Video: Cheap and cheerful: flexible multidron-pterodactyl
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
An engineer from Canada invented a flying drone that looks like a Chinese dragon. Cheap, reliable, and graceful - even birds turn to look!
Using inexpensive parts to build drones is a great idea, but with one small drawback: under heavy loads, such drones can literally fall apart. Engineer Ren St. Clair found a way out of this situation and designed an unusual aircraft that scatters air currents, smoothly bending its wings right in flight.
Clair was inspired by the existing flexible wings of a private jet.
The engineer named his robot Flex-Plane, and recently a video demonstrating one of the test flights of the device caught the attention of netizens. In flight, the drone gracefully flaps its wings, becoming like a mechanical pterodactyl.
Last year, Saint-Clair had successfully launched a prototype flexible drone, but it was not very practical and was therefore rather unreliable in the air. The engineer began work on the new model after Boeing launched the amazing Odysseus, which is powered by solar panels and can stay aloft for a year without landing.
For Aurora CEO John Langford, Odyssey was the culmination of a very long journey. Back in the 1980s, Langford, then an MIT student, worked with a group of engineers and Olympic medalist cyclist Kanellos Kanellopoulos. Their group, known as Dadelus '88, set the world record for a muscle-flying machine (a machine powered by a pilot's muscular power) that has never been broken.
Here is a video about him:
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