Recent content by AuldGimpy

Last year, maybe two past, I met a guy with A Phantom 4. Had a blether about it then he demonstrated the height and range. He sent it scudding across and up a hillside and I lost track for a couple of minutes. Then I re-acquired visual and followed it soaring back.... magnificent beast is a...

Only problem with us Old Age Droners is the unavoidable reduction in VLOS distance. ??

They were flyaway poly-bags! “Drones“ were made a convenient scapegoat. ?

It will depend on your viewpoint hemisphere (northern climes and antipodean) perspective. Throw in the Curious Coriolis Effect and what goes around is actually coming around at the same time!!! To someone in Oz looking up to Mr REL in NC unscrewing his beer bottle top in CCW direction would...

Here is my collection. The square bag with all the zips is an Ultimaxx which was sent by mistake. Easy to mix it up with a Manfrotto D1!! The YX is the first bag I bought. Cheap and cheerful but it holds all the kit. Best of the lot are the Manfrotto D1's. They are a bit more expensive but are...

Oldies have to fart together? :eek: Interesting concept album pottitential! Sorry, the eyesight is getting a bit blurry... Keeking through too many keyholes.o_O

It isn’t the first, and sadly won’t be the last time that tourists from the continent come over to UK and end up driving and crashing on the “wrong” side of the roads. Usually it ends up in fatalities for the tourists and residents due to the head-on closing speeds which can be up to 140 mph. A...

Maybe we should start a list of “Good Drone News” with reports such as this. Just the links, no comments, and then forward them to anyone with concerns about the use of UAV’s. Alan.

Booo! Unfair to dragonflies! Parked aeroplanes to re-enforce the public perception and association of drones with wrecked aircraft. I know for a fact that seeing drone racing as an actual sport certainly got me interested in uav’s. It was not the thought “Ooh! I could cause a lot of mayhem with...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24751208 Check #8. The Chicken Gun. It must be the truthful fact, it is reported by that most trusted source ... the BBC. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] I am pretty certain that there really was a tv programme a while back about testing RR Aero Engines to...

Pah! Over here we don’t need no guns. [emoji16] Have you not heard of the ancient Scottish martial art of “Hodderum Hiederum”? You hodderum an a’ll hiederum! [emoji23]??

It is the Guardian Newspaper www and again ‘us’ in the UK are pretty selective who sees news items without (paid) subscription. Gotta pay for the cliff dive of paper copy sales somehow. Alan.

The programme is available until 2-August on BBC iPlayer but I think it will be limited access to UK only. I missed the first part and caught it from where an ex-military sniper had a go at shooting with a .30? big bullet and matching scope. 5 shots missed @ 300 metres. Bring it closer to 200...

One of our UK Freeview channels is currently running Get Smart, along with many other real, clean comedy shows. I “Dream of Jeanie” etc.. Not that I am an aged Puritan or the like but if the random, unnecessary “f” word is comedy then I am an undiscovered comedian. ?? Nothing wrong with showing...

I can still count to ten, both Imperial and Metric. ;)