Farmer Not Waiting Around For Gov. Regulations on UAVs

By GOSIA WOZNIACKA, AP WRITERThe Daily News Online                                

PORTLAND, Ore. — Idaho farmer Robert Blair isn’t waiting around for federal aviation officials to work out rules for drones. He and a friend built their own, outfitting it with cameras and using it to

monitor his 1,500 acres.

Under 10lbs and 5 feet long nose to tail, the aircraft is the size of a turckey and Blair suses it to get a birds eye veiw of his cows and feilds of wheat, peas, barly, and alfalfa.FULL STORY HERE
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I came across this article about servos and how they work and thought the analogy and the principles he conveyed were fantastic. So I had to post it in it`s entirety for all the RC flyers out there to read. It covers everything very thoroughly...enjoy this great read, I did.

By: RC Helicopter Fun
RC servos convert electrical commands from the receiver back into movement. A servo simply plugs into a specific receiver channel and is used to move that specific part of the RC model. This movement is proportional meaning that the servo will only move as much as the transmitter stick on your radio is moved.

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These RC Quadcopters are going to be the most well reviewed and best rated quadcopters there is in the market. We note that while the term ‘RC Quadcopters” usually refers to toy radio controlled electronic flying devices, we are also going to be talking about and reviewing some larger models of unmanned aerial vehicles which have high technology surveillance abilities using HD Cameras like the Hero 3 to capture very precise pictures. Those types of applications are probably going to be something that the US Military, specifically the US Air Force are looking into.