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19-02-11, 01:07 PM
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Hummingbird aircraft
This is fascinating! I always wondered when they would come up with a replication of this amazing way of flying and by jiminy they've done it! Taken them five years and a hell of a lot of work but just think of the stuff that will be engineered in the future with the know-how they've acquired with this little beauty!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12513315 Bit more here: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/on...-by-flapp.html Last edited by missyburd; 19-02-11 at 01:11 PM. |
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19-02-11, 01:13 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
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Re: Hummingbird aircraft
Wow!! Coooooooooooooooooooool!
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19-02-11, 03:31 PM
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Re: Hummingbird aircraft
It's an ornithopter, like in Dune!
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19-02-11, 03:49 PM
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Re: Hummingbird aircraft
Cool eh
 I quite fancy building a model multirotor like they had in avatar.
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