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Liquid Hydrogen UAV
From the same company that brought you the Wasp MAV, Aerovironment announced yesterday that they have successfully completed the world's first liquid hydrogen powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight tests. From the press release: " AeroVironment's Global Observer High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) platform will be able to operate at 65,000 feet for over a week with a flexible payload-carrying capacity of up to 1,000 pounds." Applications include government and military surveillance operations, communication relays, and the potential for persistent real-time imagery of wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. More pictures here.
Applications include government and military surveillance operations, communication relays, and the potential for persistent real-time imagery of wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters.
You forgot Gate Recon!!!
Hover over a nude beach and take hi-res pictures. It's every /.er's dream!
Visualize Whirled P.'s
hm.....with all of that hydrogen on board,
more like,
Is this a bomb??
Oh the humanity!
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Is it painted with an aluminium based paint on a canvas substrate?
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
Big deal! I took my kid to the circus the other day and got him a gas helium Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for free. They just handed it to him on a string, we untied the bottom, and whoosh! . . . it took off and flew all by itself.
Judging by the array of little props on the leading edge of the wing, this UAV is probably Hydrogen Fuel-Cell powered.
However, if I recall, Hydrogen Fuel Cells, which produce water as a by-product would actually contribute to ozone depletion because water acts like a greenhouse-gas at altitudes over ~27,000ft.
Luckily, these little things probably don't produce all that much water. - Unless they build one each to spy on everyone in the world!
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Nah! If I can just get my rubber powered balsa prototypes to scale up I'll have 'em beat.
KFG
Saddam did a good job of bluffing that he had WMD, the possibility existed and still could be. Back in the Kuwait War, Iraq send their planes to Iran, could it be possible WMD's were also sent? Yes.
Bush said Iraq harbors terrorists, at first I didn't beleive him, but now I do. given how Iraqi's are blowing up their own people.
In either case, I rather be fighting the terrorists on their soil instead of ours THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Some people just block September 11th 2001 out of their minds.
When we have killed off a substancial portion of the middle easts radical young males and built up legitiment forces to do their battles and keep their young dumb and full of cum males in line. Our troops will come home and we can live in peace.
People who are against the war need to get punked down like the little weak minded fools they are.
Well you don't really have to hook the solar panels up to anything...
So, if I understand you, you wanna rice out this UAV, but in a geek way? Oh the humanity.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
It's better to say that UAV stands for "Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle." That way you can't just get a woman pilot and pocket the DARPA dollars.
I thought UAV meant Urban Assault Vehicle - I was expecting to see some tricked out mini-van!?!