Recent content by Cuervo

We know each other well enough, sharing the same water source (a spring at my place which he pumps water uphill from). He thought I was just a dumb hippy when I first got here and is a little unnerved to realize I've got it on the ball and am far more accomplished with trade and technical skills...

It was a split second pass, barely caught on the video. I'd have to create a video account to put it up and I'm not into it that much. If I ever get a really decent encounter on video you can be assured I'll go to the effort putting it up, and thanks!

Playing dumb has become a handy way of avoiding accountability, and a form of performance art...

I'm his first line of defense, they'll have to swarm past me up the ravine to get to his place. Of greater concern are the stump jumpers.

There's an emplacement just above me on the mountain, a well known about town 'prepper' with more conspiracy theories than late night on the internet... He's also well armed, to the point of being scarily armed. The day he caught on I was flying a drone above the place was occasion to fire off a...

Had my first near miss yesterday, flew the bird straight up to altitude looking for wildfire smoke. Panned around, seeing nothing; then started bringing it down without paying much attention to the screen. Casually glanced upwards at around 100 feet when it could be clearly heard... just in time...

It's July 19th!

Are you going to fly over water?

As a resident of the neck of the woods these shots are from I will offer as feedback that I don't appreciate the harassment of elk herds and marine mammals. Neither do many others who live here along the Oregon coast and inland at the elk viewing ares and Cascade lakes. Actions such as these are...

Generally speaking the harassment of elk herds and seals is frowned upon. I recognize several places in the video, being from the same stretch of Oregon coast as a number of these scenes were shot from. I'm glad I watched the video, though more from a forensic point of view.

Today is the day I replaced props! Experimenting with a novel set of floats (more artistic than functional) when things went haywire and the bird sat down hard on the beach gravel. Chipped the tips of the pops on one rear set. Attaching a set of old glass fishing net floats with sticky tape...

Find out who the owner is and tell him you turned it in to the NPS at Crater Lake. Then get it up and running and don't fly it where you aren't supposed to. Expect no mercy... ;)

Did you notice a 'Cold Battery Warning' when you flew the second battery? 28 degrees Fahrenheit is pretty cold, if the spare battery was outside long enough it would drop well below the warning temperature. I used to keep the spare batteries in the truck, overnight temps got down into the mid...

Quite possibly. In 10 or 12 years when drones have become as ubiquitous as smart phones and swarm the skies like clouds of mosquitos this vintage bit of apparel will fetch 5 or 6 times it's current market value.