Seven US Marines were killed last night at the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, when their helicopters collided in mid-air around 8pm. They were training for deployment to Afghanistan, according to USMC spokeswoman 1st Lt Maureen Dooley.
A helicopter’s rotor design may allow for vertical takeoffs but that comes at a price — the backwards moving blade counteracts the helicopter’s forward momentum, causing it to stall at high speeds. But one German firm believes that outfitting the blades with bumps inspired by the fins of humpback whales.
The F-22 may have not been a resounding success, but this video gives a good idea of the power of the US Air Force, complete with some pseudo-Wagner(ish) music that makes me want to invade Poland
How can you make an autonomous helicopter cooler? By teaching it to land by itself on a moving platform, that’s how.
It’s Polish Independence Day, and like in any other country, the youngins love celebrating their country’s liberty by destroying parts of it. “Youths” butted heads with (and threw things at) riot cops in Warsaw. Check out the view from above.
Helicopters are incredibly difficult to pilot and even tougher to build from scratch — yet these tinkerers were able to construct their own whirly birds and even fly them. Our friends at Oobject.com have assembled nine of the best homemade choppers.
The One Laptop Per Child project has had a long, noble, bumpy road. The dream of getting computers into every small third-world hand hasn’t arrived yet, but now there’s a new plan: toss ‘em out of helicopters.
