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Modern Japanese taketombo bamboo-copters; wooden type with winding thread (left); plastic type (right) A decorated Japanese taketombo propeller. The bamboo-copter, also known as the bamboo dragonfly or Chinese top (Chinese zhuqingting (竹蜻蜓), Japanese taketonbo 竹蜻蛉), is a toy helicopter rotor that flies up when its shaft is rapidly spun.
The Tactical Robotics Cormorant, formerly AirMule or Mule, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) codename Pereira (shapiyriyt; שפירית Shafririt: Dragonfly), [1] is a flying car unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) built by Tactical Robotics Ltd., a subsidiary of designer Rafi Yoeli's Urban Aeronautics Ltd., in Yavne, Israel. [2]
FlyTech Dragonfly comes in multiple colors, blue and green are the most commercially available, while red/orange ones are less common. One version of the Dragonfly is designed to resemble Barry B. Benson from the 2007 DreamWorks animated film Bee Movie. A Toys-R-Us exclusive variant called the Hornet had a more wasp-like body.
Boeing X-50 Dragonfly, an unmanned aerial surveillance vehicle designed by the U.S. military; Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, a US attack aircraft; Castiglioni Dragon Fly 333 (Dragon Fly 333), an Italian helicopter
The vehicle is to have sensors to scout new science targets, and then return to the original site until new landing destinations are approved by mission controllers. [43] [44] The Dragonfly rotorcraft will weigh approximately 450 kg (990 lb) and be packaged inside a heatshield of 3.7 m (12 ft) diameter. [3]
Personal flying vehicles defy simple classification, which may be part of their allure. There are STOLs and VTOLs, quadcopters, octocopters and hexacopters. Some are electric, some are gas-powered
The Boeing X-50A Dragonfly, formerly known as the Canard Rotor/Wing Demonstrator, was a VTOL rotor wing experimental unmanned aerial vehicle that was developed by Boeing and DARPA to demonstrate the principle that a helicopter's rotor could be stopped in flight and act as a fixed wing, enabling it to transition between fixed-wing and rotary-wing flight.
The Insectothopter is a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle developed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency's research and development office in the 1970s. [1] The Insectothopter was the size of a dragonfly, and was hand-painted to look like one. It was powered by a miniature fluidic oscillator to propel the wings up and down at the ...