16 Year Old Landon Kohtz Built a Kite Taller Than He Is
“Indecisive” is a kite built by teenager Landon Kohtz. It’s 7 feet tall with a wing span that almost reaches 10 feet.
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Self-Driving Cars Are So 2015: Get There in a Self-Flying ‘Copter
We never did get our Jetsons flying cars or jet packs. EHang’s trying to change that with this giant, passenger carrying drone.
Man Builds Crazed 54-rotor Flying Vehicle
A British man, YouTuber “gasturbine101,” has posted a video of the first test flight for his “Swarm Manned Aerial Vehicle Multirotor Super Drone,” a “pentacontakaitetracopter” (aka a multirotor with 54 blades). The flight for this over-the-top flying vehicle lasted for about ten minutes and it looks like most of the time he was only about […]
Crouching Phoenix, Flying Dragon
A phoenix, dragons, a flying Jesus with accompanying angels, and a flying wizard (not to be confused with Harry Potter) are among the menagerie of creations you may see this year at Maker Faire. It sounds a bit crazy and maybe it is, but I loved it last year and I’m sure I’ll love it again this year.
Sailing Ship Kite
Design studio Haptic Lab produced this fantastic handcrafted Sailing Ship Kite.
Brooklyn Aerodrome Build Session and Night Flying TONIGHT
Brooklyn Aerodrome will be meeting at McCarren Park tonight from 7-11pm! Brooklyn Aerodrome got its start flying at night in McCarren park and we are going to do it again this Thursday eve June 27. The plan is: Wrench on planes, get night flying gear working from 7 to 9:30 or so. Head out to […]
First Drone Games In SF Today
Autonomous Flight, with a Few Lines of Javascript The first-ever flying drone competition for Silicon Valley’s developer community lands today (Dec 1) at 385 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA. Organizers of the Drone Games, Jyri Engestrom & Chris Sanz, pictured above, write: “In the next few years the idea of drones will dramatically change. Here’s why. You […]
