Print Email Facebook Twitter Flapping micro plane watches where it goes Title Flapping micro plane watches where it goes Author Mols, B. Contributor de Wagter, C. Lentink, D. Date 2005 Abstract In a time span of only ten weeks, a team of eleven highly dedicated students have managed to design a unique flapping miniature aircraft, named DelFly. The aircraft can hover almost motionless in one spot and fly at considerable speed as well while being more stable and less vulnerable than a helicopter. DelFly, only weighing 15 to 21 grammes, carries a miniature video camera on the nose, that observes its surroundingsenabling the Delft aircraft to seek out objects based on the camera images. Last September DelFly attracted a great deal of attention in Germany during an international competition for miniature aircraft, organised by the University of Cambridge. The Delft team won US $35,000 with their unique aircraft. Subject DelFly To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ab2ea9f6-7353-4ca9-94ef-ab278b58bc83 Publisher Delft University of Technology ISSN 0926-7212 Source Delft Outlook, 2005, 4 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2005 B. Mols Files PDF Flapping_2005-4.pdf 858.14 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ab2ea9f6-7353-4ca9-94ef-ab278b58bc83/datastream/OBJ/view