I wish I didn't believe it

[pecunium]

I like toys, and things which go boom, and even "bang" as much as the next guy (heck, perhaps more than most), but it never occured to me to make a Flying .45.

I mean, no; just, no.

A guy took an RC helicopter, fixed a .45 Colt to it, added a video camera (so he could see what it was pointing at), and hooked up an actuator so he could actually fire it, while flying the helicopter.

The mind reels.

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about the language, "this is liberty hall, where you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard."

The Best Defense: Zig-zag to cover. Diving rolls, sliding stops, sudden changes in velocity. The field of view has to be pretty narrow and the image isn't quite real time. The flattening of perspective, combined with the desire to be "on target" slows people using such remote devices.

The gas tank won't explode. It takes vapors under pressure to get an explosion, and a spark to set of the fuel-air mixture. One shot isn't going to do it (no matter what Michael Paré was able to do in Streets of Fire [which has Willem Dafoe as a great bad guy... the leather suspenderpants are worth the price of admission]),and two would be a freak of nature, akin to being struck by lightning.