This week I ran across a video of a “quadcopter” (also called a quadrotor helicopter or a quadrocopter) flying over the beach in Fort Lauderdale.
What’s interesting is that the quadcopter quickly catches up with Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas. It flies behind and far over the giant cruise ship for a few minutes.
It seems rather amazing that a little copter like that can fly so far and high and fast, and it can be safely controlled from so far away.
The video was shot and edited by Carlo Vaccari. You can see his Facebook page RC Copters here.
It was disappointing, however, to see an incredible amount of diesel / bunker fuel smoke billowing out of the ship. It’s particularly nasty around the 5:00 minute mark.
A year ago we blogged about a quadcopter buzzing the Costa Concordia – QuadroCopter Operators Arrested in Giglio for Filming Costa Concordia.