Jason Muscat proposes marriage to his beloved and delivers the ring by quadcopter:
This is nice and sweet, however as shown in the following video, involving quadcopters in marriages can be a real knock out.
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Quadcopter collides with Sidney Harbour Bridge
And here’s a report on another quadcopter out of control, that ended up colliding with the Sidney Harbour Bridge. It was found near to one of the pilons of the bridge. No information has been released on the specific model, however a GoPro attached is mentioned. The police is investigating the footage on the sd video card.
“At this stage police don’t believe that the quad-copter is suspicious”
Good to know the quadcopter is not “suspicious”, looks like by default a quadcopter could indeed be suspicious. This is an interesting observation. In people’s mind quadcopters are related to drones, and drones are for surveillance, hence the suspiciousness I would guess.
Here’s the full article
A statement by Peter Gibson, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
The Sidney Harbour Bridge – Source: wikipedia
Update: “Counter-terrorism officers monitor police and aviation authority search for owner of quadcopter found near pylon. The authority is downloading data from the drone’s control system to try to find its owner”. Read the story
Drone crashes into crowd at Great Bull Run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQEAfVIJpHY
Horrible multirotor crash in the middle of the crowd. It seems like the drone first gets short of power (end of the battery?) and then goes entirely out of control, maybe for a late (too late) attempt to get it out of the area. Some people should know better, this gives a bad reputation to our hobby