Project OpenSky Takes Off

Jesrad writes "As was reported two years ago on Slashdot, japanese artists, students and engineers under the lead of Kazuhiko Hachiya have taken upon themselves to build a real-size, fully functional Mehve (japanese website), the small jet-powered glider flying wing ridden by anime heroin Nausicaa. They have made a lot of progress, and are now test-flying the full scale, yet unpowered model by tow-launching it along with its thrilled pilot. They're having a lot of fun, too, judging from the movies of the testing sessions."

Comments

whatever floats your boat... or glider-type-thingy

[vinsanity1]

seems like an awful lot of time, effort, and money being wasted on something so insignificant and probably useless...
i say good on 'em!
Good luck guys.

The roll bar

[woksta]

that thing looks really dangerous, there is no roll bar and the pilot is totally exposed. Any kind of crash and that guy is dead.

tell me when they get Zefram Cochrane's ship made.

[plasmacutter]

Booooring.. now when they replicate a fully functional version of Zefram Cochrane's ship from star trek, the phoenix