Jeez, don't be giving Cyrus the Great (or whoever the current Persian Emperor is) any ideas.
From PetaPixel, May 9:
A photographer and content creator has set the world record for the fastest drone flight after his custom-made aircraft achieved a staggering 298.47 miles per hour (480.2 kilometers per hour).
Guinness confirmed the record noting that Luke Maximo Bell and his father Mike achieved the “fastest ground speed by a battery-powered remote-controlled (RC) quadcopter.”
Luke, who has previously turned his GoPro into a tennis ball, describes it as the most “frustrating and difficult project” he has ever worked on after months of working on prototypes that frequently caught fire....
....MUCH MORE including vid., pictures of burning drones etc.
Okay, I think we're good (for a while) on the high-speed slaughterbot front. See, if interested:
- "Iraqi Prime Minister escapes assassination attempt after explosive-laden drone targets his house"
- "Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready"
- "Meet the future weapon of mass destruction, the drone swarm"
- "Autonomous 'Slaughterbot' Drones Reportedly Attack Libyans Using Facial Recognition Tech"
