ITT: Awesome flying machines.

[YAOMTC]

First:



Kinda reminds me of Manhacks. It has six propellers and can move pretty quickly. Fairly silently, too, once it's up there.

Unlike this one, which is pretty insane:



(They don't have to be small, this is just what I saw today.)

 

[Baerdog]

That first one was really cool, and more than a little bit scary. Made me wonder where the heck I'd put my gravity gun.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Manhacks!

 

[PatrThom]

Yeah, that first one is pretty awesome. I can imagine using one of those and a computer to automatically update traffic pattern snapshots in any high-snarl area. Just have the computer send one out for a photo op for 5 min of video, then auto return to charger, then repeat 10 min later for 4/hr updates.

Then again, I can also see a fleet of a dozen of them being released independently to automatically/autonomically deliver 12 separate 1kg nail bombs set to detonate when all 12 swoop in and arrive simultaneously at the GPS-programmed destination.

Dunno. I see both good and bad uses for it.

--Patrick

 

[Denbrought]

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[Just Me]

Not small nor modern, but awesome intheir own right. Giants of a bygone age of aviation:

http://members.fortunecity.com/phreke/cs/junkersg38.html

http://members.fortunecity.com/phreke/cs/dornierdox.html

 

[YAOMTC]

See, that's the kind of stuff I had in mind to add to the OP, but I couldn't remember what they were called. Thanks for posting!

You do look like one of those old school pilots in your picture, actually...

 

[drifter]

This is awesome not so much for the flying machine (which is still pretty sweet), as for seeing it built from scratch.

http://www.su27.de/inhaltindex.htm