Drone carrying a video camera

OH48Lt wrote:
Drones make good targets. They've already been blown out of the sky, although the likelihood of that happening is low. One do-gooder group parked on an adjacent road and used one to overfly a hunting club that they suspected of using live bird targets. The drone became a target when it was spotted. It did make it back to the road, but its flying days were over. There is a You Tube video on that one.

With drones being so affordable now, lots of people have an interest in them. Quite a few good uses for them, and some not so good. At the Dayton Hamvention last week, video-capable quadcopters were being sold for under $100.

Its still illegal to shoot at an aircraft, any aircraft. There was a little phantom flying over a crowd awhile back and someone threw a wadded up T-shirt at it and knocked it down. Guess who got their hands slapped the hardest? Not saying its right, but the pilot was equally negligent.

Its not the $100 toys that worry me, you can grab them out of the air, its the much larger ones like mine nicknamed the Flying Cleaver that cannot be around crowds. Someone could get killed with those blades at speed