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This surely is the ultimate surveying chariot

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Mounted with GPS, cameras, it'd be the bees knees of surveying apparatus.
Beats drones any day.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-14/dubai-police-announce-star-wars-style-hoverbikes-for-officers/9049860

 
Posted : October 13, 2017 4:13 pm
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What will they think up next? Reminds me of the movie "Tron" a little.

 
Posted : October 13, 2017 5:17 pm
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Think 'pine thicket' in SW Arkansas...cut a trail in for the EMTs and the Coroner...

 
Posted : October 13, 2017 7:39 pm
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Yeah, with sharp blades it could double as a bad boy on buckthorn!

 
Posted : October 13, 2017 8:44 pm
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The only really important "survey chariot," comes in pairs;
Always has been, always will be.
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Posted : October 13, 2017 9:00 pm
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[USER=228]@Loyal[/USER] I'd have to agree.
Realistically I'm not sure I'd trust myself on one of those contraptions, yet alone the flying wonder itself.

But. Imagine setting control with the RTK, putting down ground targets, then flying the site then processing.
All from the (relative) safety of a Jules Verne incarnation made real.
For some I'd imagine they'd be 'in clover' as we say here.
Whilst it stayed above the clover it'd be fine.

 
Posted : October 13, 2017 10:50 pm
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One of those motors quits and that thing'll fly just about as well as any brick or boulder.

 
Posted : October 14, 2017 3:59 am
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paden cash, post: 450967, member: 20 wrote: What will they think up next?

Kinda like when "color TV" first came out nobody thought technology could improve beyond that.

 
Posted : October 14, 2017 4:30 am
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Need to mount a rebar shooter on there somewhere.

 
Posted : October 14, 2017 11:52 am