Dutch boy turns his dead rat into flying rodent – BBC Newsbeat
Ingenious.
One meeeelyion dollars (or less) for the first person to make a bong out of an elephant.
This is perfectly normal behaviour of the Dutch when it comes to hobbies – they can buy the drone kits from Conrad (the German electronics stores; which are also popular in NL); either with a conventional airframe or just the components to build your own.
The page selling them has a link to the rules about flying them safely and what is/isn’t permitted; there is no domestic or EU legislation forbidding the use of a stuffed animal (or anything else) as part of the airframe provided it is flown safely and not used to illegally spy on people or discharge any kind of missile. I expect the three of them have to warn the Luftwaffe (or the RAF, depending which direction they are going, I doubt the accu would last as far as Denmark) or at the very least Eurocontrol if they are flying the rat in a border area so they don’t accidentally trigger off World War III.
I think the two older chaps live near the North Sea and the dude who builds the helicopters works on lots of other mechanical engineering projects there. It would be definitely inadvisable to fly it outside the EU…
Most likely it (and the other flying stuffed animals) contain RFID tags or would be easily identifiable by their unique shapes; or everyone else in Europe thinks “only the Dutch would make something like that” :laugh_at:
Below is the link for NL public broadcasting youth pages (the equivalent of BBC Newsbeat/Newsround)
http://www.powned.tv/nieuws/raar/2014/09/dode_kankerrat_kan_vliegen.html
a further thought; although the rat or cat might not make it to Denmark; I wonder about the ostrich?
This is considerably larger and could carry more accus without going out of balance; and/or it wouldn’t be “unfair” as such to recharge it at Cuxhaven and Flensburg (they’d doubtless have to notify some Bundesamt about this but if they use renewable energy sources its still environment friendly; as the ostrich wasn’t killed to build it; it has already keeled over and its former owners and the vet said they could have it.).
From there Odense isn’t far; it might need another recharge to get to Copenhagen as the flight path could be longer (it looks potentially busy in those skies)
LMAO, I appreciate the thoroughness General Lighting.
I had to read through all these rules for a project at work (a long distance wireless link) and still have to send more paperwork to Ofcom and provide a 24/7 contact to turn the kit off if there is an emergency (as some of the frequencies are shared with aircraft radars); after which I can understand exactly why some chaps would want to build and fly a radio controlled dead ostrich across Northern Europe…
If i saw a flying dead ostrich I think I’d just pack it in and call it a life well lived.
@General Lighting 566479 wrote:
after which I can understand exactly why some chaps would want to build and fly a radio controlled dead ostrich across Northern Europe…
Maybe you could explain that but I think I may need some of what the Dutch have had before I can understand as well.
In that big folder is a list of the permitted frequencies, bandwidth and power levels or wireless equipment that doesn’t need a full scale license (it sometimes needs a basic one).
This is the kind of equipment your laptop might use, as well as more powerful stuff used to send data to and from industrial machinery where its not feaisble or safe to run a communications cable to it (i.e the whole lot is in the middle of the North Sea). I expect the dude who bult the flying animals has been told to read the same thing by Agentschap Telecom when setting up equipment for his day job.
The CEPT document (with the 4 post horns, each with a lightning flash for electricity and a cross section of multi-pair cable in the centre) is 97 pages long, produced in Denmark from a meeting where all the boffins from the EU’s Communications Ministries sat round a table in in Tromsø (in Norway, perhaps the usual one in København wasn’t big enough) and describes in great detail what you can and can’t do with these European shared frequencies.
There is everything in there from hearing aid transmitters, wireless microphones, TV camera links to satellites that can communicate to space or bounce signals from the Moon. 3 sets of frequencies are clearly defined as “for extended range use of larger model aircraft” – into which category the ostrich fits 😉
Thanks bud but I’m more interested in what possible use a flying, dead, flightless bird, could possibly have.
Lol, saw the thread title and instantly thought of the ostrich-copter. Shame I was beaten to it, I’ve posted a video of it up on here somewhere before.
OK, I had to google the ostrichcopter and other than, because we can, I still have no clue why.
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