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Old 9th September 2014, 08:20 PM
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We are gonna need air traffic control I think as Connor123 also has one of these to play with!
Talking about airtraffic control, the company I doing some work for at the moment (building a met mast to float out into the north sea on giant concrete sinkable base) hired a drone company witha £4000k camera drone to take photos of the thing arriving in the Cromarty Firth. Unfortunately it (the drone) took a very expensive early bath in the Firth never to be seen again. A few seconds later an RAF Tornado came flying down the Firth at a few hundred feet. It was thought that the terrain following radar may have interfered with the drone's radio control systems such that it didnt auto return home on loss of signal....
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Old 9th September 2014, 08:58 PM
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Talking about airtraffic control, the company I doing some work for at the moment (building a met mast to float out into the north sea on giant concrete sinkable base) hired a drone company witha £4000k camera drone to take photos of the thing arriving in the Cromarty Firth. Unfortunately it (the drone) took a very expensive early bath in the Firth never to be seen again. A few seconds later an RAF Tornado came flying down the Firth at a few hundred feet. It was thought that the terrain following radar may have interfered with the drone's radio control systems such that it didnt auto return home on loss of signal....
I bet they were sick as a parrot, but unless they plane was blocking GPS there was no need to lose it.

Connor's and my copters have return to home using GPS on the event of signal loss and if I had 4k invested in a rig I would make sure it came back
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Old 10th September 2014, 11:17 AM
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Brilliant toy Del and Connor, we must have them when we meet next time.
What would be even more cool, a rolling video, car following another car on the motorway or A road and one of them taking few photos and a video from different angles, but the question is, how fast does it go??
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Old 10th September 2014, 11:40 AM
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Not at motorway speeds Marcin
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Old 10th September 2014, 11:42 AM
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Not at motorway speeds Marcin
50mph ?? On the slow lane, or A roads, they should be fine?!?!
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Old 16th September 2014, 08:18 AM
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Morning all,

Much happening?

Its all quiet over here.
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Old 16th September 2014, 08:27 AM
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Just dropped the 8 off at Audi for a service, was rather disappointed to discover the Rs7 wasn't my courtesy car, I got a charming little golf with acc and some other toys instead.
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Old 16th September 2014, 08:43 AM
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A golf at Audi?

I thought they would always want you to have a Audi to help tempt you into a new car?

I personally don't like that cause then I get in to mine and want a newer car lol
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Old 16th September 2014, 09:25 AM
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I know what you mean, probably just as well I didn't get to play in the rs7 because it will be many years before I could afford it.
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Old 1st October 2014, 11:19 AM
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No more tax disc from now on.
WooHoo.

Who went out this morning and remove theirs?
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