Originally Posted by
GaryShainberg
I love the nano and would love to get my hands on one to play with.
The problem is that they are sooooolight that any breeze or wind and they are hard to keep in the air.
A few experiments have already been done and there is some discussion about drones for SAR. However, bad things don't usually happen on good days, so the idea that some heath robinson, pick-it-up-and-put-it-in-the-boot little UAV is going to hunt for missing people below cliff-tops or on mountainsides with swirling 40kn winds is ludicrous.
If we end up with strike-capable military UAV being based in the UK in a few years then I can see good exercise value for them moonlighting in SAR.