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I'd say that you shouldn't create this topic manually as @ahendrix says in the comments of your question. As your question #q286063 shows, you're getting

Getting AR.Drone version ...

repeated which may mean that you're not connected to the drone. Manually creating the /ardrone/takeoff topic won't do anything useful.

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