Mr Mabe, 44, said: 'We have had a lot of fun making this. It's taken some work to make it happen, but it's great fun. 'It flies with the help of a remote control helicopter but you rig it up in a really brilliant way. It has to be quiet so people don't hear it. 'Wherever there are people, we will go. We have since managed to make its eyes glow red and we are going to go out at night...... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ntrolled-winged-skeleton-ahead-Halloween.html
I'll put my money on a quadcopter. There are a few places in the video where you can just hear it. It's not the sound of a helicopter, which is very distinctive. Also, it would be almost impossible to get a heli inside that thing. Sounds more like the typical quad, which makes a lot more sense. I know it was Mabe that said "helicopter", but you know he didn't build this thing and it would be no surprise if he's not technically correct. Listen to the video again carefully! ...Tiger
Almost all the sound on the video was added after the fact which makes it hard to hear anything real. But... Listen around 60sec and again at about 1min 45sec. ...Tiger
I hear it too, but it's hard to say if any of the sound is actually from the reaper. Even looking closely several times I cannot see where the arms for a quad would be. The other problem with it being a quadcopter is there is so much loose cloth hanging that it would get caught in a prop. After digging through the comments there is speculation that it was a coaxial helicopter between the wings on the back or inside the rib cage. One commenter thinks it is a balloon like one of those flying fish.
I dunno. That thing seem to have more precision than the fish. If it was a quad. And say it was secured in the rib cage free of anything to get caught. Wouldn't it have problems with air flow. I would really like to find out how it was done.
There does seem to be something about the rib cage but I don't know if you could get a quad big enough inside there to lift that whole thing and not get tangled in all the hanging material. I would also really like to know how they did it. Christmas is coming and we still have time to make a scary Santa.
It sure can't be that fish. I've flown those and that's just impossible. You have to be able to wag the tail and you go up and down by moving the CG (control unit slides) up and down the length of the body. It wouldn't be very hard to do with a quad. It would be down right easy if you started out with something like the AR Drone. Nothing gets tangled by air blowing out the bottom where all the action is and you just need some CF rods looped over the top to keep stuff from going in there. Almost all of the audio on the video was added. They only kept the audio in a couple places like where the kids were screaming toward the end. That's where it sounds like a quad. Certainly doesn't sound like a helicopter. ...Tiger
The secret is out. The reaper actually does not fly on it's own at all. It's attached to a hexacopter flying above by 150 feet of fishing line, that's what looks like antennas on top of the head. Here is the behind the scenes video:
If I was going to do it I would rather not have 150 feet, or any for that mater, of fishing line to get tangled up in. He mentions a couple things in the video. One is that the reaper was too heavy for a quad, or at least the quad he had tried. The other thing was they hung it from the hexacopter with fishing line because with the hexacopter so high up people didn't hear the motors when the reaper crept up on them. My testing with my 450 size quadcopter with good motors proved they can't lift much. One of my 6400 mAh 3S (+500 gram) batteries is too much. My hexacopter lifts two of the same batteries easily. So you need to make the reaper super light weight or use a hexacopter like he did. I am not up for risking my hexacopter on flying a reaper, but maybe building a cheap clone with cheap hobby king parts just to fly scary stuff would be fun. Buy my home theater system so I can finance this project.
