Rotary Razzle-Dazzle

Anyone who has ever tried to fly a remote control airplane knows that it's not nearly as easy as it looks. Many people have discovered that fact at considerable personal expense.

Remote control helicopters are much, much harder. They require a combination of extraordinary manual dexterity, infallible depth perception, and hair-trigger reflexes that most humans quite simply don't possess. They are hideously expensive, highly unstable, extremely twitchy, and notoriously cantankerous. And those are their good qualities. It's more than most people can do just to get them to hover without spinning out of control, much less fly in a straight line, and they can quite literally turn themselves into a thousand-dollar circle of wreckage before you can blink.

Which makes this video one of the single most amazing things I've ever watched. It may take a couple of minutes to download. Just be patient; it's worth the wait.