How I broke my copter or "How to run into an air pumpkin"
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I brought my Phantom 2 quadrocopter to a pumpkin farm. They have a gun there that shoots pumpkins into the forest (they fly 60 meters at a speed of more than 300 km per hour). My daughter said: “It would be nice to shoot a video from the forest” ...
In general, I sent a quadrocopter into the forest, directly opposite the trees, slightly above their tops. I asked the guy who controlled the cannon where the pumpkins would fly, and he pointed to a small area where there were fewer leaves on the trees. I installed a copter 4 meters to the left of this place. And this guy pulls the lever, and the pumpkin takes off, leans a little to the right, and then ...
Then I didn’t have time to somehow react. Pumpkin crashed into a quadrocopter, and here's a loss of $ 500.
I thought that the GoPro camera was also covered, but when I accidentally discovered it 4 hours later, it turned out to be intact. The suspension was not badly damaged, but the rod, which passes through one of the axes of rotation, was scattered into pieces.
After I yelled "noooooooo!" with all the power of my lungs (I still need a quadcopter for work this week), I calmly asked that guy what happened, why the pumpkin deviated from its usual course and why it flew lower than he said. He replied that it seems that someone first loaded a smaller pumpkin into the cannon, which affected the flight of his pumpkin. It’s just incredible bad luck, but I was also stupid, placing the equipment too close.
Total damage amounted to 500 dollars. The inside of the copter was not affected. Three propeller motors worked perfectly. The fourth needed to be re-soldered, and I needed a new building. The gimbal, as I mentioned earlier, was damaged. And, I forgot to mention that the chassis also required replacement. And I never found a new transmitter. The GoPro camera looked and worked as if there was no accident (there was just a piece of pumpkin stuck on it, but when I cleaned it up, it again began to look great).
So pumpkins and copters are not a compatible concept.
And here is the video:
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In general, I sent a quadrocopter into the forest, directly opposite the trees, slightly above their tops. I asked the guy who controlled the cannon where the pumpkins would fly, and he pointed to a small area where there were fewer leaves on the trees. I installed a copter 4 meters to the left of this place. And this guy pulls the lever, and the pumpkin takes off, leans a little to the right, and then ...
Then I didn’t have time to somehow react. Pumpkin crashed into a quadrocopter, and here's a loss of $ 500.
I thought that the GoPro camera was also covered, but when I accidentally discovered it 4 hours later, it turned out to be intact. The suspension was not badly damaged, but the rod, which passes through one of the axes of rotation, was scattered into pieces.
After I yelled "noooooooo!" with all the power of my lungs (I still need a quadcopter for work this week), I calmly asked that guy what happened, why the pumpkin deviated from its usual course and why it flew lower than he said. He replied that it seems that someone first loaded a smaller pumpkin into the cannon, which affected the flight of his pumpkin. It’s just incredible bad luck, but I was also stupid, placing the equipment too close.
Total damage amounted to 500 dollars. The inside of the copter was not affected. Three propeller motors worked perfectly. The fourth needed to be re-soldered, and I needed a new building. The gimbal, as I mentioned earlier, was damaged. And, I forgot to mention that the chassis also required replacement. And I never found a new transmitter. The GoPro camera looked and worked as if there was no accident (there was just a piece of pumpkin stuck on it, but when I cleaned it up, it again began to look great).
So pumpkins and copters are not a compatible concept.
And here is the video:
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