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• bcsizemo commented on Nano Air Vehicle takes flight
  Well I think we have a LONG ways to go, and that DARPA goal is extremely lofty, but progress is being made. In my mind the end goal is not what the scientists/engineers/designers are after. It's the development of the technology along the way. Similar to NASA and how we use spin offs of their tech creations everyday. The rational side of me just looks at these things and goes meh. I guess I still think "war" should be about destruction and force....
• Ugly Canuck commented on Nano Air Vehicle takes flight
  Meh...some have said it already, I'm no parrot: http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2009/08/weapon-of-week-fad-century-ago-dd-did.html...
• Brainspore commented on Nano Air Vehicle takes flight
  ackpht #32: The rest of you who think this is some kind of joke, it is not. A lot of time and $ are being spent to get this technology where it needs to go. A lot of time and money has been spent on lots of things that never showed any efficacy. This hover-doohickey may be a technological marvel, but as a functional object it is a joke that can't compete with a toy helicopter. My guess is that some engineers really wanted to see if they could build a drone that could fly with flapping wings, and the...
• Axx commented on Nano Air Vehicle takes flight
  >What exactly is this a nano of? > >Is there something out there that is 10^9 larger >that this is a smaller version of? That would be a >pretty damn big flappy helicoptor thing (~75,000 >km) > >now let's work in biotech, superconducting, >buckyballs in the title and the grant will just >write itself. THIS. XD...
• soupisgoodfood commented on Nano Air Vehicle takes flight
  Why are they using flapping wings? I understand researching that alone, but if you just want a small remote air vehicle that can hover, a helicopter is better. Or is there something I've overlooked? It's not like an animal, where evolving continually rotating parts would seem pretty hard. And before someone mentions the complexity of helicopter cyclic controls, piezoelectric blades seem like a good area to research. @21: Autogyros aren't capable of sustained hover....