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FFD - Flying Flotation Device

A proposal has been put forth to build amultiple  uses.
small floatable UAV Unmanned Aerical Vehicle
concept to save drowning victims. The FFD -A big version could be built for Navy Ship
Flying Flotation Device as we call it, wouldRescue or downed pilot, or multiple victims
be flown out to those in need and they wouldin floods. A very small will be built for the
use it as a way to keep from drowning untilbeach rescue, which would be low-cost as to
rescue  personnel  could  come and help them.not  over  burden  city  lifeguard  budgets.
So far we have put a model together puffyIt would not be a bad idea for Navy Seal
design with model airplane engine to see howExtraction not a bad idea either, these
steer able it is, the aerodynamic issuesthings fly to the beach, the Navy Seal folds
appear to be the easiest part and not athe wings back and now it is a water
problem. All the other components arepropulsion device? Many thoughts and endless
available, GPS, servos, chip, canisterapplications really, some might say even
inflation used on Navy Seal rafts once itanother component in the net-centric
gets there. This will be a complete lifebattlespace. But the commercial applications
saver  in  military  or  civilian  use.as well are completely endless. We have been
getting some flack from the flotation
We have even gone so far as to design aindustry, they do not like it, as they feel
pusher version, which can work in the waterthreatened? Not our problem, it is
and the victim can use it to get back topotentially  a  much  better  mousetrap.
shore, by holding a big red button. We will
need larger propeller but that is about itIn the future we will no doubtedly see these
really. The victims could simply use it to goFFDs saving the lives of drowning victims, as
about 1/2 mile in the water before batteryit is a killer application for small scale
was caput. Would like to base it on thelightweight, cheap to build and easy to fly
design of the Skylark UAV survelliance plane,Unmanned Aerial Vehicle technologies. Think
but with folding wings and scalable, foron this.



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