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
What will they think up next? Reminds me of the movie "Tron" a little.
Think 'pine thicket' in SW Arkansas...cut a trail in for the EMTs and the Coroner...
Yeah, with sharp blades it could double as a bad boy on buckthorn!
The only really important "survey chariot," comes in pairs;
Always has been, always will be.
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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.
One of those motors quits and that thing'll fly just about as well as any brick or boulder.
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.
Need to mount a rebar shooter on there somewhere.