Comments on: Cameras + Choppers

By: Devlin

Devlin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:33:40 +0000

It’s all about the soundtrack, add Ride of the Valkyries to this and it’s cinema. Keep the annoying buzz and it’s a documentary.

[Heh--well put. --J.]

By: Gilmar

Gilmar — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:24:34 +0000

In Brazil is also being used by police

By: Richard Broom

Richard Broom — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:18:16 +0000

However useful this technology would be to law enforcement, I can’t see it being used here in the UK. If the helicopter failed (or was shot down with a well aimed brick) and fell onto a member of the public causing injury there would a huge public enquiry and law suits as well as helicopters would fly in all directions. Big bucks (well, over here, pounds) all round.

All that said, our Government is in a pretty desperate shape and they’re capable of anything. They do have a tendency to underestimate the ingenuity of the average British rioter however!

Richard

By: Jack Foster Mancilla

Jack Foster Mancilla — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:04:28 +0000

I think that it is to everyones benefit that these recorders are being priced down to usability. … To me, the advent of personal flying cameras are like the personal computers as they moved out of the hands few, and into the living rooms of us all. Information, without spin is a good thing. … I do know there will be people that spin their version of the information, but we will be able to gather our own information that either, confirms or refutes, the premises.

By: J. Peterson

J. Peterson — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:58:12 +0000

Imagine the footage you'll get when the UPenn Quad 'copters get let out of their cage.