3D Robotics

I don't know much about the RC world, so perhaps this is old news. But it's kind of amazing to watch planes defy gravity. 

From BoingBoing:

Barry writes, "There's a thing called pattern flying, where pilots compete to perfectly execute an elaborate set of compulsory tricks."

They do it for real, RC modelers do it, and they do it indoors with planes lighter than a pack of cigarettes. And the Finnish (because of course there's an international competitive scene) team's rocket scientist/Q has invented a cool counterrotating drive that is rocking this secret world. Mesmerizing - a playful robot fish in a huge tank of water.

2015 Finnish Open F3P-AF Janne Lappi

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  • Slightly faster, but equally beautiful I think.  Low head-speed 3D Heli flight. I must prefer to watch this than hard-core smack-3D.

  • it's achieved by hundreds of hours of practice... with a variable pitch rotor. very agile and very fragile... manual controlled by human brain flight controller.

  • It's as if it were flying on an invisible grid. Very precise.
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  • Wow the plane is so thin its allmost transparent, reminds me of this rubber-band powerd long endurance planes

  • Coaxial drives in f3p planes are not new. The latest ones are using only one motor @1s with large (3dprinted) reduction gears and minimal weight.

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