Lets think about what is REALLY happening in the private sector,,,

Many people think that you need mad money to run R&D,,, and you might be right.

But not when you are reverse engineering,,, Not really. Of course money DOES help, because things like machine tools and analyzers cost money.

But Then, the internet happened (DARPA creation that escaped,muhahahaha) and things like 3d printers came to be (which was gonna happen after CAD and CNC became ‘normal’.)

And now,,,, (these are all vid links,,, didn’t want to bore you with shit ton of embeds.)

Homemade Guidance systems,,,,

R&D of Impeller systems IN REAL TIME

10000′ with a toy, playin’ in the clouds (go to the 15 minute mark to see how fast a toy can descend,,,, ‘Comin’ in HOT!!!’ I would suggest watching the whole vid to get an idea of just what is happening in the private sector with Drones and FPV tech. Flying is much easier when you can see what is going on ‘on board’.

AND CHEAP, but GOOD, FPV that you can get RIGHT NOW. (if you are considering such, I suggest moving on it right now before Trumped starts slamming the doors on imports. That’s what happened last time when I was getting started in that stuff,,,, Then I found kayaks,,,,)

Guys, Gals, this world is getting more complicated and much smaller, and things are progressing faster than TPTB care for. That my book/ideas, written only 4 years ago, is behind the times/technology is kinda freaky to me. (the only thing in there that was ahead of itself was my ‘use’ of LIDAR, and I can easily see that being put into play as the technology refines itself (Tesla vehicles use it, so you know its going to be getting refined) and gets more compact/reliable.

The guys doing this stuff are not re-inventing the wheel, but they sure as shit are putting some polish on them. Maybe they are finding out the hard way that ‘don’t do it this way’, but they are doing it in a public forum, not hiding their shit behind closed doors and levels of secrecy, and that means that the next guy doesn’t have to make the same mistakes: GROWTH HAPPENS WHEN YOU CAN STUDY THE FUCK UPS WITHOUT SUFFERING THEM. They share the build files for the printers, they offer links to other places and ideas, they don’t hold back: “Can’t stop the signal, Mal”,

Shit like this is why SpaceX is blowing up rockets on a regular basis: You learn more from the failures than you do from the successes, and thats why SpaceX is blowing by ALL of the competitors. And doing so with ZERO loss of life (Could NASA lay claim to that from the early start of the space race???)

FACT IS: and I have stated it many many times here, GOVERNMENT JUST GETS IN THE WAY. The private guy in his garage/basement is gonna come up with more, better, cheaper; than some government funded skunkworks lab with an agenda. I leave the Bradley fighting vehicle as an example of what happens to a great idea when Government gets involved. Counter example is what happens when government says, ‘this is what we have and this is what we want: make it happen’, and that example is the A-10 Warthog. “We have this gun: make a plane around it.” and they stepped away.

3d printers are cheap, not that hard to learn (the basics,, like any machinetool; mastering them is a lifetime effort.) and the feild is in continual growth.

in a nutshell, UTOOB has much more than JUST cute cat videos,,, and to IGNORE THAT is to miss out on a HUGE amount of literally FREE information Well,,, not really FREE,,, they make money on your clicks and someone is buying that information to fund that. BUT, thats the nature of the game these days,,, We can’t always hide under rocks hoping to keep our privacy fully private. Not if we want to live a life.

And on that note

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LOAD (that brainium with more information than you know what to do wtih,,,, IT will figure it out,,,,)