First Person RC Plane Captures Stunning View of New York
Flying a first-person view RC plane around a city like New York can either land you in jail or on the popularity leaderboard of YouTube. Thankfully, it was the latter otherwise this awesome video of an RC plane over the city might have escaped us. Made by a RC plane enthusiast, the plane feeds back a stunning bird’s eye view of the city:
How to build your own:
FPV is a type of RC piloting where the video feed is transmitted to a video monitor or goggles. The auto documents his UAV build with a detailed thread on how to build it. The YouTube video also points to the resources you can use to get into the FPV hobby by building your own.
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December 23rd, 2010
I wonder if when those RC quadcopters (that you see mentioned a lot now) and their software is improved a bit we’ll see ‘google airview’
December 24th, 2010
If you zoom way in on Google Maps or Bing Maps, the images are taken by planes/choppers and not satellite.