Bird-like glider

[MYEYESONECONOMY]

here, we see the 747 in it's natural habitat, let's go have a look!

[consciousopinion]

According to my limited amount of knowledge, I don't see a good reason for this.

[SCARREDMIND]

finally, a solution to pigeons.

[b44styreraug]

Wouldn't this thing stall if it were to be landed from a distance...

[nixnix99]

Step 1 on the machine uprising complete.

[laxwolf]

Great, another thing that will take the grid out... First Birds, now Squirrels, future: Computer Controlled Gliders...

[TeenageIronman]

Im gonna add theses flaps to my suit so i can turn faster and land safley.

[chiosex]

This is not a hard thing to do for a good rc 3d stunt pilot, I'm not saying its easy but there are many rc pilots who could pull this off.

[Tressco]

Accuracy of the attached minigun will be optimized.

Fewer ammo needed to end protests.

Good job!

[paulhallart]

I can't complain, but I can be calm on a plane. Actually the United States Army Materiel Command has been working on this since the sixties, it's called STOL (short takeoff and landing) and it is of extreme importance. The computer assist takes the concept light years ahead. The advancement is in "intelligent trim" with the capability of sculpting the air currents around the lifting areas for various aspects of flight and control. humans couldn't do it due to excessive brain capacity; 2slow.

[coolman9999uk]

I knew she was gonna end this the same way as all her other videos.  Eventually this will be used for rescue attempts... or eventually this will be used to communicate with birds. Pfff!! You don't have to end every bloody video with random speculation!!! If somethings was just a cool engineering feat, just say that, you destroy it's appeal by putting some crap purpose on it! I mean is there reeeaaally a burning desire to land planes on strings?

[Evilfisher]

yeah. 2 sec after that.. enjoy your stall and nose crashh

[richardwebb2112]

i've done that plenty of times with my RC plane into hedges....

[LogicOfLife90]

did she giggle in the end? :P

[etarheel1]

have to call bs on this one

[jvpernis1]

0:27 is that a laugh? i think even she doubts this technology

[austpom333]

Champions

[claudiaquat]

Skynet can has airplanes.

[DamienHell]

"Normally would knock a glider off course, but this one is controlled by a computer"

Computers can beat anything. Today turbulence. TOMORROW THE WORLD!

[victorolsen1]

yes yes but how is this gona help me take over the World!?

[Paxmax]

@victorolsen1 I heard that in the voice of Stewie!

[luckystrke]

We keep imitating nature. But we're not even close.

[Paxmax]

@luckystrke I wouldn't go that far, many skydivers can maneuver just like that, convert forward momentum into lift and touch down really neatly.

[jasonsadventure]

though that's totally cool, it would scare the fuck out of any one on-board.

[Meddlmoe]

Oh, the next generation of drone-aircraft-carriers will be interesting.

[wwickeddogg]

but can it reproduce?

[catapaultpenguin]

They are using this to make spy drones that can charge themselves by parking on power lines, read about it on slashdot.

[quosmo1]

this is no more bizarre than an aircraft carrier catching the planes with a hook and cable : its just what we get used to. its a great concept.

[Niosus]

@quosmo1 i'm still waiting on package delivery by catapult. they can aim mortars from sooo far away, why not use that to deliver packages to people's homes?

[Films4You]

Un-Manned I should hope no one's sitting on-it

[kjrunia]

Did I just hear her laugh saying "confined"? (0:28)

[quosmo1]

@kjrunia yeah, she was thinking of her confined space alright :)

[dafttool]

practical applications? the military landing drones on ships at sea.

[olegen77]

Very interesting video!...Thanks!

[YupHio]

It's just an rc plane, any moderately good rc pilot could do that.

[carlisio123]

not bad..

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

Imagine, when you want to park, you simply press a button, and your plane perches on your window/door balcony entrance thingy XD

[sausage4mash]

we're a hard crowd to please down here in the comments section , but ; this  is cool .

[artvandelay13]

That's actually really cool...

[Bloody5451]

longer videos!

[Xelastic]

No Thanks....

[goatphilososphy]

like learning a language ?

[pubtor]

precision!

[PlayfulGibbon]

Interesting development.

If it could catch a worm and then build a nest, you might have something.

[si1entscorn]

@PlayfulGibbon douche

[PlayfulGibbon]

@si1entscorn redneck

[robertwc82]

@PlayfulGibbon just you wait

[0815tobey]

Any uses for this? Or did just some people got to much money and time?

[reptilezsweden]

@0815tobey The use is obviously for hangar-ships =)

[YuneShik]

@0815tobey You must lack creativity...

[Flyborg]

@0815tobey 0:25 "Eventually, unmanned planes could be designed to land this way in confined spaces." There's yer use. :p But seriously, science doesn't need an immediate use; a lot of our best inventions are the result of researching in random directions.

[RoboTekno]

haha nice. I see UAVs landing on power lines and via induction, could charge themselves.

[superhelt33]

Yay! Im the eight person to comment! :D

[SpongebobDI]

Ladies and gentelmen, please fasten your seatbelts cause we are about to land....

on a freaking wire

[SpongebobDI]

Ladies and gentelmen, please fasten your seatbelts cause we are about to land....

on a freaking wire

[SpongebobDI]

Ladies and gentelmen, please fasten your seatbelts cause we are about to land....

on a freaking wire

[Slance1Himself]

Whoa! Quite fascinating!

[shalkana]

What I wanna see is a Boing 747 doing that :P

[torolof]

@shalkana LOL

[AleksandarKospenda]

@shalkana airbus 380A :O

[Nullstr1ng]

@shalkana they don't have to do that

they need solar panels

[ScientistCat]

@shalkana I'll call you as soon as I see that.

[tostrong4you]

@shalkana XD

[fathead431]

are you kidding? i do that sort of thing with 3d RC profile planes, which is what that is in the video. any good rc plane pilot can do that.

[niiidar]

@fathead431 I think the new thing is that this is done by a computer, not by human.

[MuayThai4Llfe]

@niiidar u need a human to do a computer work

[Blue2Scripter]

@niiidar

and the computer has made by a human.

[Hergonan]

@Blue2Scripter well eventually we will be able to build computers which will be able to build computers, so, then what? :P

they'd be more efficient, too, since they can be designed to produce alterations at any stage so they could create a small-scale "evolution". then the ones who don't succeed will be collected by other computers, scrapped, and used to build new ones.

[DamienZshadow]

@Hergonan Yo dawg, I heard you like computers so we built a computer in your computer so you can compute while you compute! ~ Xzibit

[G3org3Master]

@Hergonan hahahaha nice idea, I lol'd

[tarohoa]

@fathead431 the turbulence is unpredictable so i'd doubt u'd be able to do it with such stability as to be able to land on a wire

[fathead431]

@tarohoa search for some videos on youtube. youll see what im talking about.

[NakedJKid]

wow, now that is pretty damn kool