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Combined Hovercraft and Helicopter
An anonymous reader writes "Has British engineer Geoff Hatton brought us the best of two worlds with his UFO-looking machine? The US military thinks so and are investing in it. The design is sturdy (as opposed to a helicopter) and can fly high (as opposed to a hovercraft). It is based on the Coanda Effect."
I like the story about penguins on a treadmill more.
I need a sig.
Now we have our own device to abduct aliens from their homeworlds.
~Vexed and loving it!
It just won't seem real to me until it fires laserbeams from its undercarriage at passing motorists and pedestrians while the words "De-stroy! De-stroy!" are chanted from its external loudspeaker system. If its targets all looked 50's retro, that would help too.
For a new breed of modern warfare. Simply fill the device with eels...
that the military is only interested in surveillance of VERY LOUD PEOPLE. That thing shrieks...
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
I think hovercopter beats helicraft, but that's just me.
This is the NFL, which stands for "Not For Long" if you keep making those bulls*** calls.
So what you are saying is that we need to build a new super shotgun that shoots wet wads of toilet paper ? ;)
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