...nice to see DJI owners aren't the only ones with flyaways!

[zander lane]

...seems that even with top of line state of the art military grade drones, flyaways are still a possibility:

Military Drone Took A 600 Mile Joyride Across the U.S.

...yikes.

 

[Deleted member 62848]

...seems that even with top of line state of the art military grade drones, flyaways are still a possibility:

Military Drone Took A 600 Mile Joyride Across the U.S.

...yikes.

Yikes alright lucky it had no nukes onboard

 

[wildturkeyway]

This was already posted and beat to a pulp a month ago when it happened...if i'm not mistaken

 

[Slackware]

I hope it didn't fly over Idaho and take a picture, feds could be in trouble if it did.
But I would LOVE to meet the pilot who can see 600 miles LOS.

 

[DanMan32]

They must be using DJI Go 3.1.2 on an Android.

 

[Slackware]

They must be using DJI Go 3.1.2 on an Android.

reminded me of the george clooney way-point tree flight of P4 in hollyweed..

 

[jwmcgrath]

Gonna need some serious tail wind to RTH.

 

[KongWerks]

I know they lost it but I didn't know they had found it. If it did travel 600 miles with a published normal range of 70 miles or so, someone isn't telling the truth about the true capability of this piece of hardware or the events as publicly documented. Going to have to start wearing my tin foil hat again

 

[KongWerks]

Looked it up... Wikipedia says:

• Range: 1,151 mi; 1,852 km (1,000 nmi)

 

[jwmcgrath]

I know they lost it but I didn't know they had found it. If it did travel 600 miles with a published normal range of 70 miles or so, someone isn't telling the truth about the true capability of this piece of hardware or the events as publicly documented. Going to have to start wearing my tin foil hat again

Save some tinfoil for me... way too many parts that don't make sense!

Even if a "typical" flight is 70mi, how/why is it fuelled for 600?

We have people filling threads talking about GPS trackers to get their little plastic quad copters back, and they lost this multi-million dollar high tech weapon of war until some some dude randomly found it in a tree?

Me smells something incomplete about the story.

 

[jwmcgrath]

Seriously, they should stick a TrackR or a Ping on it.