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Drone Empennage To Steer Trailing Visual Element

Visual element trailing behind drone can be steered easily.

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The trailing ribbon or light string has movable air foils that can steer the trailing end of the element to allow easy re-configuring of that element during flight. For instance a drone flying horizontally can have the trailing element move in any direction, up, down, left or right to allow more possibilities for the artists choreographing the visual sky show.

—	doctorremulac3, Dec 23 2016

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Moveable how? Cable controlled with servo motors? Hydraulics? Voodoo?

—	normzone, Dec 23 2016

If voodoo doesn't work, wires or RF signals.

—	doctorremulac3, Dec 23 2016

A drone's empennage is currently a fold-up, detachable, single use affair. Presumably this helps with the freefall to Earth after mating, which is currently uncontrolled due to paralysis of the poor old bee, by remaining attached and providing a full autopilot to a desirable landing spot. Perhaps a little bee-sized parachute would suffice?

—	TomP, Dec 23 2016

I think that that poor old hobgoblin physics is going to lead to drones the size of Sikorskys towing complex ribbons the size of surfboards.

—	normzone, Dec 23 2016

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