Invisible Unmanned Aircraft 241
MattSparkes writes, "A Minnesota company, VeraTech, has applied for a patent on an unmanned drone that is nearly invisible to the naked eye. The Phantom Sentinel takes advantage of the phenomenon where fast moving objects appear as only a blur, so it fades out of view once it speeds up. This is achieved by rotating the entire craft. The center of gravity is in open air between two of the blade-like wings. There are some videos of a prototype in action on the VeraTech site." The company says you could get usable video of the terrain by processing the images from a spinning camera. One version of the drone is small enough to launch by throwing it like a boomerang. And it folds for travel.
Invisible spinning boomerang planes (Score:4, Funny)
'Ouch'
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Invisible spinning boomerang planes (Score:5, Funny)
Private Jones: So what's the boomerang doing now? What can you see?
Private Smith: Its heading straight toward some dumb looking shmuck wearing those gay VR goggles.... hey what the..?!!
Re:Videos? (Score:5, Funny)
Article Picture (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No it isn't invisible (Score:3, Funny)
Excuse my asking, but how well do Dog-balls stand out on Radar?
Re:Invisible spinning boomerang planes (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No it isn't invisible (Score:5, Funny)
Really.
Like a car's wheel (Score:2, Funny)
I've got one (Score:5, Funny)
I build one of these things years ago. Unfortunately, I haven't seen it since its first test flight.
Prior Art (Score:5, Funny)
VeraTech vs Veritech (Robotech) (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Problem/Solution (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Problem/Solution (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Videos? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Invisible (Score:3, Funny)
Oh I don't think so [gadmin.ch].
Chuck one of those at the thing and it's sure to go down.