Posted on 07/21/2015 2:22:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Austin Haughwout posted a video that shows a four-propeller drone hovering as it fires four shots in a wooded area
An 18-year-old Connecticut man may be in trouble with federal aviation officials after posting a video online that shows shots being fired from a drone that had been jury-rigged with a handgun.
The FAA said Tuesday it is investigating whether Austin Haughwout of Clinton violated its regulations, which prohibit the careless or reckless operation of a model aircraft.
Haughwout’s father told WFSB-TV last week that his son created the drone with the help of a Central Connecticut State University professor. The 14-second video shows a four-propeller drone with a semiautomatic handgun strapped on top hovering as it fires four shots in a wooded area.
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It was only a matter of time ...
Made himself a target by posting it on Youtube.
Totalitarian leftists despise individual initiative.
How was this careless or reckless?
It involved going outside.
What a shock. How long before drones will be used to firebomb or drop assorted small explosives on the homes or buildings of enemies?
The only limit will be the imaginations of millions.
I’m kinda wondering that also.
Agreed. I remember a discussion on FR a few years back of smaller drones being armed. It’s an inevitability, given technological advances and what not.
I can foresee (if they don’t already exist), sniper drones, tiny laser-spotting drones (painting a target for the big boys), and so on. One hopes we’re many years away from Dune’s hunter-seekers, but something like that will be reality in the coming years, too.
Letting liberals find out about it?
Didn’t FPSRussia do this years ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
give the boy a pentagon contract.
It’s one of those things that can indeed be done safely & properly & legally ... but can get very unsafe & improper & illegal very fast, making the likes of FAA & BATFE very nervous and eager to prosecute.
I thought you could not have guns in CT. ?
That was done with digital effects, and widely derided as “stupidly unrealistic”.
Now we see the real thing, just involving a pistol instead of a rifle.
Its Connecticut..what did you expect???
FAA to the commoners:
Drones for me but not for thee...
If it’s on private property I don’t think there is much they can do.....................
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