Robotic Landing Gear enables Helicopter to Take Off Anywhere

Helicopters and tilt-rotor aircraft
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by KamenRiderBlade » 13 Sep 2015, 22:54

http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2015-09-10

This technology could be applied to almost any helicopter, this is so awesome.


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by popcorn » 13 Sep 2015, 23:01

Next, they should teach it how to crawl . :devil:
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by KamenRiderBlade » 14 Sep 2015, 00:55

popcorn wrote:Next, they should teach it how to crawl . :devil:

I call feature creep on that. That's an unnecessary feature for a helicopter that can just fly to it's destination

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by popcorn » 14 Sep 2015, 05:23

KamenRiderBlade wrote:
popcorn wrote:Next, they should teach it how to crawl . :devil:

I call feature creep on that. That's an unnecessary feature for a helicopter that can just fly to it's destination

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Fly into it's hangar? :D
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by KamenRiderBlade » 14 Sep 2015, 06:36

popcorn wrote:
KamenRiderBlade wrote:
popcorn wrote:Next, they should teach it how to crawl . :devil:

I call feature creep on that. That's an unnecessary feature for a helicopter that can just fly to it's destination

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Fly into it's hangar? :D


Don't we have tug vehicles for that?



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