Drone to Dutch restaurant crashes and burns

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Drone delivering “first asparagus of the season” to Dutch restaurant crashes and burns

Michelin-starred restaurant De Zwaan wanted to mark the start of the asparagus season earlier this month by getting a consignment of vegetables delivered from farm to kitchen by drone, but the publicity stunt backfired when the UAV crashed and burned on a country road.

Ronald Peijenburg had previously used a variety of novel methods to get the first asparagus of the season to his restaurant in the Dutch town of Etten-Leur, from a Formula 1 car to a hot air balloon, and felt that using a drone would capture the 2015 zeitgeist.

The drone, carrying a metal canister of the precious asparagus stalks, took off without a hitch from the farm and the “pilot” and a TV crew tracked its progress in a following van.

Midway through the journey, the drone had to have a stopover on a quiet lane for a battery change. The landing was a success, but the drone and its cargo crashed and went up in flames on the take-off...

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