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I'm surprised no-one crashed ...amazing seeing that...is it real?

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Knowing you, it is well within your capabilities.

How long a power cable do you think you will need?

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looks like it was all done with mirrors??

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I saw that too a few days ago and I will admit that I wondered the same.
But basically it's what is commonly referred to as a drone and the one in the clip looks to be quite large and have a lot of motors so ????

Both Amazon and UPS are testing drone deliveries so there's obviously some capability for these things to carry some weight, but a whole human?

One thing I know for sure: much though I would love a go, it certainly wouldn't be in traffic like that.

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I thought that as well....but look at him, not a pick on him! he needs a good feeding up

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Oh, that can't have been Foxy himself, as he's far from skinny!

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You’re going to have to learn how to surf first

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I suppose it could be internet trickery, there doesn't seem to be many clear shots. However, if you look at the radius of the motors, it's very large and would provide a stable platform. Battery size would be a problem though, the greater the range and the heavier the load, the larger the battery would need to be. Perhaps that's why he is so skinny. I think that was a problem with space flight, the more powerful the rockets were, the more fuel was needed, so the rockets had to be more powerful.....sort of catch 22.....That method sure seems safer and more doable than jet packs. I've got a model helicopter and it's a bitch to fly, I got it before drones came out which are easy peasy to keep in the air. With new battery and motor technology, it's a whole new exciting world and I think that clip of the drone is quite possibly for real.

Balancing a board on a ball should be all the training I'll need to defy gravity and get airbourne Minx, although I might have to lose a few pounds like JB suggests.....

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Hi Foxy, do you remember when I was building the first electric bike and, after buying a soldering iron and a solder gun, I had problems generating enough heat on the XT60 connectors etc, well I have bought one of these. Have you ever soldered with a flame, if so, how easy is it?

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We were issued with liquid-gas powered slobbering irons at work, the ones that look like a fat pen. There was a small combustion chamber and an interchangeable end. You could have it as a mini blowtorch with a flame about the size of a pencil end, or put a soldering tip on it. The flame heated up the tip so you used it as a normal iron.

If yours is just a flame without a metal tip, you might find pinpoint soldering a problem, especially on a circuit board as the heat would be spread across other components.
Yours looks more like the ones posh chefs use to blacken baked goods to hide other defects.

If you are using it for something like joining two individual wires or connectors away from anything else, then I don't think you will have a problem.

The main problem with the gas ones is that we weren't allowed to work in the test chambers with them because of the risk of KABOOM if the flame got too near a fuel or oil feed connector, or the collection of heavier than air vapours that pooled in pits and drains.
Everything had to intrinsically safe so we had a couple of smoldering irons with rechargeable batteries that we could draw from stores if we needed to.