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      I mean, they have drones with saws for cutting tree limbs now. When you have a big problem, start by cutting it into smaller individual problems…

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      DJI FlyCart 30

      I can’t ever take the word perilous seriously.

      Pretty cool, worth the watch. They don’t show the size very well, with arms folded in fits in the back of a pickup. 30 kg with one battery, 40 kg with 2 batteries, hot swap battery, 16 km range, 20 m/s (72 km/h), 6000 m ceiling, record and repeat flight paths.

      Looks like they think the chinese delivery market will be huge.

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    I’m impressed that these drones can operate on Everest, especially carrying a payload. I would assume the air density would be too low for the rotors to generate sufficient lift.

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      I don’t think this will be operating at the peak. But, as the martian helicopter has shown, low air density is just an engineering problem :)

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    Also official: North Korean balloons will carry trash to Everest