cyberdad wrote:
I think its reasonable to assume a bird strike but the object in the screen capture looks more like an electric toothbrush than a rotor of a drone
Again, motor
mount - the motor and rotor are
on top of this as your own image and those in my suggested Google searches clearly show.
I doubt the moving rotor blades would show in a video - but the image of the alleged drone, a Mavic Pro, nevertheless shows all blades missing from one motor.
But you'll see from images of the Mavic Pro that the drone part appearing in the video is absolutely nothing like
anything on a Mavic Pro.
Here's the user manual - check out the parts:
https://dl.djicdn.com/downloads/mavic/M ... l+V1.0.pdfAside from the obvious color and design differences, note especially what's labeled as (5) "Landing gear (with built-in antennas)".
As I suggested earlier - Google
dji phantom 3 rotor guards and check the images, then Google
dji mavic pro rotor guards and check those images.
The video looks more like it was taken by a DJI Phantom 3, not a Mavic Pro.
If I might rephrase - "This isn't the drone you're looking at".
It's not beyond the wit of man to create rotors that snap easily or simply disconnect and fall off if obstructed beyond what would be expected for air resistance. I don't know if the Pro behaves like this but as someone who got his finger clipped by the very unyielding propeller of an RC aircraft, that's a feature I think should be present.
And why would there have to be blood? It's enough for a bird to strike the body of a drone to bring it down, and a bird strike on the rotor would be very brief and may not draw blood - especially if the rotors are designed to detach on obstruction.
As I've said, I don't know if those feather-like objects are feathers or leaves - but hey, at least I'm examining what's actually present and clearly visible without reaching for other-worldly suppositions.
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