"Follow the Leader - Reloaded"

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A Phantom is usually the unsung hero capturing the action behind the scenes, but today the Phantom is the star of the show! Join Phantom 3 Standard "Darth Videous" trailing sister ship "Miss Ruby" on an incredible, 17-minute, 7.2 mile, non-stop, thrill ride as the pair soar high above Baltimore in an epic night version of "Follow the Leader."

The birds are stock & each is running autonomous Litchi flights based on "The Baltimore Run" mission. Chase bird "Darth Videous" is set to start ~25' behind lead bird "Miss Ruby" on point. Waypoints are identical except the chase bird is set +10' at each point to maintain a degree of vertical separation. This mission only needs some slight tweaking of camera angles to get 100% coverage of the lead bird throughout the entire flight.

Note: This flight is 7.2 miles in length with 75 waypoints & near constant altitude changes. Not 100% perfect but it is pretty damned amazing how closely the birds executed this mission.

*Updated with an all-new epic soundtrack!

What the critics are saying:

"Dirty Bird is Public Enemy #1" - James Comey, Director FBI

"Did you see those streaks of light dude?" - Sean Penn, actor, stoner, Communist sympathizer

"Can he please stop mentioning body armor & a fly-over being the only safe way to visit Baltimore?" - Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of Baltimore

"Curses! Foiled again!" - Snydley Whiplash, Canadian criminal, nemesis of Dudley

"It's against the guidelines. You're going to ruin the hobby for everyone!" - Anonymous

"I'm Matt Damon!" - Matt Damon, actor, left-wing wacknut

"They really know how to get high, man!" - Tommy Chong, actor, comedian, stoner, entrepreneur

"Εάν μόνο ήξερα!" ("If only I had known!") - Icarus, son of Daedalus, first recorded attempt at manned flight

"I'll get you Dirty Bird if it's the last thing I do!" - Kavon Williams, career criminal, inadvertently caught on video committing an armed robbery during a test flight

"A few of these contraptions would have changed the outcome of Waterloo. Sacre' bleu!" - Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor, general

"I'm reporting you to the authorities!" - Crash Hancock, blogger, crasher of all things that fly

"Your Litchi missions are poorly edited & boring!" - Bilbo Bender, Wee Gay Dwarf of McHenry Row

"Who is Dirty Bird & who gives a crap?" - Mr. Clean, Product spokesman

"Stay on the leader!" - Darth Vader, Sith Lord

"He's going to ruin my company!" - Frank Wang, DJI CEO

-- Recorded July 13, 2016

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