 That was awesome Hey guys, welcome to Rotorat today. We're gonna see if a drone can chase an arrow Missed how'd you miss the barn? It's huge Firefighters pull eight-foot boa constrictor from Claremont residence. There are not only venomous snakes out here They're also boa constrictors. You freaking out. Yeah, it'll be fine. Get some Texas I can't believe you scared of a little Never in the Everglades to be fair, but like we are in the booties one bite for rattlesnakes enough venom to kill 20 grown men 20 men one bite. Yes. How many Alex's you think you can kill like 40 then? Yeah, PV. Yeah, but he's kind of a good spot to fly. Do you like rip it out here? Yeah, it's actually the best Are you hanging out or are you just okay? Cool. Yeah, one of them's trying to scare the rattlesnakes Rattlesnakes. Yeah, should he be worried. Yeah, I told him to be terrified. Yeah. Have you ever seen one? I've never seen one. Yeah, could you tell him that you've only lost one friend? Sure, just one. All right, so I'm setting up everything on the Osmo action. It's actually capable of up to 240 frames per second I think that would make for the most killer shot if we had it filming in slow motion But before we jump straight to that, I think we're gonna go with a 4k at 60 frames per second The thing we're gonna do is pop on an ND filter because it is a Super bright day with the ND filter. We're getting nice blurry background So we're able to see the arrow crisply. So the FPV setup I'm running in here is the DJI system with the Cadix Vista It fits in a really tight narrow frame So we're starting to see the HD systems get even smaller now We're being able to put it in these compact machines which go even faster perform even better for coming from racing Everything happens very very fast or moving through five by five foot gates at 85 90 miles an hour So this is a moving object in open air How hard can it be right? There's no one I trust more to do the most difficult of shots. Do you think we'll be able to chase it? Oh, yeah Have you met the pilot once we can figure out how fast this arrow is gonna be going if we can get that time dry They probably take about three four tries although knowing us at Rotorite. It's gonna take us all day So so we don't know exactly how fast these arrows are gonna be flying. We're gonna try to figure that out We've got a radar gun here. That'll tell us What kind of speeds we need to hit with the drones if we actually want to be able to chase these things So it's 57 that's pretty fast dude. You think you can chase a 57 mile an hour target? Yes, I can Oh 263s 261s and a 57 average is exactly 61 so our five inch drones on four cell five cell and six cell go anywhere from about 60 to 80 miles per hour sometimes a bit faster 80 miles an hour that was not I was half throttle. That was only half 130 Right because we're not supposed to go over 100 miles an hour It's a thing there's definitely a margin of error in this so you're probably only going like 99.5 miles an hour All right, I think so I think it's probably 99 this grass line is our threshold You do not cross this threshold if someone else is holding the bow and you don't draw the bow if anyone is across this Threshold basically the idea is arrows should only fire that way and there should never be anyone that way if there's any Potential for an arrow to be fired. So just trying to keep everything as safe as possible Do you know where the thralls gonna have to be to hold 60? Because I mean pretty consistently 60 miles an hour on the arrow I think I about 40% powers where I'm gonna need to be I'll just tell you when to go go I can't think I got a release later. Yeah, I can't even say this on high quality mode Maybe and that'll help me see better You were way behind I think I need to release it right when you get next to me I don't think you're gonna catch. I'm in high quality mode. Oh I saw I saw they saw it. Yeah, you can't even see it. I was I was on it every single time I just between us. I don't think it's But you try and go frame by frame. We'll see if we can even see this thing Yeah, I don't see it at all. I saw the arrow in my goggles. I can't I mean the target I can't just go to that grassy area instead. Yeah, we can try the grassy area go Go go for it Alright, so we're still having trouble getting the arrow in frame I think the biggest issue is timing Alex is thinking that it's more like a speed issue So he increased the camera angle even more so they can go faster So if I was chasing a very slow moving object you lower the camera angle the faster You have to fly the more you have to tilt the drone forward because that we don't want our camera looking straight down at The ground so we have to angle it up like this in order to be able to chase the moving object So he's got his higher camera angle and we're also going to try having me tell Sean when to fire so that Adding a third person to the equation will somehow reduce their fire I'm at that's in frame for sure. There we go. See that's what I'm saying sooner. I think the timing was good I think that's it fire now There we go there we go there we go there we go there we go. That was a good one. Oh there now I can see it Yeah, it's going up. See I think more camera angle more camera angle. Holy crap. It's going out of frame That is an insane amount of angle. We're definitely gonna want that high frame rate, too We're gonna try some high frame rate now because it's just happening so fast We've raised the frame rate up to 240 that's limiting our resolution to 1080 But with that high frame rate It's gonna allow us to slow down the shot and get more out of it We did have to compensate for the change in exposure though because with that higher frame rate You can't run the same shutter speed we were before so now our shutter speed I've locked it at one five hundredths of a second and I did have to go to a lighter nd So now we're just at nd4. I so it's locked at 100 should be the most beautiful shot ever She's gonna crazy what he's not looking that's a lot That's the shark who a go right? Let's just do it more. Did you give it enough? No, you let's just just try it All right. I'm ready Okay, did you hit record on the camera? Oh, yeah, uh, no, no Way too late it can't it's gonna be a juicy flaker and you're gonna lose side of it. It's one of the top of it Oh my gosh You gotta do that again, holy crap, okay, we gotta do that again That's because I want to see him fire like you gotta not lose it. Just can you fly? Physics work I said you're either gonna a get the launch and miss the rest of it or you're going to miss the launch and get the rest of it It's physically impossible Because the moment you roll you're gonna look at the ground. That's my point because I was with you Oh As good as it's gonna get good job Yeah, I'll admit I was I was probably a pessimist beforehand I didn't think it looked cool. I think it looks cooler than I thought I'll say after seeing Alex do it I don't think I could do it I was thinking I could do it if I had to but Alex would have a better chance of pulling it off now They've actually seen it happen and how many tries it took I don't I don't think there's too many people in the world I could even chase that that's intense. It's like such a small target and it's moving so fast Think we underestimate how difficult it would be and I'm glad we brought Alex. Don't show him this clip We're trying to keep him modest, right best dang drone pilot in the world Trying to be humble