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To: TobagoJack who wrote (130476)	2/15/2017 6:54:49 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217544

dot 11 suasnews.com Chinese one thousand drone swarm smashes Intel record. 13 February 2017 Russia Today has posted video of a 1000 drone swarm. I’m still busy trying to count them. GhostDrone 2’s by eHang were the platform used. The quadcopters destroyed the previous swarm record of 500 drones flown by Intel last year. It also diminishes somewhat Lady Gaga’s 300 from the Super Bowl. The formation was not as dynamic as those from Ascending Technologies but is still quite amazing. In the 15-minute show they formed the Chinese character “?,” which means blessings; the map of China and 1000 to let us know how many of them there were. Traditionally, the Chinese celebrate the end of the new year, which takes place on the 15th day of the first lunar month, with a lantern festival. The southern city Guangzhou went for drones instead this year. The Guinness Book of records had people on hand to award eHang the record. A top achievement eHang and certainly one way of keeping to keep up with that other big Chinese brand. Just how much is going with RPAS in China that we never hear of in the West! eHang are of course the company slated to bring us Uber-style drone taxis. The E-184 has become the media poster boy for manned multi rotors or flying car as most pundits would have it. <div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.15%"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F8shiw6zY_A?ecver=2" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" width="641" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> youtu.be I know it is an octocopter so should survive an engine failure but my helicopter drivers head would still like to be able to autorotate! I suspect airbags and a parachute are standard equipment. Should you be looking eHang, I am a helicopter driver and would love to come and have a go! I suspect that might involve a diet on my part (no bad thing).

To: TobagoJack who wrote (130476)	2/15/2017 8:52:47 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Recommended By bart13 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217544

Donald Trump can make a splash with new programs at NASA — only if he gets a budget authorization from a majority of 435 House members and 100 Senate members. The same goes for his infrastructure program, just like Obama's proposed infrastructure program, and Trump's replacement for ObamaCare, and every other delight Trump wants. So far Congress has not been more inclined to approve these expenditures for Trump than they were for Obama. Many Republicans in the House and Mitch McConnell in the Senate have specifically said they would be seen as hypocrites if they suddenly agreed to spending for Trump they had declined under Obama. Many have told me Trump with solve the problem of Congress refusing to allocate money for his programs by using Twitter to Tweet out nasty-grams about various Republican leaders in Congress. People call this "going over their heads." I'll be amazed if that works! It's a war of wills and different agendas between the Tea Party and the Trump supporters. Charles Koch, who founded and funded the Tea Party, is on the warpath against Trump's spending plans and against Trump's reluctance to cutting Medicare, Social Security, the VA and military pensions. Trump has taken away all of the gains Koch hoped his Tea Party elected representatives would achieve when a Republican took the White House. It's why he shifted virtually all of his contributions in this last political race to state races and refused to back Trump or the Republicans nationally.