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Here’s the Reason The FAA’s Drone Registration System Doesn’t Make Sense
Last week, the US Department of Transportation and FAA released their rules governing drones, model aircraft, unmanned aerial systems, and quadcopters – a rose by any other name will be regulated as...
View ArticleYour Drone Is Cool, But It’s No Jet Fighter
There are some communities with whom our happy band of hardware hackers share a lot in common, but with whom we don’t often associate. The more workshop-orientated end of the car modification or...
View ArticleThis Hurricane Uses A Novel Technique
You’ve probably heard of the brave pilots, the so-called ‘few’, that took to the air in their Supermarine Spitfires and saved the day during the Battle of Britain. It’s a story that contains a lot of...
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Diaphragm Air Engine
One of the tricky parts of engineering in the physical world is making machines work with the available resources and manufacturing technologies. [Tom Stanton] has designed and made a couple of...
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Flight of the Pterothopter: A Jurassic-Inspired Ornithopter
Ornithopters look silly. They look like something that shouldn’t work. An airplane with no propeller and wings that go flappy-flappy? No way that thing is going to fly. There are, however, a multitude...
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Building a Giant Remote Controlled Model Airbus A380 in a Year
A year ago [Ramy RC] set out on a momentous challenge: to build a 1:21 scale Airbus A380-800 RC model with functional engines, landing gear and all other details. Recently he finished the project and...
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Building a Truss-Braced Model Airplane: Sense or Nonsense?
Following NASA’s recent results with truss-braced wing airplanes and the benefits this could bring to full-sized airplanes, [Think Flight] figured that if it helps with those airplanes, perhaps it may...
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