As a "seasoned" winter driver in Illinois, I've learned that keeping the essentials in my car can mean the difference between a stress-free, safe journey and a dangerous, miserable one.
Rockford has hosted hundreds and hundreds of Easter egg hunts over the years, from "The Undertaker" and his world-record setting amount of Easter eggs a few years ago, to church egg hunts, and the traditional backyard egg hunts. Occasionally, those egg-gathering parties have had to deal with Mother Nature--but usually in the form of rain.
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a piece called "Mother Nature Just Doesn't Like Drones."
In that piece, I included a video of a guy's quadcopter drone being attacked and knocked out of the sky by an angry hawk. Someone who read that piece then sent me a video of an angry ram head-butting another drone to the ground...
Christopher Schmidt has a quadcopter UAV, or drone, equipped with a GoPro camera. A few days ago, he was flying it over a beach when...well, I'll let him explain:
On Oct 8th, I was flying my quadcopter at Magazine Beach Park in Cambridge, when a hawk decided he wasn't too happy with my invasion of his airspace...
As ...