Yamaha Rmax

[Coyote]

http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/global/industrial/sky/solution/rmax/index.html

Saw this on Connect on Discovery this morning. I thought it was pretty cool. Only 100,000USD

[bobsmith]

Bah, you can get similar size RC helis for much much cheaper which can do much more tricks... If you really wanted it to fly automatically you could add the electronics for much cheaper than 100 grand... now the software part for the automation would be the tricky bit though... But I think it would be much more fun to do it yourself than buy one where someone else had all the fun making...

[Coyote]

I thought it was cool since it was made by Yamaha. I'm sure other heli's are cheaper, but they're quite a hit in Japan as cropdusters. They've sold 2000 of them

[kro]

YACS (Yamaha Attitude Control System) ??????

Their choppers can control our attitudes?. I shit you not, they typo'd pretty bad with that one...LOL

[bobsmith]

Their choppers can control our attitudes?. I shit you not, they typo'd pretty bad with that one...LOL

Hell, I was thinking that you were taking a piss then I wasn't so sure... so I'm going to reply with the risk of making an ass of myself...

Attitude in aviation is refering to the way the nose of the aircraft is pointing in relation to the horizon (ie, nose up attitude or nose down attitude) definately NOT a typo...

Now have I made an ass of myself yet?

[kro]

No, you probably haven't, you're quite possibly on the money, I know dick about aviation, so I should have checked, but on the surface, it looked like altitude had been mis-spelt. :Oops: