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Flapping NAV Performs Controlled Hovering Flight
An anonymous reader writes "AeroVironment, Inc. was awarded a Phase II contract extension in April from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design and build a flying prototype for the Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program. As part of this program AV has accomplished a technical milestone never before achieved: the controlled hovering flight of an air vehicle system with two flapping wings (video) that carries its own energy source and uses only the flapping wings for propulsion and control. Two wings for propulsion and control, nothing else."
...their website is being served off of the flapping bird robot, and said robot has crashed.
They can make flapping wing flying robots, but can't make a slashdot proof webserver, meh.
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
Dear engineering community, that's all I've ever wanted from you in life, please make it happen.
This just in, Prototype lost to clock with bacteria digester system.
PETA responded with applause.
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0 comments and it's already slashdotted.
What the hell is this? Who are all the noobs who went off to RTFA?!? Has /. been trolled?
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
it was pretty cool.
There will be hummingbird looking things flying in and out of your nearest neighborhood crime syndicate office monitoring their activities.
Who needs wiretapping now?
Oh, and I think hummingbirds have prior art.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Well, if everyone in slashdot was like me, we all wanted to see if it flaps like a vulture or like a hummingbird before posting...
European vulture, or African?
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
What does this have to do with Norton Anti-Virus?
I was quoted out of context in my autobiography...