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Coandă Effect Flying Saucer

April 3rd, 2007 by matt

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This army project has been making the rounds on the internet. The Flying Saucer works using the Coanda Effect which makes for a compact blade system to lift a larger bodied object. Pretty smart!

Related Links:
Wired - most in depth info
JNL Labs - Pictures of Assembly
Coandă effect @ Wikipedia

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 at 12:26 pm and is filed under Flying Robots, Military, UAV. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Coandă Effect Flying Saucer”

  1. Dave Says:
    April 3rd, 2007 at 1:31 pm

    That first video made me seasick… Can I leave work early?

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