@nbaietti Watch the video again, the wings don't give propulsion just efficiently at different speeds. Same reason nearly all planes have Flaps. It increase lift at low speeds that are then retracted to decrease drag.
Can't wait for the Mechanized Cheeta suit, Kangaroo suit would be awesome too. Wow it's going to be like megaman in real life in a couple of years. Maybe we will have to start exploring space more though because this planet keeps going volatile.
@lynxtipped It's not really that much different to the wing-warping techniques from the earliest examples of manned flight..... A cool thing yes.... "How we wanted to fly since dawn of time" and "Incredible".... Not really.
Finally we're getting there. I dream of a time when pilots will "truly wear" their wings and "feel" the wind pushing below them as if they were their own. It took quite a while to get here, from times that pre-date the Roman Empire...
Has nobody else considered the possibility of such a craft serving as a method of delivery for a paralytic agent or even a lethal poison? It might seem like an advanced technology from where we're standing right now, but it could be done. The best method would be to add the smaller, simpler craft as a complement to a larger UAV that can hold more sophisticated equipment, something like a miniature guided missile. And load the larger of those onto a Predator.
@aierce I must have articulated it poorly, then. I was trying to point out that the advantage of a smaller aircraft would be that it would be suitable for more delicate tasks, such as those which I pointed out as rough, preliminary examples. I thought that a means of overcoming range issues would be to use Predator drones as central hubs, perhaps using an intermediate, retrievable craft to carry them to the vicinity of their targets.
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I am watching this without sound, and so I'm a bit confused ... is the plane still propellar-driven? If so, what we have there is basically just instability O.o
The f14 actually does something similar to that. The main advantage this has is that it can sweep the wings quickly and asymmetrically for use in agile maneuvering. To my knowledge the f14 can only sweep the wings slowly in level flight while it transitions from subsonic to supersonic flight speeds. It would be a challenge to incorporate this same technology in a full size piloted platform.
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I need to make something like this for a school assignment. It doesn't actually has to fly, but I should be able to do experiments with it. Could anyone tell me how to make something like this, easy and fast? (Shouldn't be too high-tech like the carbonfibre wings and the electric motors)
I would like to see large airplanes using some similar technology. Not only for achieving higher speeds but most importantly to land at much slower speeds. I find disturbing that large commercial airplanes need to land at speeds >300km/h.
Lol, to all failers sayin' the F-14 'n such did just this. You're dumbasses, the F-14 changes the position of the wing at the base, this changes the entire shape of the wing, as well as the curve it has in it... I've never seen an F-14 do that...
NO, the world must know what is going on out there. This design was taken from an alien craft that landed in 1924 in Iowa. Then moved to area 51 to be studied. This is like 30% of what the alien technology can do. I got pictures!
Dude i'm super cereal about this. This isn't the 1/2 of it. where the hell do you think they got the roomba from? transformers???? man you are so 2000 and late.
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You seem to not get that these "news" are nothing new at all. It's retarded. This is in no way flying as a bird. And F-14 changes its wing when flying, depending on the speed.
For sure, that's really what it is, they just seemed to have moved the orientation and movement of the actuators... if they really wanted to make it proper they should try to morph the control surfaces within the wing... like morphing camber for flight control... they are wastin' capital do that project during this time, that's what I say....
Funny how "obsolete" technology such as the SR-71, F-14, Saturn 5, concorde, are all still the record holders and still the best at what they do, we seem to keep going backwards
Ummm... we have had that for about 35 years? it's not a new concept at all... look up F-14 Tomcat... morphing wings have been around since the 70's in Aircraft... The soviets also had the MiG 31 Foxbat that does the same...
The F-14, F111 ect had swing wing technology, where the wing only pivots from the root. The swift is where the entire shape of the wing changes. Its a generational leap of technology rather than just a new twist to an old idea.
The plane copies those tricks from USAF 1950's technology, which was based on German WWII technology. It was called "variable sweep" back then and did the exact same thing with different materials. Been in use for almost 60 years now and still going.
True. But there is a difference. While aircraft such as the X-5, F10F, F-111, F-14, etc. used variable swept wings for stability at low air speeds, the RoboSwift uses them as the yaw mechanism (steering) for the plane. This can never be used on full scale aircraft simply because moving such a large control surface that quickly is impractical. But for small unmanned surveillance aircraft it could both save weight and enlarge the flight envelope without sacrificing maneuverability at low speeds.
That's what i imagined, but all the video says is it sweeps back for speed and forward for "slower flying", which is what swept wing airplanes have been doing for decades now.
Yaw control - flying wing designs also date back to WWII, and these do it without any kind of tail at all.
It also has a vertical stabilizer but apparently it doesn't work as a rudder.
So the idea is not new here, but the way it is used and the scope of this robot is, and the video does a horrible job of presenting it!
Developing technology which could possibly improve the life and transport of billions of people. Furthermore, to expand on our understanding of aerodynamics. Thousands of potential applications for the future could come from this. But what is the purpose of your naivety?
an aircraft with different wings or structure will fly differently, thus allowing it to serve a different purpose. this remote control airplane is just a prototype, the finished product will be full sized airplanes that are capable of things that stationary-winged aircraft are not capable of.
For those who said that the F-14 do the same, the answer is no. The F-14 rotates the wing itself to change the swep of the wings (meaning that the wings are rigid), while this little thing changes the form of the wing (the wings are flexible), is a subtle, but important difference.
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The u.s. has a army of over 13,000,000 hunter-killer robots, with over 900,000 already deployed in enemy countries, without their knowledge.These robots tunnel underground, to a depth of 9 meters, and wait for orders to deploy.When ordered, they emerge from their earthen hiding place, and using a nuclear-plasma laser device, they hunt and destroy both personal and vehicles, including armored tanks.The weapons on these robots, which are only 3/4 meter long, are capable of over 3,200 discharge
And its common knowledge that the urban pigeon population it a combined surveillance and street cleaning program started by the U.S. army in the early 90's
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the design is different but the wings changing there position on an aircraft has been used for a while................look at the F14 Tomcat , f111 aardvark , Panavia Tornado and the MiG 23 flogger
a uav is still a plane....................and the swing wing design was used is used in a similar if not the same manner.......swept out for low speed and swept in for high speed along with improving maneuverability depending on if the wings are in or out.
on my screen the video is not in widescreen. It's in a 16:9 area but the vid itself within that area is 4:3 and has a black bar left and right to fill in the gaps.
Honestly, I don't hate f-14's, but these stupid little kiddies saying that f-14's are the ultimate fighter because they saw Tom Cruises naval wank off.. hold on let me make a point "I have the need, the need for speed".. honestly, who wrote that stereotypical garbage (I know i can check the movie credits)!!? Go stick your scientology lover crap in your lunchbox and feed it (your crusty mouth that is).
My point was that the idea of having wings fold back when the aircraft is flying faster is not new. I did not mean to imply that f-14s were the "ultimate fighter" or that they were even any good. I simply assumed, whether correctly or not, that the point of this video was to exhibit new technology, and made the observation that the technology was not new at all but has existed for quite some time.
As for the argument about crime surveillance, if you get to the distance that you can tell for sure whether a small flying object is a bird, it does not exhibit enough bird-like behaviour to qualify as one.
Small fixed-wing aircraft with efficiently cooled engines and exhaust ducts for low visual, radar and infrared signatures would deliver the same surveillance at less cost, weight penalty and complexity - the motor actuators, hinges and spars of that wing add too much of these for a small a/c.
I have to admit, bluefalconholland's robot peregrine falcon is way more impressive and uses way more of the bird technology than this video. This video reminds of the Tomcat fighter plane which already has wings that swoop backwards during high speed, so what these guys didn't isn't anything new.
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Yes your right lets just invent birds. LOL idiot. What good could possible come out of this we already know how birds fly, we have airplanes that do this same procedure, and this has already been discovered please move on,these experiments must have been filmed 50 years ago to be interesting.
yeah, but wouldnt it be good to have a plane that looked like a bird, flew like a bird, but wasnt a bird, taking video footage of a robbery, or bombing a country, instead of a plane, they do these things for a reason.
You've made Tom Cruise so jealous! Wait...
sux2bu37 3 weeks ago
new technology? I thought the F-14 could do this
elnogga 3 months ago
Search "A robot that flies like a bird" This actually flies like a bird, not using a spinning propeller.
jesusramos1900 4 months ago
but with the propeler the wing movement seems irrelevant
nbaietti 5 months ago
@nbaietti Watch the video again, the wings don't give propulsion just efficiently at different speeds. Same reason nearly all planes have Flaps. It increase lift at low speeds that are then retracted to decrease drag.
DemonAMVs 5 months ago
watch the difference of this and a f14 fighter?
jazdx01 6 months ago
Can't wait for the Mechanized Cheeta suit, Kangaroo suit would be awesome too. Wow it's going to be like megaman in real life in a couple of years. Maybe we will have to start exploring space more though because this planet keeps going volatile.
herbdragon 6 months ago
@lynxtipped It's not really that much different to the wing-warping techniques from the earliest examples of manned flight..... A cool thing yes.... "How we wanted to fly since dawn of time" and "Incredible".... Not really.
mryellow123 7 months ago
Finally we're getting there. I dream of a time when pilots will "truly wear" their wings and "feel" the wind pushing below them as if they were their own. It took quite a while to get here, from times that pre-date the Roman Empire...
rivendell9999 7 months ago
@rivendell9999 "wingsuit" search it.
mryellow123 7 months ago
ummmm, we already make planes like this for decades now?
aierce 8 months ago
Has nobody else considered the possibility of such a craft serving as a method of delivery for a paralytic agent or even a lethal poison? It might seem like an advanced technology from where we're standing right now, but it could be done. The best method would be to add the smaller, simpler craft as a complement to a larger UAV that can hold more sophisticated equipment, something like a miniature guided missile. And load the larger of those onto a Predator.
ChristiaanVII 9 months ago
@ChristiaanVII you have no concept of reality, please make sense
aierce 8 months ago
@aierce I must have articulated it poorly, then. I was trying to point out that the advantage of a smaller aircraft would be that it would be suitable for more delicate tasks, such as those which I pointed out as rough, preliminary examples. I thought that a means of overcoming range issues would be to use Predator drones as central hubs, perhaps using an intermediate, retrievable craft to carry them to the vicinity of their targets.
ChristiaanVII 8 months ago
@ChristiaanVII Ah, i see, but i think it's probably easier to just carry more of the "paralytic agent" or explosives or whatever
aierce 8 months ago
Corretion: Mimics a birds WINGS not wing.
Polaf3456 9 months ago
This is a copy of the Mayan Version. For those who think this is new tech, think again.
Phantasmos 11 months ago
wut? the morphing wing technology already exits on planes, so the only achievement was making it pilot-less.
TheJayman213 1 year ago
the same technology can be used to fly roflcopters
goodman4301 1 year ago 5
I sure alot of time put into this, pretty cool!
serpentstooth1 1 year ago
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you sick bastard..
MrVeyis 1 year ago
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graywackeknifebdr 1 year ago
Nascarrelic, how did that comment even get 43 thumbs up? Bad joke is bad. It stayed in the past for a reason.
SixtehNien 1 year ago
I am watching this without sound, and so I'm a bit confused ... is the plane still propellar-driven? If so, what we have there is basically just instability O.o
Lundix 1 year ago
@Lundix well turn the fucking sound on!!!
wordsofwisdom2009 1 year ago
it can help biologists and the police woohoo thats one more thing that has use in the community
wolfscar848 1 year ago
The f14 actually does something similar to that. The main advantage this has is that it can sweep the wings quickly and asymmetrically for use in agile maneuvering. To my knowledge the f14 can only sweep the wings slowly in level flight while it transitions from subsonic to supersonic flight speeds. It would be a challenge to incorporate this same technology in a full size piloted platform.
eyeammi 1 year ago
After exploring new areodynamicdesigns for years we fing out that the oldest designs, namely the natural ones, are still the best.
yoshyoka 1 year ago
When does the backback version come out?
Iamthenoi 1 year ago
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narragansettharco 1 year ago
amazing
Hillsillverr 1 year ago
I need to make something like this for a school assignment. It doesn't actually has to fly, but I should be able to do experiments with it. Could anyone tell me how to make something like this, easy and fast? (Shouldn't be too high-tech like the carbonfibre wings and the electric motors)
Thanks
HipHopUploadz 1 year ago
I've thought that they could do worse. I mean, I've made hover technology....
NinjaPeoplez 1 year ago
Gmod fin tool hahahahaha
androidboy19 1 year ago
hahahahah excellent...
kriskater 1 year ago
doesn't the F 14 Tomcat already use retractable wings?
kuri4001 1 year ago 5
@kuri4001 yes, but not to that extent
ToothpasteKing 1 year ago
i couldn't see this being efficient on large scale. :(
PCgamer1010 1 year ago
unfortunately for you, the military disagrees.
Strategy5659 1 year ago
I saw these at the flea market for 2 bucks
etienbjel 1 year ago
"mommy that bird is staring at me(12 year old girl)" " dont worry its just the pedobear spy bird!"
1joel8 2 years ago 5
haha ... leave that for the marketing department! ;)
heyawhaw 2 years ago
@NASCARRELIC LMAO
pkeranger27 2 years ago 3
Swept wings, like the US F-14 or F-111....how new and exciting!
DonMeaker 2 years ago 17
Yea. Wow. Vintage 1970's tech.
gjc82071 2 years ago 3
@DonMeaker idea is similar but executions is was different
NIGHTMAREuki 2 months ago
I would like to see large airplanes using some similar technology. Not only for achieving higher speeds but most importantly to land at much slower speeds. I find disturbing that large commercial airplanes need to land at speeds >300km/h.
MrAlbatroz00 2 years ago
landing is the best part dude!!
sevi66666 2 years ago
lol security footage with 3 min flytime lol thats silly
zaman702 2 years ago
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this is old shit, just a swept wings on a parkflyer, no big deal look at the gumman f-14 tomcat, old shit is old
shoopwhoopX 2 years ago
Wow...from far away it looked like a real swift..
My dad would love one of these..Hahahaha.
rosydonut 2 years ago 4
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big deal
this is old technology
sweetypie000 2 years ago
Lol, to all failers sayin' the F-14 'n such did just this. You're dumbasses, the F-14 changes the position of the wing at the base, this changes the entire shape of the wing, as well as the curve it has in it... I've never seen an F-14 do that...
m3phisto666 2 years ago 5
I have! in area 51
jeffzahnd 2 years ago
shut ur fucking mouth lier
mastermime67 2 years ago
NO, the world must know what is going on out there. This design was taken from an alien craft that landed in 1924 in Iowa. Then moved to area 51 to be studied. This is like 30% of what the alien technology can do. I got pictures!
jeffzahnd 2 years ago
u... ARE A FUCKING LIER NOW GO HANG URSELF
mastermime67 2 years ago
Dude i'm super cereal about this. This isn't the 1/2 of it. where the hell do you think they got the roomba from? transformers???? man you are so 2000 and late.
jeffzahnd 2 years ago 2
get this guy to do the voiceovers again!!
artvandelay13 2 years ago 3
this is amazing how can u say such bad things about it!
Acrabcake 2 years ago 5
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You seem to not get that these "news" are nothing new at all. It's retarded. This is in no way flying as a bird. And F-14 changes its wing when flying, depending on the speed.
realisticHomeboy 2 years ago
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lame!
realisticHomeboy 2 years ago
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U SUCK!!
jagerjantje 2 years ago
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even so, it's still lame.
realisticHomeboy 2 years ago
When the FBI shows up at your door asking about your meth lab, they'll say, "A little birdie told us."
Kingof666 2 years ago 35
security footage of who?
lifewarrior2375 2 years ago
the neighbours cat
smeghead666 2 years ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the obsolete F-14 TOMCAT did pretty much the same thing.
kevintracy 2 years ago 4
Indeed.
TioDonTomas 2 years ago
For sure, that's really what it is, they just seemed to have moved the orientation and movement of the actuators... if they really wanted to make it proper they should try to morph the control surfaces within the wing... like morphing camber for flight control... they are wastin' capital do that project during this time, that's what I say....
heftycat 2 years ago
absolutely. I will miss seeing that great machine soar in the sky.
AusNav09 2 years ago
Funny how "obsolete" technology such as the SR-71, F-14, Saturn 5, concorde, are all still the record holders and still the best at what they do, we seem to keep going backwards
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*Yawns*
Who cares.
AussietheAustralian 2 years ago
your name is the "aussietheaustralian" that's like me calling myself "ncthenorthcarolinian"
i hate yo
hubhub27 2 years ago
Who cares who yo hate.
You delusional idiot.
AussietheAustralian 2 years ago 2
go stick a boomerang up your ass
hubhub27 2 years ago 2
And now it's the size of a small bird, and not a big plane. :D
3point0 2 years ago
D: , i thought it was a big plane.
leoskulhamba 2 years ago
Ummm... we have had that for about 35 years? it's not a new concept at all... look up F-14 Tomcat... morphing wings have been around since the 70's in Aircraft... The soviets also had the MiG 31 Foxbat that does the same...
biggee316 2 years ago 3
The F-14, F111 ect had swing wing technology, where the wing only pivots from the root. The swift is where the entire shape of the wing changes. Its a generational leap of technology rather than just a new twist to an old idea.
myrmecia1977 2 years ago 4
The MiG-23 and the 27 man.
TioDonTomas 2 years ago
I love my country and it's innovators :)
inofaith 2 years ago
The plane copies those tricks from USAF 1950's technology, which was based on German WWII technology. It was called "variable sweep" back then and did the exact same thing with different materials. Been in use for almost 60 years now and still going.
Spectacularification 2 years ago 3
True. But there is a difference. While aircraft such as the X-5, F10F, F-111, F-14, etc. used variable swept wings for stability at low air speeds, the RoboSwift uses them as the yaw mechanism (steering) for the plane. This can never be used on full scale aircraft simply because moving such a large control surface that quickly is impractical. But for small unmanned surveillance aircraft it could both save weight and enlarge the flight envelope without sacrificing maneuverability at low speeds.
coasterpro 2 years ago 2
That's what i imagined, but all the video says is it sweeps back for speed and forward for "slower flying", which is what swept wing airplanes have been doing for decades now.
Yaw control - flying wing designs also date back to WWII, and these do it without any kind of tail at all.
It also has a vertical stabilizer but apparently it doesn't work as a rudder.
So the idea is not new here, but the way it is used and the scope of this robot is, and the video does a horrible job of presenting it!
Spectacularification 2 years ago
This is the coolest thing I've seen all day
canubelieve 2 years ago
the purpose for doing this is, what???
jasongmb 2 years ago
Developing technology which could possibly improve the life and transport of billions of people. Furthermore, to expand on our understanding of aerodynamics. Thousands of potential applications for the future could come from this. But what is the purpose of your naivety?
LHMcalindon 2 years ago
well you could make a bomb flight that just looked like a bird as long as you had it high up in the air
LucifersAngelFeather 2 years ago
an aircraft with different wings or structure will fly differently, thus allowing it to serve a different purpose. this remote control airplane is just a prototype, the finished product will be full sized airplanes that are capable of things that stationary-winged aircraft are not capable of.
HamsterPants522 2 years ago
Kool maybe there will be plains like those in the future since there is already this..
AiLawliet 2 years ago
studying birds my ass, Iran recently shot one down in the last year, check it out. It was israeli made
budbrother 2 years ago 4
lol
there is a swallow like looking RC aircraft...get the FLAK!!!
Prof1989 2 years ago
lame design. brute force solution
DracoRenaissance 2 years ago
wow,, WOW,
after seeing robert Full @ TED talks,
we are soon to be on the new wave of orgo engineering.
great stuff
aceofblack 2 years ago
its called a servo, that moves the wings, go buy some for like $9 on towerhobbies, then get it flying
dellone13 2 years ago
f-14 does not do this for those noobs out there who think so the f-14s wings sweap back not down like a bird you duppper
noobthious 2 years ago
"can sweep backwards for greater effinancy at high speeds"
Like a retired F-14? newer but same thing.
gregrutz 2 years ago 3
For those who said that the F-14 do the same, the answer is no. The F-14 rotates the wing itself to change the swep of the wings (meaning that the wings are rigid), while this little thing changes the form of the wing (the wings are flexible), is a subtle, but important difference.
66GP9T 2 years ago 2
F-14 does this already... the navy has been using them for many years.
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blueangeIfish1 2 years ago
LSD is bad for your health.
ashtray45 2 years ago 6
for yours too
darktempalr242 2 years ago
And its common knowledge that the urban pigeon population it a combined surveillance and street cleaning program started by the U.S. army in the early 90's
kamlv 2 years ago 3
Leonardo da Vinci would be proud...
DarthPickley 2 years ago 3
Is this a new idea? NO? ever heard about the plane f-14
Buenosretardes 2 years ago
This isn't a new idea, but the way it works is new.
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PlagueOfBabies 2 years ago
I've heard claims of "strange birds" in the sky during chemtrail spraying over communities. Coincidence?
JERKFACE75 2 years ago
ufo anyone?!!if this simple device can mimic ufo movements..we seriously need to think about what is ufo..and what is ours!!As in military...
spliffslayer 2 years ago
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The truth will set you free.... =D
PaulWayneBarnett 2 years ago 2
"Whoa, whoa, doc! You better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88 miles per hour."
crookedtool 2 years ago 4
"marti! you're not thinking fourth dimensionally"
aintnojusticejustus 2 years ago 3
Roads? Where we're going....we don't need roads!!
808wiz 2 years ago 2
LoL the train is the best one
H4X0RXP 2 years ago
what r u guys talking about?? lol
Jagdeepkaler 2 years ago
LOL @ 0:08 - 0:11
cammo6901 2 years ago
you said morphine birds... jiminy cricket... hahhah and no... not far but potentially fast
sabezogg 2 years ago
sweet 5/5
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rediscovering the wheel. good job. waste some more time plz
ActiveStorage 2 years ago
Intriguing.
boony68 2 years ago
Sorry that most have not the vision to see the potential use of the device.
Torpedoeight 2 years ago 5
How about spying?
NibrasAhamed 2 years ago
the design is different but the wings changing there position on an aircraft has been used for a while................look at the F14 Tomcat , f111 aardvark , Panavia Tornado and the MiG 23 flogger
grame141 2 years ago
Not in this manner, at this speed or with such elegance.
Besides, as said this is meant for UAV's and not for fighter jets or commerical airline purposes.
Styreta 2 years ago
a uav is still a plane....................and the swing wing design was used is used in a similar if not the same manner.......swept out for low speed and swept in for high speed along with improving maneuverability depending on if the wings are in or out.
grame141 2 years ago
Hahaha!! Look at how far that guy runs just to launch that tiny plane!
crookedtool 2 years ago
He is a genius (except at throwing stuff)
Chopin742 2 years ago 2
Yea, the Germans did this over 60 years ago, and several nations have used the technology since. It's called a variable swept wing.
HerrSchenkel 2 years ago
This isn't a swing wing. The whole wing warps rather than just rotating.
Deathpod4 2 years ago
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Wow, 3 whole minutes in the air... What a remarkable accomplishment...
mortenrobinson 2 years ago
hasnt this already been done with a jet aircraft? i remember seeing somin
Guyza1geza 2 years ago
When Da Vinci first started to invent a flying craft,it looks like this.
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huggen12 3 years ago
at least "robo-bird" wont poo on you when it flys over!! ha ha ha!!
ChemicalMikeUK 3 years ago 10
mighty morphine power ranger birds
kardentyrell 3 years ago 6
lol
andben 3 years ago
I really doubt that 'morphine' birds are going to fly very far.
crookedtool 2 years ago
well of course their not if they are on "morphine" lol
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elephantstone67 3 years ago
i want morphine wings
drumspirit23 3 years ago
Retard....
samopollo 3 years ago
LMAO!!!!
11frenchy 3 years ago
cool, widescreen!
mobius1291 3 years ago
eh ?
MatzeAppel 3 years ago
I hadnt been on youtube for a while and this is the first video I noticed that was in widescreen.
mobius1291 3 years ago
on my screen the video is not in widescreen. It's in a 16:9 area but the vid itself within that area is 4:3 and has a black bar left and right to fill in the gaps.
LukeSkyscraper 3 years ago
man now i know not to do bad things around birds rofl
weswilliam 3 years ago
good design. granted the f-14 morphs, but it's not such a big deal since it's just lateral. I like that this is a vertical morph.
BMX4life311 3 years ago
Its still a prop plane. It dont use the flapping wings to fly.
Vicryl007 3 years ago
F-14s have been doing that since before I was born...
NoseEverything 3 years ago
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Yeah f-14's dont use carbon fibre though do they you fucking Tom Cruise sucking spastic.
LOLDISNEYLAND 3 years ago
Honestly, I don't hate f-14's, but these stupid little kiddies saying that f-14's are the ultimate fighter because they saw Tom Cruises naval wank off.. hold on let me make a point "I have the need, the need for speed".. honestly, who wrote that stereotypical garbage (I know i can check the movie credits)!!? Go stick your scientology lover crap in your lunchbox and feed it (your crusty mouth that is).
LOLDISNEYLAND 3 years ago
My point was that the idea of having wings fold back when the aircraft is flying faster is not new. I did not mean to imply that f-14s were the "ultimate fighter" or that they were even any good. I simply assumed, whether correctly or not, that the point of this video was to exhibit new technology, and made the observation that the technology was not new at all but has existed for quite some time.
NoseEverything 3 years ago
They crap acid! Our precious statues and automobile paint jobs are doomed!
melloki76 3 years ago
As for the argument about crime surveillance, if you get to the distance that you can tell for sure whether a small flying object is a bird, it does not exhibit enough bird-like behaviour to qualify as one.
Small fixed-wing aircraft with efficiently cooled engines and exhaust ducts for low visual, radar and infrared signatures would deliver the same surveillance at less cost, weight penalty and complexity - the motor actuators, hinges and spars of that wing add too much of these for a small a/c.
r3x3r 3 years ago
This is simply a repackage of old technology. Variable geometry has been in use for at least 30 years.
r3x3r 3 years ago
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This is just another rc plane. Want to see a real robot bird? Please have a look at my video of my robot peregrine falcon.
bluefalconholland 3 years ago
I have to admit, bluefalconholland's robot peregrine falcon is way more impressive and uses way more of the bird technology than this video. This video reminds of the Tomcat fighter plane which already has wings that swoop backwards during high speed, so what these guys didn't isn't anything new.
fact3r 3 years ago
fix the comment limit problem/lie
1onebastard 3 years ago
dddddd
1onebastard 3 years ago
Pretty cool! I can't wait till they do this kind of thing to hangliders!
IMPERATORTIBERIVS 3 years ago
That's a new idea? They're producing ultrasonic bombers with variable wing geometry for about 30 years already..
jekader 3 years ago
at this rate, one day, we'll have air vehicles that will be able to take passengers to their destinations by moving through the air!
ScrewAttackChina 3 years ago
best comment :P
Jace33k 3 years ago 2
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If god meant for us to fly, we'd have been given wings, good sir.
gitargr8 3 years ago
o.k.
ScrewAttackChina 3 years ago
or God wanted us to learn, and advance our brains to learn to fly.
rsonbie456 3 years ago
Or god wanted you to lookup the definition of sarcasm.
gitargr8 3 years ago
dude...i wasnt even serious. I think YOU should learn how to TYPE sarcasm and express it.
rsonbie456 3 years ago
Thats nothing compared to going to space!
But thats probably never going to happen without the help of faeries.
adrastea99 3 years ago
Uh, we've had fighter jets doing that for years already, right?
Mirefrost00 3 years ago
Yes, but instead of the wing actually changing shape, they would just rotate back and forth.
yz250bmd 3 years ago
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that's exactly what I was thinking. this is what Tax money goes to?
Kartracer6 3 years ago
ahh no, the go to Mr.Bush little war... :D and his pocket... and other pockets...
techware7 3 years ago 3
Yeah, what good could possibly come from experimenting?
Idiot. Do you think airliners, cars, computers, and everything else the world DEPENDS on were just magically thrown together?
BipedalMammal 3 years ago 4
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Yes your right lets just invent birds. LOL idiot. What good could possible come out of this we already know how birds fly, we have airplanes that do this same procedure, and this has already been discovered please move on,these experiments must have been filmed 50 years ago to be interesting.
Kartracer6 3 years ago
yeah, but wouldnt it be good to have a plane that looked like a bird, flew like a bird, but wasnt a bird, taking video footage of a robbery, or bombing a country, instead of a plane, they do these things for a reason.
Aeonation 3 years ago