Now that’s surprising.

N422BH · Oct 31, 2018

Some law enforcement drones are dropping out of the sky — TechCrunch

DanMan32 · Oct 31, 2018

Might explain some of the possible power issues with the M2.

ryanolivas · Oct 31, 2018

This may be stupid but don't they have some kind of safety measures for this one like a small parachute for drones in case of signal loss.

Chip · Nov 2, 2018

ryanolivas said:
This may be stupid but don't they have some kind of safety measures for this one like a small parachute for drones in case of signal loss.

Yes, Ive seen those for sale. Seems like a neat idea as far as last ditch fail safe but I think there are various downsides to consider including cost, weight, and risk of malfunction causing parachute to deploy in mid flight.

https://www.skycat.pro/

Chip · Nov 2, 2018

I packed a few chutes on high power rockets back in the day. It was considered very high tech then to have drogue chute deploy at apogee and second main chute deploy at low altitude like in this video. The chutes could be deployed in variety of ways including timer, altimeter or inertia switch connected to electric match and black powder charges. Chute deployment (and engine ignition) by radio transmitter was the next new thing. No way was I interested in that, however, because I was afraid some knucklehead would press their garage door opener and blow everything up. A marco polo would have been great to help find rocket which drifted in the boonies but all I had back then was a radio shack buzzer connected to nose cone.

ryanolivas · Nov 4, 2018

Chip said:
Yes, Ive seen those for sale. Seems like a neat idea as far as last ditch fail safe but I think there are various downsides to consider including cost, weight, and risk of malfunction causing parachute to deploy in mid flight.

So I guess they should improve it considering the usefulness of this one.