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That thing is really cool. I work for Honeywell and we make the T-hawk, a small ducted fan flying machine that is used for surveillance in the Army by the infantry. They are now using them at the Fukushima Daichi reactor site in Japan to measure radiation levels. Honeywell : T-Hawk Micro Air Vehicle
I love it! The only problem is if they ever built a full sized one those rolling landings may be a little more nauseating than "easy". It could make commercial air travel a little more interesting though and maybe the pilots would stop falling asleep in the cockpit if they were flying something that cool.
The design is very creative and uses what is really very basic propulsion and control surfaces. Hi Tech light weight materials make this possible along with hi capacity LiON batteries.
The potential for a quiet low observable drone is immense. I will wager that one of the defense contractor "Biggies" have already bought the rights to the design
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