Breaking News! UFO spotted by multiple witnesses flying a 'World Knows Trump Won' flag over New York City!
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It's not that hard to do with a big drone style octocopter... the kind you'll find hauling around big cinema rigs.
If you made it with ducted props, you could essentially re-create the 50's era military "UFO" style craft that never made it out of the experimental stages...
http://www.ufo-contact.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/USAF-Saucer-Craft.jpeg
But making one these days, with modern motors and flight controllers, it could actually fly.
...enough to actually do this in real life... it would go viral instantly.
Once it's up and running you could pre-program it to fly at any height, at any speed, following any course you told it to completely autonomously
EDIT: like this: https://youtu.be/djuv0Lrd9kQ
...but with 8 arms instead of 4 and then a big UFO shaped shell/body over the whole thing...
it would look like a UFO but there's nothing you can do about the sound.
you don't even have to, they make flight controllers that are pretty much plug-n-play these days.
you might have to get with someone who knows their stuff and has an old build of the flight controller software that doesn't require it to download no-flight bubbles into the flight controller before takeoff.
motors, blades, ESC's, an all in one flight controller, and some big batteries...
if you're serious about it PM me i can tell you all i know to get you started.
at this point you're talking a custom rig, so all the pre-mades and kits are out...
to do it right you want a real deal dual stick controller with a minimum of 12 buttons/switches and a matching receiver.
the last one i built was using a frsky tarranis TX/RX pair and a pixhawk flight controller... that combo supports just about anything you want to do with this thing all the way up to octocopters
if you do build this you're going to need retractable landing gear... you can't belly land something like this that would be in this shape...
well, let me rephrase that... you could belly land it, but you'd have a hell of a time taking off... you'd pretty much have to punch it and pray.
if anyone reads this and has at least 3k to blow on a prank let me know in PM's and i'll help design it. lol.