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Human Powered Paper Airplane

Posted by timothy on from the bad-place-for-a-charleyhorse dept.

gilgsn writes: "The Raven is a honeycomb paper, foam and graphite-fibre tape, human powered airplane designed to beat the current record held by MIT's Daedalus . The plane is also powered by a 16MHz Motorola 68332. The technical specifications of the onboard computer are pretty interesting. Unfortunately, as reported on Ananova, the Raven recently crashed a mere 100 feet after taking off, causing some damage to its fragile structure. Maybe they could upgrade to a Pentium and convinced Lance Armstrong to give it a try..."

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  1. website by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I hope they are better at designing the plane than they are at designing the website...what a piece of shit.

    All I wanted was to see a picture (or two), of the complete airplane ...not too much to ask for in a website, right? Wrong.

    The 'tour' is a tour of nothing. The 'photobase' has no index whatsoever (I'm supposed to read the designers mind to come up with a 'search' word?), and the actual photos, (when you finally find them) are thumbnails. When you click on the thumbnail for a larger image, you are instead taken back to the original photobase search page.
    I'll reiterate, what a load of shit.

    I guess they shot their intellectual 'wad' designing the logo.