USS Enterprise Finally Flies

apetime writes "Found on Slashdot Japan: Model builder Kaname of Kumamoto, Japan has built a flying radio controlled model of the original Star Trek's USS Enterprise. (Scroll to the bottom of the page for a video. Or go here for an mpeg, and here for a WMV.) The ship measures from 75 cm, and only weighs 16 grams. It's a wobbly flight, but makes you think what else in Star Trek might work if it were tried."

Comments

big, fat clue:

[k4rm4_p0l7c3]

Uhm. I'm sure the USS Enterprise was designed to fly in a vacuum; you know.. cause.. space is a vacuum.

*ahem*

flying in the vacum

[bsDaemon]

is it real flying if it is not a function of lift versus gravity? You can't have lift in the vacum, so is it actually flying?

Hrmm

[acehole]

Should'nt Star Trek have its own icon?

Starwars does...

Re:Propellor?

[Glonoinha]

-It's a demonstration of how you can make even a brick fly with the right thrust to weight ratio.

See also : F4 Phantom. That's the joke used when talking about that plane : that it is proof that with big enough engines even a brick will fly.

RIP the F4 Phantom. You were the most beautiful ugly plane I ever saw.

Re:Propellor?

[56ksucks]

The thing is, the "REAL" Enterprise wouldn't really "fly". In many episodes when the Enterprise is getting too close to a planet's atmosphere there is a danger of crashing and burning in the atmosphere. The only reason it's "Flying" is because there is no gravity in space and no ground to fall on. So the idea that other star trek technologies might work because this works is silly because on Star Trek this wouldn't even work.