Nth NEW 'HOME DARPA and latest DRONE: BUT THIS TIME IN MINIATURE
Di Mattia Paolinelli
looks like a hummingbird, but it is not. And 'one of the last projects for the Pentagon, now come to its final stage and that following an evidently successful demonstration is presented as a perfect tool for espionage outdoor / indoor.
The name chosen is "Nano Hummingbird" and was produced by DARPA in collaboration with a California company (based in Monrovia) AeroVironment Inc., the course that you do not pray to magnify the results of their work through the words of its vice chairman, Tom Herring, "has reached a milestone never achieved in the field of technology - precision control flight and high speed In an airplane that uses an internal power source and uses the two wings of which has mobile as the sole means of propulsion and control. "
But beyond the obvious compliment reserved by Herring to his "creation", what are the actual merits Hummingbird and what are its modes of use in espionage?
More evidence can be provided by the technical objectives set by the Pentagon:
Demonstrate precision hover, staying within a virtual sphere with a diameter of two meters one minute.
demonstrate the stability of hovering in the presence of wind gusts. You will be asked to remain in the air and put up a gust of wind side of two meters per second without deriving downwind for more than a meter.
Prove to know how to maintain steady flight for eight consecutive minutes without external energy sources.
Flying and demonstrate the ability to control, with a transition from hover flight at a speed of 11 mph and back to hover.
demonstrate the ability to fly from outside to inside a building and back outside through a door of ordinary size.
Demonstrate 'heads-down' indoor flight where the pilot of the aircraft by relying solely on the images broadcast live from your camcorder, watch or hear directly without the airplane.
Ensuring the ability to hover and creating an ordinary aircraft body and wings like those of a bird.
The small airplane with a wingspan of only 6.5 inches and with a total weight of 19 grams is able to perform virtually any type of movement and its development has been spent on four million dollars.
Money well spent? A unique source of opinion could be represented by this video
the final demonstration of the pattern of use and ability to fly the "Nano Hummingbird."
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