Saturday, August 23, 2008

Next time something buzzs by you might check that it really is a bug

I friend sent me a couple links about micro flying vecicles. This is amazing - Unmanned aerial vehicle weighs in at 3 grams:

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On Wednesday July 23, a development team at the TU Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands introduced the minute DelFly Micro air vehicle, a variant of an Unmanned Aerial vehicle (UAV). This successor to the DelFly I and II weighs barely 3 grams, and with its flapping wings is very similar to a dragonfly. The DelFly II drew huge attention in 2006 because it could fly horizontally (21 km/hr) as well as hover, just like a hummingbird, and could also fly backwards. The DelFly Micro, incidentally, cannot do this just yet.
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You can find a picture here.

Currently these machines can not fly very long, just a couple minutes. It would be an interesting job to work on. They envision flying this machines into dangerous places.


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