http://amp.timeinc.net/thedrive/tech...ird?source=dam

Well, not really like a bird unless that bird has engines on its wings. Odysseus was a failure in a lot of respects, why try to copy it?

Ran D. St. Clair Flex 9 Explainer (10 min 13 sec)

Take a look at a company called Festo.

Festo - BionicOpter (1 min 28 sec)

They have a bird, too.

What would be cool is if all of the little planes were together as the big plane for the purposes of efficiency to get to a target area and then split up and attacked other drones Kamikaze style and whatever was left of the "horde" joined back together for the flight home.

Originally Posted by Schrott

Take a look at a company called Festo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj1yhz5io20

Bob has a solution to that...

Universal Robots FlySwatter (0 min 31 sec)

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Originally Posted by madsci_guy

Well, not really like a bird unless that bird has engines on its wings. Odysseus was a failure in a lot of respects, why try to copy it?

Don't you mean Icarus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

True a plane of any shape could be a drone.

Originally Posted by coriolan

Don't you mean Icarus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

Minor detail, but he was US, first.

Originally Posted by Schrott

Minor detail, but he was US, first.

That explain that crickets sound from him

Kind of cool. I don't see what the point is, though, other than being kind of cool.

Originally Posted by coriolan

That explain that crickets sound from him

Sorry, man I just got back to house. And I was wrong, it was named Helios.

It doesn't "flap like a bird" it flexes uncontrollably.

It looks like GWS Micro- Sticks joined together. I bet I could make one similar with nine kits and a roll of tape.