 mph
Ceiling: 45,000ft above 29.9 SBP “Standard Barometric Pressure”
Range: 1,240 nautical miles
Power plant:
4 J59e Turboprop’s - HH3 injection system
2 J59b Turbojet / Turboshaft Hybrid - HH3 injection system - Electromagnetic high capacity
Crew: Six – Pilot, Reo, 4 Turret Gunners and a Mech Droid
Builder: Lantillies Shipyards
Armament:
4 Turrets - ABY Twin Laser Bo-Cannons
2 - ABY Single Laser Bo-Cannons
4 ABY J7 Heavy Laser Cannon
2 ADC500 500lbs “Blockbuster” (Atmospheric Depth Charges)
28 BR-9X 60lbs “Shrike” Short Range Heat Seeking Missile (4 Pods)
4 BR-56x 150lbs “Rampage” Medium Range Radar guided Missile
“The Menace of the South“ they call her. Ivy Cash may well be the most notorious bandit – and arguably the best quadcopter pilot – between El Paso and Santa Fe of the 2050s. All attempts to apprehend her have failed so far; out in the desert she manages to shake off even the most advanced pursuit drones over and over again.
Captured with my quadcopter just after sunset when some light still reflecting off the building windows. Yaletown Vancouver
“The Menace of the South“ they call her. Ivy Cash may well be the most notorious bandit – and arguably the best quadcopter pilot – between El Paso and Santa Fe of the 2050s. All attempts to apprehend her have failed so far; out in the desert she manages to shake off even the most advanced pursuit drones over and over again.