Carbon Flyer — Drone Of The Future

Drones — as you’ve seen on television and movies — all seem to have that quadcopter look to them despite being made by different companies. The Carbon Flyer drone is nothing like that. It resembles a paper airplane you made in grade school, but made out of carbon fiber, and with loads of more goodies that you could attach to it when you were a kid.

The Carbon Flyer is packed with technology. In addition to its super tough carbon fiber airframe, it features an ultra-low drag delta-wing design, allowing for high speeds and superior control; it uses dual high power motors with differential thrust to steer, with no fragile moving parts; it is controlled via long range Bluetooth 4.0 and a smartphone app; it features hot-swappable, rechargeable lithium ion batteries, and it has an onboard camera for taking video while it is flying. In addition, the Carbon Flyer airframe is assembled using carbon nanotube enhanced epoxy which creates bonds stronger than steel welds. It is, in fact, the world’s first mainstream product to utilize this amazing material technology.

Now watch the Carbon Flyer in action:

You can control this drone with your smartphone at a 240 foot range. What’s really impressive — besides all the things it comes with — is the relatively low price you get one for. $129.00 is all it takes to get you flying around in the sky. Compared to other more bulky drones, this sleek and simple design should fit right into what drone enthusiasts are looking for.

As drones become more affordable and ubiquitous in the skies, how long can they stay up there before the Government takes action against them? A man recently landed his drone on the grounds of the White House after he had been drinking. White House officials could’ve easily tried to shoot it down because it could’ve had an explosive attached to it. Their main job is to protect the President, and if they feel that he is at any point in danger, they will shoot.

Imagine being security and having hundreds of these things flying in the air above you. No matter how trained you are, you can only have so much situational awareness. Drones can be sent up quickly and with little preparation. Having something dangerous attached to them could become a really big problem. Do you think a Government could scramble a few jets in time to shoot down a little drone within a few hundred feet from its intended target? Impossible.

Besides the potential Homeland Security problem, there is also the privacy problem. I don’t really want to walk down the street of my city, look up, and see a drone fly over. Drones have cameras on them, and most people don’t like getting their picture taken without their knowledge, let alone being filmed from above.

That all being said, the majority of drone users are harmless. Drones can be used for fun and used for many different things, but the future is sketchy when you have so many of them in the air at once.

Head over to the Carbon Flyer website and pick up one or more of these new drones for a very low price.

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