Comment Re:In Other News... (Score 1) 67
It's been done. On August 11, 2003, a model airplane designed by famous aeromodeller Maynard Hill successfully navigated its way from Newfoundland to Ireland. In fact, a group from the university of Washington did it in 1998 with an autonomous aircraft but it weighed more than the allowed weight for a model aircraft. The Rutgers group is doing it underwater, but they are not nearly the first.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0805_020805_transatlantic.html
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