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I have long dreamed of flight, to slip

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the surirly bonds of earth and tumble unfettered amongst the clouds, to gaze

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upon the earth as an angel or an albatross. To ascend into the frosty

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windswept glory of altitude. But despite my many attempts to gain access to the

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wheeling and whirling eddies of the atmosphere,

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I have always ended up grounded.

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Which is why when the PowerUp FPV arrived in the mail, I was beside

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myself. With its mounted Wi-Fi camera

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and Google Cardboard support, it claims

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to let you experience flight as if

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sitting in the cockpit of your very own paper airplane. At last, my chance to

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soar. Or so I hoped.

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Expectations were high opening the box. I couldn't wait to tear it open and

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start building my very own paper drone. They have a video tutorial that covers

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how to properly fold it. And the process

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wasn't overly difficult with a decent stack of sheets provided to allow for

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mistakes. So in no time at all, the drone was folded and ready to fly.

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Unfortunately, this is where we hit our first major setback. You see, I live in

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the Pacific Northwest, and the drone is not advertised as being waterproof.

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Once the skies cleared though, we downloaded the app, charged the drone,

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and set off to a nearby field to at last

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experience the joy of flight. Unfortunately, Tyler and his camera

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operator, being the inexperienced pilots that they are, didn't have a lot of luck

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with it. After fine-tuning their plane by moving the wing support bar back and

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adjusting the elevators, I didn't have any trouble getting it into the air. But

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it was still a pretty disappointing experience

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because it flies like a plane and not

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like a quadcopter. And because turning

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is handled by slowing one of the two

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propellers at the back of the skeleton, its turning radius is very wide if you

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don't want to lose a lot of altitude since you've basically only got one

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motor running, which means not as much lift for the air foil. So the FPV can

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only be used in wide open spaces. I

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would also recommend avoiding anything but soft terrain. The FPV doesn't land

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so much as it crashes gently and

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anything firmer than a bed of soft grass can potentially break the propeller.

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Though I will give them credit for including some extras in the box. It

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boasts a 20inut battery life, but from

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my experience, admittedly on a somewhat chilly day, the actual time spent in the

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air will probably be significantly less than that. After a pre-flight video

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check, a false start and some adjustments, a minute or so in the air,

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and then 10 minutes of following the, by the way, very helpful loud beeping noise

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that it makes when it crashes through some blackberry bushes into the bank of

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a nearby stream. I was initially pleased

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to discover I still had 60% battery left. Great, let's go again. And as soon

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as I launched, it dropped to 45%. Then seconds later, the low battery alert cut

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the motors, forcing me to land. But

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what's it like soaring through the air? Does it let you experience flight as if

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you were sitting in the cockpit of your very own paper airplane?

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I guess so. if the cockpit of your very own paper airplane is streamed over an

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ISDN connection with Vaseline smeared on the glass. This is actually my first

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firsterson flying experience in VR. And

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while the setup is simple and the like

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where you look is where you go controls

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work great provided you don't lean over too far. The app connectivity is flaky

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at best, and the choppy, poor quality

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video feed makes it quite difficult to orient yourself, making crashes

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pretty much inevitable. Though, all of this wouldn't really be that much of an

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issue if the PowerUp FPV was a budget

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entry in the market. It's not like while

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it's in the air, it's not genuinely pretty cool. And I'd be okay shelling

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out 20 or maybe even like 50 bucks for a

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novelty item that I'll get a few hours of use out of before I crash landed in

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the street and it gets run over by a car. But this drone is being sold at a

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retail price of $200 and I can get way

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more airborne entertainment for that kind of money. These battle drones we

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featured on Channel Super Fun are two for 60 and a total blast building and

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crashing them together. So, I guess the bottom line then is this. For its cost

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and considering the plethora of other options on the market for flying toys

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right now, from cheap units to expensive high-end quadcopters, I'm just not

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