It is OK to snoop and blow people up but no beer deliveries. .................. The idea seemed ingenious: Delivering 12-packs of beer to the cold, windswept surfaces of popular ice fishing lakes — using a drone. Lakemaid Beer president Jack Supple brewed up a plan this winter to quench the beer thirst of ice fishers on central Minnesota’s Lake Mille Lacs, with retailers taking orders using GPS coordinates. He and his colleagues rented a drone, tested the idea on Lake Waconia and then put up a video. Set to cheery music, it featured a six-bladed unmanned craft gliding over fish houses and gently setting a box of Frosty Winter Lager on a snowy lake. Beer buzz? FAA grounds plan to deliver 12-packs by drone | Star Tribune
The video was a stroke of advertising genius. An awesome idea crushed by the government.... Just a common theme around these parts now days..... if it does not benefit one of the lib donor's, the G-men will stomp on the neck of the businessman trying to earn a buck.
I was always taught 8hrs bottle to throttle.... Somehow Amazon will manage it though.. I'll order packages from them and get some 12ga practice, after delivery of course.
I am impressed by the lifting capacity of the drone. If you put a larger battery and a video camera with a wireless link you would have your own eye in the sky for your AO.
