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Phantom 3: First Flight

August 27, 2015
drone, phantom, photography, toys, video

First Flight @ Home

So, I got a chance to take the Phantom 3 out before the sun went completely down and took a quick video from about 225 feet over the house and a bunch of photos at varying heights … Not a cinematic masterpiece by any means or stretch of the word, but hell, the damn thing didn’t fall either. The photos have not been edited, only resized for the web, the video was not modified other than fade in/out and the title.

Now I need to learn to fly it more ‘smoothly’ and get some better video going

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John Hoke

Cyber Security Professional, Photographer, Coffee Junkie, Mac Addict, Craft Beer & Whiskey connoisseur, all around curmudgeon and generally sarcastic SOB - Not necessarily in that order. The opinions expressed on this blog are mine alone and not those of my employer, family, pets, the voices in my head, or anyone else for that matter ... hell in an hour they may not be mine either :-)