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Researchers put bird legs on a drone so it can take off by jumping
Their Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple ENvironments (RAVEN) trades traditional landing gear for a pair of bird-inspired articulated legs that ... where they can take off and land ...
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Watch This Drone Walk, Hop And Take Flight, Thanks To Its Two Legs
Birds can transition seamlessly ... to purchase fully autonomous, VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) fixed-wing drones, but adding legs marches the vehicles into a new frontier.
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Engineers Design Drone That Takes Off With Bird-Like Legs
Most of these flying machines use rotary-wing quadcopter designs, which allow them to take off ... some legs on a drone known as the RAVEN. This new drone takes its inspiration from birds, which ...
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What are bird strikes and should you be worried about them during your next flight?
According to South Korean officials, the control tower at Muan International Airport issued a bird warning to the plane as it approached the runway for landing on Dec. 29. Thanks to stringent ...
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Bird strike, landing gear malfunction? Determining cause of crash likely to take time
"The (pilot) received the bird strike warning while attempting the landing for the first time ... at Muan International Airport after taking off from Bangkok, but overshot the runway due to ...
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Bird strikes a common hazard, but aviation experts say there’s more to Jeju Air crash
Most of the strikes involved birds although wildlife also includes animals like deer. About 90 per cent of bird strikes happen near airports, when an aircraft is taking off or landing, or flying ...