A head-mounted display, a swivelling video camera and a radio-controlled aircraft—fly away with both feet firmly on the ground.
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Rambling recollections of an aging engineer
About Me
- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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- Veckans ord: höjdarbeten
- For Bev
- If he wasn't such an awful player, they would stil...
- In the top 4%
- They don't do them like that anymore
- Veckans ord: riskexponering
- Använd rakblad istället!
- Veckans ord: paradontologi
- Telepresent flying
- It must be all the fish they eat
- Rude, sexist and sophomoric, what more could you a...
- Actually, I think we will end up in the future reg...
- Outside eyes
- Speculative fiction
- Veckans ord: kooperation
- Traffic sign spotting
- Dioder!
- Not to say biolo-chic
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Recently read
- Profile Publications 189: The Short Sunderland G Norris. Somehow I feel too little was covered.
- Profile Publications 168: The Avro York D Hannah. They’re so wrinkly!
- Profile Publications 98: The Gloster Gladiator F K Mason. I think the Norwegians got short shrift.
- Profile Publications 85: The R.E.8 J M Bruce. And this was an improvement on the B.E.2…
- Profile Publications 65: The Avro Lancaster I B Goulding & M Garbett. I would have liked colour keys for the profiles.
- Profile Publications 41: The Supermarine Spitfire I & II P J R Moyes. Somehow they managed to cram useful information into these small leaflets.
Places I keep track of
- IPMS Stockholm One of the best plastic modelling forums you'll find.
- Hyperscale More modelling stuff.
- Occasional kvetch Thnidu is a linguist and an old friend.
- Another CyborgManifesto Small and large, always with alarming skill.
- Aardvarchaeology What kind of archaeologist doesn't have a whip or even a fedora?
- Arkland Archaeology and random bits.
- Pharyngula Biology, politics and atheism. And eight-legged animals.
- Piled Higher and Deeper Mike Slackenerny, that's me. Free food, anyone?
- Something positive Magical realism in a very cynical way.
- Chicken Wings It's about birds…that fly…
- xkcd Don't miss the mouse-overs.
2 comments:
That is so exceptionally cool! And I want one for archaeological survey purposes!
Too bad you need to be able to land the thing. I wish you could just hit a parachute button when you wanted to bring the thing down.
Well, actually there are some RPVs (Remotely Piloted Vehicles, that's soldierspeak for radiocontrolled planes) that have exactly that parachute function. Hobbyists on the other hand usually prefer showing off with nice landings :-)
If you're serious about the survey thing, we can go have a chat with some people I know at SRFK and see what we can work out.
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