Read more here. This is fabulous footage, but if you like soundtracks to be in keeping, you may want to turn this one down…
My thanks to boatbuilder Nick Smith for posting this on his Facebook account. Catch up with some of Nick’s latest stuff here.
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Fabulous footage yes – but also criminally irresponsible (and illegal) to fly over people like that. Any concept what a kilogram of plastic, lithium polymer and whirling sharp carbon fibre dropping from 200 metres will do to your hairstyle?. Sorry to be a killjoy – Love the site but this is out of order
I hadn’t thought of that. I’d guess that this is what drone fliers do all the time, isn’t it? I wonder what their ethics are? Do the same ethics apply to companies and organisations? I guess they should…
It seems the issue remains less than well considered… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_journalism
Got it:
‘The aircraft must not be flown:
That would make quite a lot of what we see illegal…
Gavin