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The New Peeping Toms

Francis Vineyard

Francis Vineyard

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Drone Building Inspections

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Clayton DeKorne

German researchers are currently pioneering the development of flying drones for inspecting buildings and infrastructure for damage (see "Flying Robots Inspect Building From the Air," Sourceable Industry News).

But drone inspections aren't just for high-budget industrial projects any more. A number of residential contractors are leaning on quadrocoptors and other UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) for inspecting hard-to-access areas and capturing aerial work views. Here are a few examples:

· The Chimney Clinic, a chimney company servicing NW Pennsylvania, uses an AR Parrot drone for scoping out jobs.

made with a DJI Pantom quadrocoptor.· Keep in mind that the client just might use a drone to inspect your job.
 
Will the local judge issue an administrative warrant based on the drone. I would check with the City Attorney prior to taking action based on the drone. This is uncharted territory.
 
Great. Bo's sitting in air conditioned offices with joysticks. Never have to see one again.

I might be on board.

You guys will all look those large bodies on Wall-e.

Brent.
 
They are apparently using them around here and some are not too happy:

\ said:
Drones: Their noise largely unremarkedOne recent Saturday I was walking my dog at dusk in Heather Farm Park in Walnut Creek when a loud buzzing caught my attention. It sounded like a chain saw cutting down a tree a block away. I looked around but saw nothing.

It got louder and scarier, and my dog started cowering. This made me look up, and there was a drone, with two red lights and two green ones, cruising at about 100 feet. I stopped and stared, and it slowed and hovered above me. I confess that after a few seconds I made a rude gesture. It swooped away toward John Muir Medical Center (into the helicopter airspace?).

Why is no one talking about the noise these things make? If it sounded like a chainsaw at 100 feet up, how loud would it be dropping a package on my neighbor's porch?

Will we all be subjected to the torment of nonstop high-decibel droning?

Rosalie Howarth

Walnut Creek
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I suspect in time someone will come up with a design that reduces the helicopter blade-vortex interaction noise like they have with the military versions. Then drive by inspections could become an accepted procedure.
 
Francis Vineyard said:
I suspect in time someone will come up with a design that reduces the helicopter blade-vortex interaction noise like they have with the military versions. Then drive by inspections could become an accepted procedure.
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Try this one

 
Somebody should explain to the poor woman that drones making building inspections are saving the public a ton of money replacing building inspectors with their salaries and benefits. Now what we really need is drones to fight fires, replacing firemen could save the nation from bankruptcy.
 
Francis Vineyard said:
it's happening! Just remembered a few weeks ago what sounded something like a chainsawin my neck of the woods I'm not so sure.
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It might have been a lyrebird.
 
I can not WAIT to shoot one of those things down. I'm going to start throwing my 20 gauge in the truck with the AR just in case.

Brent.
 
Francis

If a chainsaw runs in the woods and there is no one around to hear it, does it still make a noise

I say no, Noise means any unwanted sound. If noone hears it, it is not unwanted sound....
 
mark handler said:
FrancisIf a chainsaw runs in the woods and there is no one around to hear it, does it still make a noise

I say no, Noise means any unwanted sound. If noone hears it, it is not unwanted sound....
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Thanks for the clarification. When I'm in a court room or a site plan meeting and I fart and afterwards asked people what was funny or why they seemed to be crying; they usually reply they can't remember and with no notation related in the transcripts does this mean I didn't make a sound and there wasn't a noise too or was it a wanted sound?

This hasn't actually happened exactly this way, most of the time people just ignore me but still I never know.

By the way did anyone see the article on the military Black Hornet?
 
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