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The elation of flying is the stuff of dreams. But what if personal drones could make our dreams come true? The Economist's resident cartoonist KAL lets his imagination fly.
we had a big blow up over them here - because I was the one out in my yard when my neighbor busted his new toy out and it was flying right over my back yard in line with my upstairs windows. NOPE I didn't let that stand - and engaged the community on the topic. The die hard libs - no joke - were the...
we had a big blow up over them here - because I was the one out in my yard when my neighbor busted his new toy out and it was flying right over my back yard in line with my upstairs windows. NOPE I didn't let that stand - and engaged the community on the topic. The die hard libs - no joke - were the ones who said, you can fly over my house and get pictures I wish you would - while the rest of us said - keep that thing to yourself. Problem is - flying high enough to get one neighbor's lot is high enough to see what the guy next door is doing in his back yard. I was very nice about my approach but sent out the federal laws about drones and other laws - to the neighborhood. We haven't seen hide or hair of that drone since. ha
Today, I wouldn't fly a drone over my neighbors without permission.
But when we had a picture of our house taken by a drone, all of our neighbors asked why we didn't take pics of the...