{"id":5984,"date":"2017-09-22T23:17:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T06:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2017-09-23T07:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T14:19:38","slug":"crazy-train-a-wild-drone-into-under-a-moving-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/22\/crazy-train-a-wild-drone-into-under-a-moving-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Train: A wild drone flight into &#038; under a moving train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tommy played piano like a kid out in the rain<br \/>then he lost his leg in Dallas he was dancin&#8217; with a train<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Man, I thought that my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2017\/06\/22\/mississippi-queen\/\">flying a drone off the back of a boat on the Mississippi<\/a> was risky\u2014but that seems laughably sane compared to\u00a0Paul Nurkkala flying\u00a0his drone flying onto, next to, inside, and under a moving freight train.<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t take the queasy-making camera moves, jump to 3:20 to go underneath &amp; 3:30 to go inside:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nQDcDZ6rmGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PetaPixel <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2017\/09\/22\/guy-flew-camera-drone-onto-inside-moving-train\/?mc_cid=6518254690&amp;mc_eid=53d8d48922\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nurkkala specializes in flying camera drones through a first-person point-of-view using a live feed through goggles. His custom-assembled drone was equipped with a GoPro HERO5 Session action camera, which is light enough to keep the craft fast and nimble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recognize that this isn\u2019t the most \u2018flowy\u2019 video or anything, but all of the things were all in the same flight, so I wanted to show that off,\u201d Nurkkala writes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Madness.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NewImage-26.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"323\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nQDcDZ6rmGE\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy played piano like a kid out in the rainthen he lost his leg in Dallas he was dancin&#8217; with a train\u00a0 Man, I thought that my flying a drone off the back of a boat on the Mississippi was risky\u2014but that seems laughably sane compared to\u00a0Paul Nurkkala flying\u00a0his drone flying onto, next to, inside, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}