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To: SES1066
...probably has (had) a miniaturized steady-cam and precise GPS for mapping. Looks like, unlike the rotor-types, it could get quite high and thus needs expensive electronics for piloting and auto-return?

Still...$80,000?

Maybe that's in Australian dollars. In this country you can buy a real airplane for $80k.

31 posted on 09/29/2017 1:52:44 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

But then you’d have to pay a man to fly the plane. After about 100 hours, or so, an unmanned drone gets paid for if you’re not paying for the pilot.


32 posted on 09/29/2017 1:56:33 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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