Manned drones, whats next?

[Whistlerpilot]

A high tech version of lawn chair attached to balloons.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/virals/11841525/Man-creates-home-made-helicopter-made-from-54-drones.html

[adam32]

I like his little sun canopy

[lelebebbel]

if it's manned, then it is - by definition - not a drone.

[whoknows idont]

Next will be people kicking the bucket attempting the same.

[r22butters]

That's awesome!

 

However I can't wait to get buzzed by the new Millennium Falcon drone!

[Wally]

I won't be comfortable sharing airspace with amateur operated UAVs until I can can carry civilian AMRAMs.

[achfly]

I've always found it so strange that remote control aircraft are referred to as drones. The dictionary.com folkes have even changed the definition a bit to fit it's popular use.

drone

[drohn]

noun

1.

the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.

 

2. an unmanned aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously, without human control or beyond line of sight

the GPS of a U.S. spy drone.

(loosely) any unmanned aircraft or ship that is guided remotely:

a radio-controlled drone.