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NASA's 10-engine electric UAV

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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2015-05-02 08:54
    It is hot in Kaohsiung. I could use one of these for a window fan. It is a scale model, right?

    Having vertical lift in the tail actually makes a lot of good sense --- easier to stabilize transistions. The video is excellent and informative. All that orange yarn visually indicates when the wings transistion from turbulent to laminar air flow and begin to provide lift.
  • xanaduxanadu Posts: 3,347
    edited 2015-05-02 09:51
    Drooling... when does the HobbyKing version come out?
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2015-05-02 10:56
    What LiPo does that have?

    With the wingspan, they can stick a couple of solar panels on there.
  • Ron CzapalaRon Czapala Posts: 2,418
    edited 2015-05-06 06:22
    http://www.cnet.com/news/watch-nasas-greased-lightning-aerocopter-heliplane-take-off-and-fly/#ftag=YHF65cbda0

    If you were an observer at a military base about two hours away from NASA's research center at Langley, Va., recently, those are questions that would easily have come to mind. That's where a team of NASA researchers launched a test flight of Greased Lightning (or less sexily, GL-10), an electrically powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that has eight propellers along its 10-foot (3-meter) wingspan and another two on its tail
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2015-05-06 12:12
    Not to sound bitter; but I wonder what they'd come up with if they were SELF FUNDED like all of us are???
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