Shiver
October 28th 05, 12:35 AM
That's right..... Your fired.
Pack up your bags and scram.
Your no longer needed.
R-Max is on it's way to replace you.
Lighter, smaller, newer.
Never complains, needs no food, never goes to the toilet.
No beer or hangar talk at the end of a day.
Knows exactly where it's at all the time.
No more hitting wires.
Hard to believe but technology is catching up with the AG flying biz.
Yamaha is about to replace you.
Just saw a demo on a national science type program here in Canada.
About ten feet long, with a liquid cooled 250 CC engine.
GPS controled it can be set on auto pilot from take off to landing.
It will alway fly the right course down to the inch.
Start it up, clip on a (small) one or two gallon tank of AG spray, and
away it goes. It knows exactly where to go to take up where it left
off.
When empty it flies back to the nurse station and within seconds the
empty tank is pulled off and a full tank snapped in place.
A little pricey at a million dollars, but at the end of a day you can
drive it home on the back of a pick up or small flat bed and maintain
it in the comforts of your own garage.
Cheap on fuel, the fuel tank looks like it holds three gallons.
And if you think that it will take a while to catch on, according to
the article Yamaha has already sold over two thousand of them.
They can knock one off the assembly line in a matter of days.
Yikes...... The wave of the future is here.
So pack up the bags Rocky.
We feel your pain, but your about to be replaced by a robot name R-Max.
Obviously the military and civilian agencies are looking at it.
It can hover or circle or follow a programmed track over the dirtiest
of locations and send back info instantly by telemetry.
They have demonstrated it following suspects trying to escape
detection, so law enforcement might be interested.
Pack up your bags and scram.
Your no longer needed.
R-Max is on it's way to replace you.
Lighter, smaller, newer.
Never complains, needs no food, never goes to the toilet.
No beer or hangar talk at the end of a day.
Knows exactly where it's at all the time.
No more hitting wires.
Hard to believe but technology is catching up with the AG flying biz.
Yamaha is about to replace you.
Just saw a demo on a national science type program here in Canada.
About ten feet long, with a liquid cooled 250 CC engine.
GPS controled it can be set on auto pilot from take off to landing.
It will alway fly the right course down to the inch.
Start it up, clip on a (small) one or two gallon tank of AG spray, and
away it goes. It knows exactly where to go to take up where it left
off.
When empty it flies back to the nurse station and within seconds the
empty tank is pulled off and a full tank snapped in place.
A little pricey at a million dollars, but at the end of a day you can
drive it home on the back of a pick up or small flat bed and maintain
it in the comforts of your own garage.
Cheap on fuel, the fuel tank looks like it holds three gallons.
And if you think that it will take a while to catch on, according to
the article Yamaha has already sold over two thousand of them.
They can knock one off the assembly line in a matter of days.
Yikes...... The wave of the future is here.
So pack up the bags Rocky.
We feel your pain, but your about to be replaced by a robot name R-Max.
Obviously the military and civilian agencies are looking at it.
It can hover or circle or follow a programmed track over the dirtiest
of locations and send back info instantly by telemetry.
They have demonstrated it following suspects trying to escape
detection, so law enforcement might be interested.