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To Fly
By beating its wings back and forth, the UAV creates lift by deflecting air downward, creating an area of high pressure directly below the wings and low pressure above.
Bob Sauls
In 2006, Darpa, the Department of Defense’s R&D arm, commissioned AeroVironment, a company specializing in remote aircraft, to create an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) small enough to fly through an open window. AeroVironment had already built the 4.5-foot-wingspan Raven, which first saw combat over Afghanistan in 2003, but making a UAV so much smaller took five years and 300 different wing designs.
Click here to discover how the hummingbird flies and rolls.
Finally, AeroVironment has a working prototype: the 6.5-inch-wingspan Nano Hummingbird. “It was never our intention to copy what nature has done; it’s just too daunting,” says Matt Keennon, the UAV’s head researcher. The camera-equipped bird beats its wings 20 times a second, whereas hummingbirds clock up to 80. Still, it can hover like the real thing, plus perform rolls and even backflips. Here’s how the bird flies.
Wings
A skeleton of hollow carbon-fiber rods is wrapped in fiber mesh and coated in a polyvinyl fluoride film.
Camera
The camera angle is defined by the pitch of the Nano’s body. Forward motion gives the operator a view of the ground, aiding navigation. Hovering is good for surveying rooms.
Body
It weighs 18.7 grams (less than an AA battery). The craft is remote-controlled, but an onboard computer corrects speed and pitch.
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I think I saw these at Target for $69.95.... Wonder what the Government paid...
Even though this hummingbird technology is interesting, the aliens, such as those from the Pleiadian Federation, use a combination of spiritual beings and cloned bodies to keep track of what is going on on their planets.
The spiritual beings monitor say, criminal behavior, by moving through walls and making observations. Then they return to home base where they enter into their cloned body such that they are able to attend meetings, file reports and discuss what they have observed.
Sometimes spiritual beings lose energy and are no longer 100% functional. Using an energy/frequency scanner, they scan the energy field and compare it to the normal energy map which is stored on the computer. Then any changes in frequency can be detected and corrected. Thus the monitors are maintained at a fully functional level.
Because humans are energy beings who can leave their bodies and roam around, it is not necessary to use any technology other than what we have at the moment. For example, OBL was located by remote viewers in 2004, but the government did not want to apprehend him at that time when he was living in his underground cave in the mountains near the border of Pakistan. One remote viewer went into his cave at just the moment OBL came out of a room and walked past the remote viewer. There was a mosaic picture in the hallway and OBL had some little design on his tunic on the left side. The remote viewer was surprised how tall OBL was.
Think how many lives could have saved if the government had acted on this information.
@JohnStClair
What a brilliant impersonation of a near-psychotic conspiracy nut!
@Johnstclair
wow i did not know that. thanks for the info.
Brandon- interesting and might be used for futuristic spy missions, or used by law enforcement to do otherwise dangerous investigations.
@john st claire
Sell me a bag of those mushrooms
You can see this thing here,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96WePgcg37I