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Marc Ramsey commented on Chris Anderson's blog post '"Drone Journalism Arrives"'
@Ellison Chan:
My argument is simply that to maintain a "civil society" it is sometimes necessary to break inconvenient laws. As a licensed pilot and aircraft owner, I also know the difference between a Federal Aviation Regulation…
Marc Ramsey commented on Chris Anderson's blog post '"Drone Journalism Arrives"'
In a civil society we can't make laws, and break them whenever it becomes inconvenient to us.
Sadly, you must have missed school the day they discussed Letter from a Birmingham Jail or even the very founding of this country. Here's a…
Marc Ramsey commented on Chris Anderson's blog post '"Drone Journalism Arrives"'
mabe [sic] there is a bit of both here, police need to relax a bit, journalists need to stay out of the way and students need to move on after making their points and when asked to do so
We're moving way off topic for this site, but had…
Marc Ramsey commented on Chris Anderson's blog post '"Drone Journalism Arrives"'
the New York Police Department, which closed the airspace above Lower Manhattan during Tuesday’s raid
I've seen this mentioned in a number of accounts, and I'm confused. the NYPD has absolutely no right to close…
Marc Ramsey replied to Keith's discussion 'Airspeed Measurement?'
Airspeed (IAS indicated airspeed, not TAS true airspeed) is calculated using the differential between static (ambient) pressure and pitot (dynamic) pressure. You can simply vent the static port inside the fuselage, but it is more accurate to use…
Marc Ramsey left a comment for Doug Weibel
Hi Doug,
Yes, that is my DG-600/18 in my avatar, I've also owned a DG-101, DG-303, Duo, Ventus B, and ASW-20BL at various times. No glider, right now, but I'm building a winch with some friends. Also fiddling with some indoor autonomous…
Marc Ramsey commented on Jack Crossfire's blog post 'This week in aerospace'
The Airship Ventures Zeppelin is a rigid airship with an outer frame and internal (helium) gas cells, it is not a blimp. It was built by the same Zeppelin company that made the USS Los Angeles, Graf Zeppelin, and Hindenburg...
Marc Ramsey commented on Chris Anderson's blog post 'Somebody finally got the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor model working right!'
A fixed wing VTOL aircraft has better range, endurance, and speed than a helicopter, if you only need vertical takeoff/landing and limited hovering...
Profile Information
- About Me:
- Full-size glider and airplane pilot, embedded software developer, researcher at Stanford, interested in RC models and micro UAVs.
- Tell us a bit about your UAV interest
- www.ranlog.com/ramsey
- Hometown:
- Oakland, CA
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 1:02pm on November 23, 2007,
Gary Mortimer said…
- Hi Marc
No offence meant when I added to your response to my post.
I'm quite interested in rattling the cage and seeing what happens in this space.
There are stacks of lurkers that stay silent.
Now thats the real conspiracy.
Cheers
G
- At 1:19pm on November 23, 2007,
Marc Ramsey said…
- No offense taken. Small UAV technology is already too wide spread for effective control, I expect there will be attempts to control it that will ultimately fail.
I am, however, quite concerned by the paramilitary direction being taken by many local police departments in the US. Police departments engaged in secret UAV tests are not in keeping with the way things were supposed to work in a "democracy".
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