helicopter
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Will Do a ‘Wiggle’ Test After Fatal Malfunction
It’s been a week since NASA announced the end of its Mars helicopter mission, and we’re still not over losing our beloved Ginny. But apparently, neither is NASA, as the space agency is still trying to figure out what happened during Ingenuity’s last flight on Mars. During a livestream held on Wednesday to pay tribute…
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Australia’s ‘Most Efficient Air Taxi’ Completes its Maiden Test Flight
The Vertiia eVTOL comes with the claim of zero carbon emissions and the ability to carry a pilot and four passengers.
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Maple Seeds Inspired This Lightweight Low-Power Microdrone That Can Fly For Almost Half an Hour
Although humans can fly with the help of copious engineering, Mother Nature has already come up with much simpler ways to soar, like the way a maple tree’s spinning seeds scatter by floating on the wind like unpowered helicopters. It’s a beautifully efficient design, and one that inspired this similarly lightweight drone that can even…
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This Working Quadcopter Drone Was Built Using Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-Year-Old Sketches
Leonardo da Vinci is best known for works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but what you might not know is that in the 1480s — hundreds of years before the first flight — the polymath sketched a design for an aircraft. Lacking the right materials, da Vinci never built or tested the…