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Drone Over Mt Everest. (Original Post)
Jacson6
Yesterday
OP
I thought the air was too thin at that altitude for a prop driven drone to work.
Fil1957
Yesterday
#6
How do you keep the batteries powering that thing from freezing on the way up?
LudwigPastorius
23 hrs ago
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Emile
(43,232 posts)1. Dude, that is one high drone.
patphil
(9,219 posts)2. Drones have transformed the way we view the earth.
Fantastic, beautiful, awe inspiring!
Maninacan
(337 posts)3. Drone shot
Can always tell drone shots in Movies. Gotta be way better than Copter or Crane.
Biophilic
(6,673 posts)4. My jaw has dropped open. Wow, oh, wow.
BaronChocula
(4,736 posts)5. Into Thinner Air
Amazing
Fil1957
(872 posts)6. I thought the air was too thin at that altitude for a prop driven drone to work.
LudwigPastorius
(14,989 posts)7. How do you keep the batteries powering that thing from freezing on the way up?
msongs
(74,165 posts)8. dont see the crowd of hundreds usually lined up waiting to summit. nt
vanamonde
(245 posts)9. My first thought as well.
Plus agree with others about battery capacity at those temperatures and rotor efficiency at that altitude.