Fly On Board With These Quadrotors Racing Through a Forest

The Phantom Menace has approximately one good shot : the routine where masses race through canyons at high speed while citizenry dash at them . Although reality might not quite be up to jet engines and high - powered rifles quite yet , a mathematical group of quadrotor hobbyists have manage to repeat the first - somebody thrill of race a dense obstacle class at gamey speed .

Airgonay , a Gallic model aircraft club , organise a first - soul - view quadrotor racing competitor recently , and it looks only about one dance step below afireworks dronefor how much merriment you could have with a small flight vehicle and a forest . As you ’d expect , people crash , a lot : fly quadrotors at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour through dense forestry , in close law of proximity to other drones , is a slight challenge : accord to the organisers , just making it around the 150 G racing circuit three time was an achievement , regardless of whether or not you finished on the soapbox .

The telecasting ’s in French , but the language of repeat Star Wars scenes with tiny flight aircraft is fairly ecumenical . [ YouTube ]