Nice!

When you take your hobby that seriously (willing to commit that much time, effort, and money),

then you're just one step away from going into the UAV business!

DB, any idea what it sounds like? 

Do they need a GPS system?  Might be able to help....

 

 

Too bad there isn't much of a demand for 1/9th scale AFVs,

because it would be even cooler to watch it land,

only to have a another guy or two with more remote controls drive an Abrams, a Bradley, or a Paladin, or MLRS out of its belly...

Do they need a GPS system?  Might be able to help....

Probably not much demand due to scale, complexity, cost and from what I have heard...a requirement to inform the CAA when they launch it. Apparently it is classed as a UAV and not an r/c model due to its size.

 

I am not sure if you need to lodge flightplans in the UK for ultralight sized craft? Hmmm.

 

Curious.

 

 At the least RC aircraft above 50kg should be registered and a background check to make sure the operators don't have any terrorist connections.

If we're going to be raising thoughts of terrorist UAV kamikazes,

then why not consider a more obvious, but just as insidious, use: carry several dozen to a few hundred pounds of cocaine, marijuana, opium, of whatever contraband trips yer fancy?

 

I remember this British crime series from ages ago (on PBS before BBC America had its own channels, late 1980s-ish),

where a group of jewel thieves were smuggling stolen gems across the Channel, using RC aircraft, with minor course adjustment being by waypoint controllers in boats every so many km.

 

Seems that metal aircraft like Cessnas and Piper Cubs might be detectable flying across the US border with few bales of weed or several dozen kilos of coke or heroin or whatever,

but a composite construction RC aircraft with a range of several dozen km and the ability to carry even only a dozen kilos would be well worth its expense to the drug runners...?