Monthly Archives: March 2014

Aerial Photos & Videos

Spring in Zurich

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Today was a beautiful warm spring day and I decided to do what all the people from Zurich are doing, going down to the lake. While the promenade was severely crowded, I had the sky all for myself 😉

The skyline of Zurich with the Bellevue bridge and the Limmat in spring 2014.
The skyline of Zurich with the Bellevue bridge and the Limmat in spring 2014.
The newly redesigned Sechseläuten square in Zurich with the opera house in the background.
The newly redesigned Sechseläuten square in Zurich with the opera house in the background.

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Nomen est omen: Crashpilot

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Well, well, we all knew it had to happen. One of my copters crashed. It fell out of the sky, more then 30m onto asphalt. It looked really horrible. The Disco scattered into peaces, it had a totally broken frame with many damaged parts lying around. I could salvage a few pieces from the debris, but I will need to rebuild a new copter from scratch.

Some recovered parts after a crash. The copter fell apart, lost one arm and scattered into peaces.
Some recovered parts after a crash. The copter fell apart, lost one arm and scattered into peaces.

Luckily nobody got injured and nothing on the ground got damaged. So the worst thing is, that I don’t fully know why it happened. It could have been the almost empty battery, but I could also have been the camera controller board flying into the propellor. I guess I need to do more tests once I have rebuilt  my Discovery.  I just hoped I would not have to build a second Discovery Pro so soon again 🙁