>>! Tell your countryfolk to snap out of it. ;-)
They will, John.
While practicing golf shots this weekend at an open field near here, I ran into a geeky hobbyist who was flying a drone that he had made.
He graciously gave me a nice demo .
This little gadget is amazing.
It's about 12"X12" wide and 4" deep.
4 electric motors - one at each corner - have props that spin horizontally.
In this hobbyist version, they run off a battery with a life of about 8 minutes , depending on what it's doing.
The life is longer if it just hovers.
It can soar above a thousand feet and go up to 90MPH at level flight.
It flits around like a hummingbird.
He had it hovering a few feet from us and then, in a flash, it flitted a few hundred yards away and hovered there.
Who knows?
Maybe we'll solve the problem of our decaying roads and bridges by making them obsolete with gadgets like this.
Anyone who does not go overboard- deserves to.
Malcolm Forbes, Sr.