Recent content by Rocket

Good luck. Thunderstorms reported all day Friday for most of Illinois and Indiana.

Those are indeed the only three. What's worse is it doesn't list WHICH Plano or Milton on the initial item page--I was a hairsbreadth away from ordering from Plano, ILLINOIS and driving there tomorrow. Milton IL also exists. Terrible website programming. Even the maps only work half the time...

Likely two or less. And BB loves to stock upper-middle class stores first, if not exclusively. I had to have my Solo transferred from a store 50 miles away--the store manager lived near it and was kind enough to get it brought in for me. God forbid you live in the sticks. Can't have the boonies...

Why did you repost your alleged success? It's been ten minutes. And don't count your chickens before they hatch. Also, please don't refer UAS's as "toys". Something as big as a Solo can take out a window or cause a concussion. Be a responsible flyer and fly with permission, especially in areas...

I cannot locate a store in Chicago or Northwest Indiana. On the phone with BB, I had an empathetic service agent tell me that the "available for pickup" was likely triggered due to incoming warehouse inventory that hasn't been distributed yet. He checked some big city zip codes like New York...

According to the three stores I called around Chicagoland, not only are they out online but in all stores in the region (one store claiming it's an online-only item). I still have one on order from 3DR themselves from a week ago, but I'd like it in my hands sooner: I have upcoming gigs to film...

I would recommend just start with the absolute basics--practice taking off and landing a dozen or so times, and then practice something else, like drifting or rotating. ALWAYS start small. No matter how long you've been flying multirotors--the first time with any new unit you're experiencing...

The biggest flaw here with this opinion piece the author wrote is that from the sound of it he's never personally tried the Solo. You can't write a review of a device without testing it first. Yes, the gimbal delay is big, but from what 3DR has been up front about makes sense why they're...

Ha! Great post Op. Yes, I too believe. I can't blame them for holding off. I'd rather have a great product that works than a good product that might develop problems that could have been remedied in beta.

Indeed, the store's rather interesting. They have a conveyor system overhead when you're ready to make a purchase that goes all over the store (and has a really neat way of putting the packages up from behind the counter when you're ready to go!) and you just get into the queue for the checkout...