Georgia Tech University ’s aerospace technologist Eric Feron has a vision : aircraft which can land at any angle . I ’m certain there are dozens of practical reasons for that , but the only reason that count for me is that the idea of an spidercopter set ashore on a rampart is Pretty Damn Cool ™ Right now , only some helicopters can land on 20 - academic degree slopes . Feron ’s self-governing models can land on 60 - degree slope :
Feron and his colleague Selcuk Bayraktar used photographic camera to track movements and develop computer package to provide the robotlike aircrafts to land on their own . The feat , even while right now it use Velcro to keep the aircraft attach to the surface once it bring , involves making the bourdon flip in a perfect way to meet down with all its landing pods at the same clip . The cool matter is that , if the chopper ca n’t do it for whatever reason , it recovers automatically to essay to again .
Feron says that the Velcro is only a temporal standard : his plan is to reverse the rotors so it “ sucks it down onto the pad ” or , better yet , habituate claws to hang onto any surface , Wolverine style . We can only hope that the military does n’t give a damn about this and we could have a toy like this do trap in every wall next xmas . [ New Scientist ]
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