Recent content by Tobin

Our experience with the blade guards is that they are fine for protecting the blades, but nearly useless for protecting people. Here's a good example ->

Thanks Mani. Maximum range is 200 meters, although we quote 150 meters in the specs, as it gets much less reliable above that. Our experience is that we do almost all of our manual control flying within 50 meters and pre-programmed missions work better for going bigger (Snap can go out to over...

The P3 can work for people who don't mind the lack of portability and safety issues. Specifically for the follow me shots, we found open blades on the P3 to be a challenge - we didn't feel comfortable having a product that could severely injure someone flying without a pilot.

Hey there - I'm a co-founder at Vantage and did the design on those prop guards. The prop guards are in fact stabilized with many thin wires as you say taddessi - 0.012" tempered high carbon steel wire to be precise. They form what is known as a tensegrity structure - basically a form in which...