Owl vs. drone: We test the ultimate flying machines
The DJI Phantom 4 may come filled with a tonne of intelligent flight modes to help you send it soaring over the sky, but what we really care about is how it stacks up in contradiction of Mother Nature’s finest — a barn owl.
In this special video we put beak in contradiction of lens, wings against propellors and feathers against, well, plastic, in a series of challenges to see which flying machine is best suitable to a life in the air.
Can DJI’s research departments outwit millions of years of evolution? Will feathers be peaceful by the drone’s 45 mph top speed? Will I get me face clawed off?
Our thanks to The Feather Folk for rallies us with Foggy the barn owl for this challenge. Our commiserations to DJI for this hard loss.
All participants were paid with mice.
Andrew Hoyle
