But these days, large ships require not just bigger propellers, but smarter, nimbler, greener propellers.
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But unable to dive in while the tug propellers were on, they had to tell the captain to cut the propellers.
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But computer software can easily manage 10 propellers at once, supplying power to the propellers where the most thrust is needed.
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A cage around the propellers spins more slowly than the propellers and is constantly on the lookout for biological material approaching the blades.
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With the addition, propellers would have sensors to direct the drone to fly out of range, stop its propellers or signal a warning to avoid collision.
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Even if three of the four arms have their six propellers disabled, the final arm's working propellers can ensure a rough landing by spiraling toward the ground, he said.
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That makes the aircraft safer and more stable than a helicopter: If one or two propellers were to fail, these aircraft can compensate with the other propellers and land safely.
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Using the same general concept to achieve lift and thrust as conventional rotor based aircraft, instead of mounting propellers on the outside, ducted-fan vehicles contain internal propellers within a larger housing.
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Kaitlyn drowned after being engulfed by the propellers, police said.
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This is pistons, spark plugs, carburetors, magnetos, fuel pumps, propellers.
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Without one, it tends to lose propellers in my carpet.
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Small onboard propellers will stir the payload into the air.
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Now imagine it hovering, propellers rotating parallel to the ground.
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Ceiling fans, designed to resemble propellers, rotated mockingly above him.
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It doesn't come with a tail, rudder, propellers or gearbox.
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The craft then switches to two rear propellers for thrust.
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But finding your hair caught in the propellers of a drone?
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In the case of propellers, the cavities erode the blades' substance.
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Case in point: really big ships, and their equally huge propellers.
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The aircraft does not have a tail, rudder, propellers or gearbox.
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Forearms spin at the elbows like propellers, revving up then reversing.
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Notice how Propel expertly hides the transparent propellers underneath the drone body.
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Some have included propellers inside the liquid, but this one will not.
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They are powered by a pair of propellers driven by electric motors.
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You'll see the gimbal adjust and the propellers do a small twitch.
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All those fifteen or twenty milk crates along the wall contain propellers.
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Now that Rainford is publicly known, Duchamp scholars are whirling their propellers.
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Then you listen for the sound of propellers and watch the sky.
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Ten propellers twirled around her as I watched from 50 feet away.
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Propellers made from phosphor bronze can fetch as much as $2,500 per ton.
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It has a cabin that sprouts eight struts, each fitted with two propellers.
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So I really want to be able to keep both as my propellers.
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In its case, two propellers are mounted forward and one at the rear.
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With propellers folded up, it's designed to fit in a single parking spot.
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The drones sport four propellers positioned below the body as opposed to above.
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Melendez was sucked underneath the boat and ripped to pieces by the propellers.
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I've snapped propellers and once cracked a panel on a particularly flimsy quadcopter.
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Consumer drones use electric motors to power the propellers that make them airborne.
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An extra "Fly More" package comes with extra propellers and starts at $999.
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We marveled at the path propellers make from our mouths to our stomach.
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Tilting the propellers improves the drone's aerodynamic profile, says the company, reducing drag.
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Unlike most drones, the propellers are positioned on the belly instead of on top.
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This craft has eight rotors, which act as propellers for take-off and landing.
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Within seconds, the lower half of my body was lodged between the boat's propellers.
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"A drone is really just a flying robot with propellers," Qualcomm's Yan Chenwei said.
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It has four plastic propellers, one at each corner of a cruciform plastic frame.
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Raked tips on the propellers and an adjusted motor means things run more quietly.
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Supported by clouds, model-scale biplanes with working propellers buzz around that great ape.
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My only criticism of the video is that you can sometimes see the propellers.
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The propellers aren't quite functional, but they do spin when you shake the canister!
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The rod connects the motor at the plane's front to propellers at the back.
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The rendering of this vehicle looks almost like a bus with propellers on top.
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A 1959 design by Einarsson Einar has front and back propellers, plus adjustable wings.
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A $999 "Fly More Combo" scores you even more accessories, extra propellers, and other goodies.
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One way to cut fuel consumption is to reduce drag by redesigning hulls and propellers.
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But those drones all require power, and a lot of it, to turn their propellers.
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Unless you want dried pine needles strewn everywhere, or propellers stuck in your walls.[YouTube]
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One thing that makes quad-copters safer than helicopters are its numerous propellers, Xiong said.
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Instead, the Mavic Pro folds up neatly, propellers and all, and fits inside a backpack.
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There is just one company in the U.S. that can repair propellers for Navy submarines.
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Since then, Federal-Mogul has produced components for boat propellers and a NASA space shuttle.
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How the drones work Intel's drones are large LED lights strapped with propellers and sensors.
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New, more efficient propellers and even retrofitted old ones can cut down on noise dramatically.
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Lesser drones tend to bounce up and down as the wind overtakes their tiny propellers.
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The motor, camera, and propellers aren't edible, but the rest of it is, in theory.
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For years, four propellers have been standard for consumer drones, offering greater power and stability.
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Another guided-missile cruiser, Antietam, damaged its propellers in January while anchoring in Tokyo Bay.
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After the tanks had been refilled and the propellers greased the plane was taken down.
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Like a real-world, robotic kaleidoscope, set to the soundtrack of dozens of tiny whirring propellers.
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The propellers are arranged in such a way to counterbalance the weight of the drone itself.
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That meant, for starters, avoiding variable-pitch propellers, which adjust their blade angle to regulate speed.
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The propellers are made by France's Ratier-Figeac on behalf of Airbus, which supplies the nacelle.
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The aluminum and plywood drone has 48 propellers that sound like an angry swarm of superbees.
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The drone spins up its twin propellers and flies a few hundred feet up, circling overhead.
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Some say they have spent more than $10,000 on frames, motors, batteries, propellers and camera mounts.
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It's instead powered by four tiny propellers, since it started out as a tiny quadcopter toy.
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As the propellers spin up, the remote helpfully announces that the drone is ready to launch.
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Propellers and engines produce sounds in the same low-frequency range that whales use to communicate.
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This 1921 design by Henry J Snook has propellers that lift it up in the air.
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An airplane with 10 propellers is just too complex for a human pilot to manage effectively.
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"The bronze propellers off of larger vessels are worth 40 to 50 thousands dollars," said Professor Staniforth.
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In one office, watch 3D printers whir, making knobs and propellers to build even more 3D printers.
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The plane is built on a mid-sized regional turboprob, using the existing airframe, systems and propellers.
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Bell simplified the V-280 with a setup that swings the propellers but keeps the engines stationary.
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"The electrical propeller motors are controlled by drives that control the speed of the propellers," Gamper explained.
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But quadcopters don't have wings, and their propellers are cheap and easy to swap out when broken.
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As I approached the boat to hop back on, the force of its propellers pulled me in.
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My shrieks told the driver to cut the engine immediately, but that didn't cause the propellers to.
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Since 2013, it's made over $203,000 in sales and sold 210 conversion kits and 45 folding propellers.
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The US Navy, meanwhile, has been making its subs quieter by adding shrouds around their conventional propellers.
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With one seat and 10 propellers, it's 13 feet long, 7.5 feet wide, and 5 feet tall.
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The four arms fold into the body and the propellers tuck in without a need for dissembling.
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That price includes additional propellers, a carrying case, a charging hub and, most notably, two extra batteries.
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I could fit the entire system — the drone, detachable propellers and the remote control — in my backpack.
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The ship damaged its propellers and spilled hydraulic oil into the water off the coast of Japan.
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In late January, the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam ran aground in Tokyo Bay, damaging its propellers.
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In one corner stood Leonardo's helicopter, which resembled the eliche propellers we had eaten that first day.
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Uber Elevate envisions using electric propulsion, the different prototypes using multiple propellers, much like today's unmanned drones.
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This quietjet engine can power propellers, generate electricity for electric motors, or even produce its own thrust.
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Makani attempts to harness renewable energy from wind by using propellers on airborne kites to generate electricity.
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The egg-shaped aircraft hovers using eight propellers — two attached to each of the drone's four arms.
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Ice-class tankers usually have double hulls, strengthened structures to withstand battering from the ice, and reinforced propellers.
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This plane features three propellers, two on the wingtips and one in the rear of the plane body.
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We've had colossal propellers since the days of the Titanic, with its solid bronze, ten-foot-blade props.
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He pointed to ABB's Azipod thrusters, propellers of up to 20 feet that combine an entire propulsion system.
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It was a little chaotic, mostly just because the propellers were very loud as planes came and went.
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But the biggest risk is that the rope will get entangled in the ship's propellers in high seas.
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Karem Karem's "Butterfly" concept is a quad tiltrotor with four large propellers mounted on the wings and tail.
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The patent shows a unit that features a display at the center with four propellers on each corner.
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"In the long-term future, planes shouldn't have propellers and turbines," Barrett said in an MIT news release.
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Most toy drones come with a couple of spare propellers to get you flying again after a crash.
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He created the hoverbike, a seatless, brake-less contraption powered by two motorized propellers in place of wheels.
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There's concern around safety, too; drone propellers alone are enough to give parents a good bit of anxiety.
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The lift propellers will be activated for take-off and landings, but retract during the flight's cruise phase.
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The lift propellers will be activated for take-off and landings, but retract during the flight's cruise phase.
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And in late January, the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam ran aground in Tokyo Bay, damaging its propellers.
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I'll admit to being nervous: I could have ended up with nasty cuts, or worse, from the propellers.
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This was the original plan of the Wright brothers — wisely abandoned in favor of fixed wings and propellers.
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Larry D. Long's 2003 design is a departure from earlier uses of wings and propellers, using rotors instead.
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Joby Aviation is working a two-seat airplane design that has 12 propellers for takeoff — four on the wings and four on the tail — that fold up once the aircraft is airborne, switching to four additional propellers optimized for horizontal flight: And of course, this is still a young field.
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Using a helicopter could be an option, but the airflow caused by its propellers may also trigger new rockslides.
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The propellers make the aircraft's engines less susceptible to debris flying in and causing operational problems for the engines.
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It only has propellers, with skids to land, but no wheels to allow it to roam over the surface.
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But Gamper told me massive propellers can actually play a role in making these behemoth machines a little greener.
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With the combo you get two additional batteries, five replacement propellers, a car charger, charging hub, and travel bag.
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"Our wing has the cruise propellers at the wingtip, and that reduces the drag of the wingtip," Clarke said.
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Traditionally, bacteria's corkscrew tail has been the design inspiration for helical propellers that move a nanobot through the bloodstream.
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No one wants drone debris, including spinning propellers, flying all over the place when the two drone make contact.
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Especially when you compare it to previous Parrot drones that stuck blade guards around the propellers and weren't collapsible.
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Existing Mavic Pro owners can get some of the benefits with the new propellers alone, which are backwards compatible.
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Once the mother ship reaches distant reefs, these are lowered and the propellers used to chew up submerged coral.
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Perhaps Westeros has finally entered its version of the industrial revolution and equipped all the boats with motorized propellers!
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That one crate is full of bags of propellers made by the propeller company that's one of our sponsors.
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Stretched out beneath four massive propellers capable of lifting the weight of a full grown man is a hammock.
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The plane has two electric motors and two propellers, one that runs clockwise and one that runs anti-clockwise.
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Other developments include drones with legs and a safety feature to disable propellers when they're near a foreign object.
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The propellers of the cruise industry are an aging population and consumers' desire for less choice and frictionless leisure.
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The Spark's propellers quickly spun up and a moment later I released my grip and the drone floated up.
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It only has propellers, with skids to land, but no wheels to allow it to roam over the surface.
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MAKANI POWER Makani attempts to harness renewable energy from wind by using propellers on airborne kites to generate electricity.
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Once the plane is soaring through the sky, the eight vertical propellers can be turned off to save power.
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The drone will be sold for $603 with a remote controller, one battery, and a set of extra propellers, or in one of DJI's "Fly More" combo packs, which costs $499 and includes propellor guards, three batteries, a battery charging hub, a carrying case, a controller, and three sets of extra propellers.
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To harness this bacterial carpet of propellers, the researchers take advantage of the innate negative charge of gram negative bacteria.
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The ships' propellers are made of phosphor bronze, which according to the Telegraph report is worth around $4,700 per ton.
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There's also a $7993 combo pack that includes two additional batteries and propellers, a charging hub and a travel bag.
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The additional thrusters or e-propellers also help stability, allowing a more streamlined airframe to reduce drag and consumption further.
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The plane will run on a distributed hybrid propulsion system, which includes a turbogenerator that powers electric motors and propellers.
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Once in the air, the rotors swivel forward, the way a plane's propellers sit, to allow high speed forward flight.
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It runs on electricity, and has several stacked propellers that allow for both a vertical lift and a forward thrust.
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Sublue's scooter has dual propellers that can zoom through water at 3.35 mph and go as deep as 131 feet.
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Their high torque is ideal for turning propellers or ducted fans (a circular set of blades contained within a shroud).
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Figure 4 also shows a side view with the joint manipulators (113) and propellers that can change the thrust direction.
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The plastic cage that makes up the saucer section does a great job at absorbing impacts, and protecting the propellers.
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Occasionally the drone's propellers will get stuck in the saucer's protective cage, but otherwise the USS Enterprise is remarkably durable.
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Equally as important, the eight plastic propellers (two per motor) fold in on top of each other for easy storage.
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The top of the wings are equipped with 17,23 solar cells that power propellers and charge batteries onboard the aircraft.
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They usually have four propellers, but variations can have six or eight or more; people even build fifty-propeller drones.
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It resembled one of those trays which fit over your lap when you have breakfast in bed, only with propellers.
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Which depicts a scenario in which a drone drops its propellers and such before crashing into a handy dandy tree.
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The project has been in development since 2014 and has been described as a drone like flying-taxi with propellers.
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Turbulence, both from the KC-130's propellers and wings as well as from weather conditions, can affect the planes.
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The BYRD's arms and propellers fold in tight to its body, reducing its length from 24.5 inches to 10.7 inches.
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The concept vehicle will be all-electric, using distributed electric propulsion, powered by multiple rotors and propellers around the airframe.
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Rolls-Royce said once cruise height is reached, propellers on the wing fold away to reduce drag and cabin noise.
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Neomam's rending of the design has the look of a classic '60s style car and shows the propellers in motion.
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Its turbo fan propellers send it up to 65 feet in the air to take wide-angle, truly original photos.
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The propellers were bent, the engine coverings were crushed, and the tanks were ruptured, but Fletcher had saved everyone's life.
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The Otters, driven by two propellers, are designed to fly in extreme cold and land on skis on the compacted snow.
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It's a single prototype that's made out of foam, plastic and a set of propellers that takes it into the air.
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Instead, in apps like The Robot Factory, sounds are limited to effects — like the whirring of propellers — or added voice input.
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The company previously unveiled the PowerEgg drone which folds up its legs and propellers to form a smooth, 2-kilogram egg.
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The Fly More Combo includes three batteries, the controller, extra propellers, a car charger, battery charging hub, and a travel bag.
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The propellers have a raked design on the wing tips, designed to help cut down on air drag and reduce sound.
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But rather than having them stick out from the sides, the four propellers are cleverly hidden inside the Enterprise's saucer section.
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The design also allows the drone's propellers to be hidden inside, so as not to obstruct images or videos being displayed.
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" The vehicle, being developed under the title CityAirbus, would have "multiple propellers and also resemble a small drone in its design.
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It costs $249, which gets you the drone, Fat Shark's Recon FPV goggles, two batteries, and some spare motors and propellers.
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Click here to view original GIFThe more propellers and motors you add to a drone, the more weight it can lift.
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When the propeller fell off his Rans S-10 kit plane—apparently propellers can do that—Penell did not freak out.
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"There's just one company in the U.S. that can repair propellers for Navy submarines," he added in a briefing with reporters.
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DJI will also offer a pro pack that includes the drone, controller, shoulder carrying case, extra batteries and propellers for $1,299.
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He raced remote-controlled cars, boats and airplanes until he discovered quadcopters (drones with four propellers) a couple of years ago.
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Rather than noisy propellers, which can become mired in seagrass and potentially injure wildlife, GRACE moves more naturally through the lake.
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For example, the propellers above are based on the same file but the one labelled A has been modified to fail.
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But when he plugged it in, the motor was on, and one of the propellers sliced the back of the pinkie.
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They needed not one but two propellers, which could be spun in opposite directions to create a kind of rotating wing.
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The Queen Elizabeth 2 has two huge variable-pitch propellers, each with a diameter of 22 feet and weighing 43 tons.
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However, the electricity produced is transferred to an electric motor rather than so-called reduction gears to spin the boat&aposs propellers.
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The combo comes with a lot of other stuff that you'll definitely want, like propeller guards, extra propellers, and an extra battery.
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That machine runs at up to 30,000 rotations per minute, which Hirschi says is necessary to create precise blades for his propellers.
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The drone's 16 propellers hummed loudly as it rose above the pitch at Vienna's Generali Arena, home to soccer club Austria Wien.
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The water sports theme leads to the spinning of long red paddles and short red drumsticks, propellers that propel the dance nowhere.
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Just as I reached up to grab the drone, it spun out of control and my fingers got caught in the propellers.
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Propellers, which are made of phosphor bronze, are among the most valuable objects on these sunken vessels, fetching over $2,500 a ton.
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You get the carrying case (which is like an extra-large glasses case), the controller, spare propellers, and a quick start guide.
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The drone's 13 propellers hummed loudly as it rose above the pitch at Vienna's Generali Arena, home to soccer club Austria Wien.
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The YUNEEC Typhoon H copped a broken leg, a broken boom on its arms, two broken propellers and a semi-twisted camera.
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The hydrophone also picked up sound from ship propellers, likely from cargo ships headed to and from Guam, China and the Philippines.
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Unless you slam down the power button as quickly as possible, the thing will tip and you'll be out a few propellers.
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It has a learning curve, so it will take practice, and probably means, as you'll also be breaking propellers at high speed.
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Airboats, built to skim atop the calf-deep water with their flat bottoms and back-seat propellers, helped crack open the door.
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Eschewing the conventional thrusters or ruddered propellers of most underwater robots, GRACE instead packs a powerful tail fin to propel it forward.
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It will include the drone, the glasses, a controller, extra propellers, a battery, a 16GB microSD card, and a USB-C cable.
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The carbon-fiber enclosure makes the drone light enough to be exempt from FAA registration and protects the four propellers from injuring anyone.
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Asked to elaborate a little, Wiegand says there are many differences in the details, such as using electric jet engines not open propellers.
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A drone, or quadcopter as it's technically called, typically has four propellers to generate enough thrust to let it hover in the air.
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It looks more like a computer mouse than any aircraft you've seen, and its 36 small propellers run on electricity, not jet fuel.
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Traditionally, Gamper explained, propellers would be connected to a long shaft line and powered by a mechanical diesel motor to move the ship.
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GoPro touted the Karma's foldable design, but the actual drone is larger than it looks, even with its propellers and landing skids collapsed.
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"Stacked co-rotating rotors or propellers have two rotor systems placed on top of each other rotating in the same direction," Uber says.
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As a result of the aircrafts design (skid landing gear, low-slung engines and propellers), the operator expected some damage during normal landings.
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It comes with the drone, a battery, three pairs of propellers, a remote control, two RC cables, and a USB charger for $399.
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In the second patent, Amazon laid out its ideas for robotic propellers that could help the drone face less resistance in the air.
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So Robert McIntosh designed and built his own which uses four closely packed propellers that each barely measure a few inches in size.
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The V-280 Valor also has two propellers which rotate from horizontal airplane mode to a vertical position, which allows for helicopter mode.
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And anyone that has ever built racing drones know they need a lot of maintenance – manually installing and swapping out propellers, batteries etc.
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Typically when you connect a drone to the battery pack the propellers aren't supposed to start until you "arm it" from the controller.
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The microphone also picked up on man-made noises such as ship propellers, which makes sense since Guam is a regional shipping hub.
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And understanding how much damage a drone's spinning propellers can inflict on humans will allow them to be designed safer in the future.
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Even social media companies like AirVuz and framemakers like FloRotoRs sponsor pilots, helping defray the cost of parts like frames and spare propellers.
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A soft robot fish from China's Zhejiang University swims by ditching the usual rigid motors and propellers for an artificial muscle which flexes.
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There were some glitches: displaced air from the drone's propellers disrupted the spray pattern and there were some other kinks in the workflow.
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"Grab it at the bottom, not the top!" he warned — the sturdy legs of the drone were much safer than the spinning propellers.
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The parts that would likely be attacked are the steering gear (the rudders and rudder posts) and the propulsion elements (shafts and propellers).
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The twin propellers are pushing huge sums of money into the United States economy, which already appears to be in extremely good shape.
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With art installations made of propellers, the 100-room hotel facing a recreational marina nods to the shrimp-trawling boats across the channel.
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The effect, as Shanks explains, is known as "temporal aliasing," which can be observed in slow-motion propellers, spinning rings and other objects.
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Each Makani energy kite, which resembles a wing with eight propellers, weighs 11 tonnes, compared with about 100 tonnes for a comparable 600kW turbine.
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It's a vertical take-off and landing system that uses 18 propellers powered by 18 electric motors to move a person across the sky.
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Safeguards included backup propellers and motors, dual batteries, a backup power distribution board and a parachute recovery system, in case the entire aircraft fails.
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Inches before impact, he levels out the machine, its propellers gnashing the grass like a weed whacker, and gently lands it 5 feet away.
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We're told the original job -- from a friend's recommendation -- had a front grill made of chicken wire and rims that 'looked like boat propellers.
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The initial testing phase of the aircraft will use two electric motors mounted under the wings and spinning propellers, similar to conventional piston engines.
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A tilting design allows for the drone to use the same six propellers to fly forward as it does for take off and landing.
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It's sold as a bundle, which includes a remote control, two extra intelligent flight batteries, two additional pairs of propellers, and an aircraft sleeve.
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Its two-seater, Cora, has 12 small lifting propellers and a single, large, rear-mounted one to drive the thing forward when in flight.
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Skye Aero is a project to build 10-foot helium-filled balloons, with small propellers attached to give better control than your average blimp.
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While most flying robots use rigid wings and propellers to create lift, researchers sought to recreate a bat's unique structure and complex wing flap.
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Sure, there are gliders and dirigibles, which float more than fly, but powered flight is all about propellers (that's why they call them that).
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While four propellers capable of chopping off your head just feet above doesn't seem very relaxing, we commend Centraal Beheer for its hilarious ad.
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Although the planes NOAA uses are specially designed for this type of work, the amount of force on those propellers is still deeply concerning.
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Getting your hair caught in anything can hurt, but getting your hair caught in the moving propellers of a drone must be the worst.
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It also features improved turbofan propellers that can send it up to 65 feet in the air, as opposed to the previous 30 feet.
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Ladies have options for up top, including "Knock Knockers" (literal door knockers you put on your nipples) and "Mile Highs" (which are little propellers).
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A quad lacks rudders and flaps to control its flight; instead, it maneuvers by adjusting the speed and sometimes the angle of its propellers.
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A minute later, I saw three spinning propellers, which seemed improbably small for the size of their load, like the wings of a bumblebee.
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The plane's wings, which stretch wider than those of a Boeing 747, are equipped with 17,000 solar cells that power propellers and charge batteries.
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And despite being called a flying car, the all electric aircraft with eight propellers looks more like a drone with a person on top.
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The powerful Spectre has four high-speed propellers, an HD camera, 50-meter range, and an app so you can watch your footage live.
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Check it out in action: It's equipped with two flexible wings to conquer the skies instead of the four propellers found on traditional drones.
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It appears as though these test runs were pretty harmless—at worst, Reeves is probably a little sore from being hit with cheap drone propellers.
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The four propellers also house dual band antennas that are switched between based on signal strength to provide pilots the strongest connection during a flight.
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But puny propellers don't cut it for serious jobs, which is why military missions and humanitarian aid drops use unmanned aerial drones that resemble airplanes.
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The aim is for the smaller motors to add additional lift for takeoff and landing, folding away their propellers during the flight to reduce drag.
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In the past five or so years many ships' propellers have been fitted with tip fins analogous to the turbulence-reducing upturned winglets on aeroplanes.
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Columbia drifts through the skies above America—and beyond—carried by blimps and balloons and driven by reactors and propellers, and something called quantum levitation.
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Many drones have protective housings around their propellers to protect the blades, but Flyability's Gimball wraps the entire craft in a specially-designed wire cage.
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As soon as this maneuver starts and the drone collapses, it starts falling out of the sky as its propellers are no longer providing thrust.
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The flying taxi developed by German drone firm Volocopter resembles a small, two-seater helicopter cabin topped by a wide hoop studded with 18 propellers.
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With eight propellers that provide balance, it's designed more like a drone than a traditional helicopter — so it's better described as a personal drone octocopter.
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Yuneec claims it can keep flying even if one of the propellers fails The brick-like battery slides neatly into the Yuneec Typhoon H body.
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The way DJI has been able to achieve the updates with the Mavic Pro Platinum is via new electronic speed controllers and brand new propellers.
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On the other hand, other kinds of military robots—ones that move on wheels, tracks, wings, and propellers—are already seeing use on the battlefield.
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In reality, this ridiculous thing is used by NASA to test new electric aircraft technologies, like a weird wing with 18 tiny propellers on it.
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Holding down longer makes Mario jump higher and tapping again while in the air helps slow the landing by using his arms as makeshift propellers.
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My point being, the Air was able to handle two minor collisions and was no worse for wear, besides a few dings on its propellers.
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The information that tells the propellers' motors how and when to change their spin arrives through radio signals, which onboard hardware translates into computer code.
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These are spiderlike devices with four or more propellers (thus often known as quadcopters, hexacopters, octocopters and so on) that provide both lift and thrust.
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These include upgrading engines, propellers that are more fuel efficient, and increasing the capacity of the vessel so more containers can be carried on board.
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The size of a shoe box, the Manbo used tiny propellers to hover and glide through water in a manner similar to an aerial drone.
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It has four propellers and is modeled on a Russian prototype from the late 1950s, according to a description in the Chinese state news media.
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Veronica said she believed he threw himself off a ferry, purposefully aiming to go under the propellers so that no one would find his body.
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It's driven by a trio of propellers, and most of the interior is given over to payload (it can carry about 450 pounds) and batteries.
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Honestly, I don't even look back anymore to see how it's doing — I just listen for the buzz of propellers to know it's still there.
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Mr. Caspers said he decided that the narrow canal was not suited to the ferry, which had its propellers set several feet from its center.
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So Zee Aero's design has eight vertical propellers that are used for takeoff, while there are just two in the back to provide horizontal thrust.
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According to the Dutch-led diving expedition, in addition to the missing ships, the propellers from the wreck of the British destroyer Electra had been removed.
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The Dragon has four thrusters (which look like drone propellers) in the hull that pivot, allowing them to power the sub up, down, forward or back.
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They react to the frequency of propellers as boats are going down and it causes them to have a startle response; they jump out of water.
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It has retrofitted more than 250 ships in its fleet with the latest design features including propellers and bulbous bows, as well as better-performing engines.
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One is that the propellers and rotors used to lift conventional aircraft are not effective at small scales, where the viscosity of air is a problem.
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Its prototype rises dronelike into the air, lifted by electrically driven propellers at the end of its wings (which have a combined span of three metres).
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Image: NASAThe new images reveal up-close views of "propellers," or structures that look like gaps in the rings caused by one of Saturn's 62 moons.
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In a company video showing it flying, it looks like a small helicopter but with four doubled propellers spinning parallel to the ground like other drones.
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Open propellers chopped the water around them, gasoline ate away their wet suits, and fire planes, swooping down to refill their buckets, bisected their shore runs.
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The basic pack comes with Legos, a flightboard, eight motor boom-arms and motors, eight propellers, a rechargeable battery, a charging cord, and a little pilot.
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The "Propeller Pasties" attach to her breasts and sense how erect her nipples are, spinning the propellers fasters as her nipples rise to meet the sensor.
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He has invested part of his personal wealth in Kitty Hawk, a start-up that has demonstrated a personal aircraft that flies using propellers over water.
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Energy remains a major challenge in robotics: It takes a lot of power to run a robot's sensors and get its limbs or propellers to move.
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It was an open-seated, 23-pound contraption with room for one person, powered by eight battery-powered propellers that howled as loudly as a speedboat.
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It was an open-seated, 220-pound contraption with room for one person, powered by eight battery-powered propellers that howled as loudly as a speedboat.
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The Volocopter looks a lot like a giant quadcopter drone — except that it has 18 propellers instead of the four you'll find on a normal quadcopter.
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The day after my visit, Cox and his team began to disassemble Aquila, weighing each component and testing the structure and all the motors, transistors, and propellers.
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Cassini's final photo as it heads into Saturn's atmosphere will likely be of propellers, or gaps in the rings caused by moonlets, said project scientist Linda Spilker.
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The arms and propellers can be folded up so the drone can fit into a bag or small carrying case, making it much easier to travel with.
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The Solar Impulse 2's wings, which stretch wider than those of a Boeing 747, are equipped with 17,000 solar cells that power propellers and charge batteries.
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But that's why it comes with its own backpack, which is large enough to hold all of its included parts and some additional accessories (like extra propellers).
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Its four propellers also fold into the body and its controller folds up too, making it easy to carry around in something like a parka jacket pocket.
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The team also avoided a tilting-wing configuration, another common VTOL strategy that mounts the propellers on the wing and pitches the whole assembly up and down.
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While the front two arms fold into the body, the rear arms actually fold underneath the drone, helping to greatly reduce its footprint, along with foldable propellers.
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And the whirring of propellers aside, it was pretty quiet on my visit, though maybe that's to be expected for a new store on a Monday afternoon.
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Suddenly, it makes sense: The core of the body is a vessel, with the hands and legs spinning like propellers to keep it suspended in aqueous space.
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To make things worse, as the injured submarine was lifted from the water, a violent swell smashed it against the ship's stern, damaging a set of propellers.
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Directly overhead, suspended by wires from the ceiling, is the Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh's primitive plane, not much more than a metal box with propellers.
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Torres' passion for saving dogs began around the same time she started working in 1996 for Landing Products, a manufacturer of propellers for remote control aircraft, including drones.
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Her husband decided to land the drone on her back, but it quickly all went downhill when the spinning propellers somehow managed to take hold of her hair.
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Powered by five propellers and sporting a camera on its front and back ends, the football-sized robot was remotely operated via a tether attached to its rear.
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DJI launched the limited edition Mavic Pro Alpine White today, an all-white version of the Mavic Pro with a color-coordinated remote control and propellers to match.
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Its prototype, which has rear-mounted wings, a pair of canards and is propelled by electrically powered ducted fans rather than propellers, made its maiden flight in May.
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Kyre, 11, appears to have taken a page from Knight Rider with the Hennessey K-cell GT, an electric car with foldable wheels that also double as propellers.
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That means it uses its rotors for vertical take-off and landing, but for horizontal flight it tilts them forward to operate like the propellers of an aeroplane.
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The Professional Union of Scuba Divers and Marine Staff from Zulia state had previously requested that PDVSA replace the propellers with a different propulsion system, the organization said.
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As it touched down, a Yorkie terrier came running toward it, but stopped a few feet short of the Staaker while its whirring propellers kicked up considerable dust.
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The guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam ran aground in late January while anchoring near Yokosuka, damaging its propellers and discharging 1,100 gallons of hydraulic oil into the bay.
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Simply download DJI's mobile phone app, attach the propellers to the machine, turn the drone and remote controller on and the app guides you through the setup process.
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The results could help engineers design drone propellers that still provide adequate lift, but at the same time easily break apart on impact to prevent injury or damage.
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It has four high-speed propellers, an HD camera, and an impressive 50-meter range, allowing you to sail through hard-to-reach areas and take beautiful images.
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It deploys the parachute within 30 milliseconds at 90 mph, through a tube that rapidly inflates to keep the parachute lines away from the drone body and propellers.
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The X-57's version of shifting into high gear is shutting off those 12 engines and letting their propellers fold back to become flush with the wing.
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The Wing drone is a hybrid that includes, yes, wings for horizontal flying, as well as miniaturized propellers — like a helicopter's — that allow for hovering over a destination.
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There's a natural cause for concern for drone use among kids; after all, the fast-spinning propellers alone are enough to give parents a healthy dose of anxiety.
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How are we humans supposed to blend in to uncover all of its secrets, when our observation tools are hooked to clunky vehicles with fish-scaring propellers and jets?
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With riders on specially designed bikes, human energy will be used, along with energy captured from solar panels and photovoltaic cells on the gym roof, to activate electric propellers.
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And modern propellers are integrated with smart, data-collecting sensors that help track how a ship is moving and make more efficient decisions, while also tracking any maintenance needs.
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The Osprey, built by Boeing Co and Textron Inc's Bell Helicopter unit, is designed to take off like a helicopter and rotate its propellers to fly like a plane.
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The propellers also feature a clever design that lets them fold up too, so that you don't have to install them and uninstall them every time you move locations.
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The quadcopter's propellers are also protected by covered cages – all features designed to ensure the drone is safe to fly, is splash-proof and can fly in light rain.
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Each year, there are hundreds of examples of medical procedures used to save the lives of sea turtles injured by boat propellers or fishing gear, or sickened by pollution.
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So we put motors and propellers on it, and the next day we tried it, and it flew pretty well, for a fairly heavy three-foot-high racing trophy.
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Also in the carrying case is the charger for both the RC and the drone's 24 mAh intelligent battery, two sets of propellers and instructions, which are worth reading.
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It looks how you'd expect a drone to look, with four propellers and a camera mounted on the body, and its compact size makes it a great travel companion.
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And a piece of one of the propellers from the Wright brothers' Flyer — the first powered airplane — that Armstrong also took with him to the moon sold for $275,000.
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The vehicle, called the Scorpion and designed by Russian tech company Hoversurf, relies on four propellers to stay airborne, with the rider crouched precariously close to the exposed blades.
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The whole custom-built contraption, whose two small propellers will be steered from the ground, will also include a variety of sensors to collect data on any aerosol plume.
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Slicing through it all are Thailand's most ubiquitous and distinctive crafts—long-tail boats, like big canoes powered by diesel truck engines with protruding drive shafts tipped with propellers.
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To pull this off in the same small, foldable form factor that the Mavic is known for, DJI used better electronic speed controllers and "freshly designed propellers," the company says.
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The aircraft, with a flattened profile and propellers at its wing tips, was designed as an electric plane from the ground up, said Omer Bar-Yohay, Eviation's founder and CEO.
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LONDON (Reuters) - From higher-quality paint to state-of-the-art propellers: shipping companies are looking in every corner to reduce their carbon footprint as investor and activist pressure increases.
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The carbon-fiber aircraft weighs over 5,000 lbs, and is equipped with more than 17,240 solar cells stretched out on its wings, which helps power the propellers and electric engines.
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The carbon-fiber aircraft itself weighs 22016,22 kg, and is equipped with more than 217,216 solar cells stretched out on its wings, which helps power the propellers and electric engines.
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Unfortunately, the camera stopped working the very first time I took it out, and somehow the Hubsan's brittle propellers still managed to push past the guard and impact my walls.
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But for now, the prototype drone (which has propellers that spin at 46,000 RPMs) was just built to break the record and show off the future potential of DRL drones.
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But what makes it an effective bird-deterrent—besides the loud whir of its four spinning propellers—is a built in megaphone that blasts predator calls and bird distress cries.
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When he connected the battery pack to the drone one of the propellers started spinning at full throttle, and his pinkie finger on his pitching hand was in the way.
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Parrot Bebop Parrot launched the company's new Bebop drone in March with a chassis that was lightweight and built with safety in mind, as the propellers immediately stops on collision.
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For takeoff and landing, 12 smaller 9-kilowatt motors powering two-foot-wide propellers will kick in to blow extra air over the skinny wings to generate the necessary lift.
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Keep in mind though, that the drone shown here is a Freefly Systems Alta 8— a $17,495 beast of a drone with eight propellers intended to carry heavy video equipment.
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The buoy would record ambient ocean noises, from the whir of passing ships' propellers or the vibrations of distant offshore oil drilling, to the high-pitched clicks of Beluga whales.
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Called "deadbeat foot placement hopping control," the Salto can now watch a surface for a target and essentially fly over to where it needs to land using built-in propellers.
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Included in the box with the XEagle Sport model I received was the drone, eight propellers, a battery, charger, a smartwatch and its magnetic charger, and a Flypro action camera.
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Add to this the reduced battery drain from running fewer propellers and the drone's compact form when the two arms are folded, and you have a pretty convincing sales pitch.
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I implicitly trust it to flip open its new self-tightening propellers, take off from my hand, and automatically film me walking or scooting around a park dense with foliage.
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Drone racing has become a dizzying spectacle, but races rarely last longer than a few minutes because four propellers also require four electric motors which can quickly drain a battery.
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Kaitlyn's father jumped into the water to save her, but his legs were severely injured by the houseboat's propellers and doctors later had to amputate them, local TV station KWKT reports.
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Simply put, it's a relatively lightweight walking robot that balances more like a drone than a typical bipedal bot — because it's literally got a set of drone propellers instead of arms.
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Emanuele Grimaldi, president and managing director of Italian shipping company Grimaldi Group, said apart from changing the paint that the firm uses, it has modified propellers for 30 of its ships.
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Its tiny propellers would be a considerably safer way to deliver packages to people, although a giant inflatable balloon would almost certainly be an easy target for armed anti-drone protesters.
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"Boat traffic has to be regulated to prevent mechanical damage to coral reefs due to anchoring and boat propellers," Dr Toh Tai Chong, a research fellow with the institute, told Mashable.
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The DOD's version of that secretes its own mucous gunk—one idea is to affix the contraption to autonomous watercraft—fine-tuned to ensnare the propellers of enemy ships and submarines.
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Amid a shower of propellers and parts, the UAV drops to the slate-gray sea below, where presumably it'll be torn apart by hungry jetski riders happy at a clean kill.
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There's also a $499 package that includes three batteries, an extra set of propellers, a carrying case, a charging hub that will also charge your phone and some beefy propeller cages.
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The Post opens with the familiar Hollywood shorthand for the Vietnam War: American men in camouflage, a dirt clearing amid jungle vegetation, the sounds of helicopter propellers and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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In the off-season, the captains also learned staple boatyard skills such as hauling the hulking ferries out of the water and swapping out brass propellers the size of truck tires.
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For the third episode of ETA, Motherboard shows how its vertical take-off and landing system uses 18 propellers powered by 18 electric motors to move a person across the sky.
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The car also featured "a bank of four propellers" in the back of the vehicle that let it move underwater while being powered by electric motors in a water-tight compartment.
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In May, a South Korean fishing vessel collided with the guided-missile cruiser Lake Champlain, while another guided-missile cruiser, Antietam, damaged its propellers in January while anchoring in Tokyo Bay.
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It comes complete with propellers and a wide-angle camera, allowing you to record awesome footage as it zips through the air at speeds of up to 20 miles per hour.
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Unlike the Wright Flyer, and all powered aircraft since, the use of an ion drive means the MIT craft contains no moving propulsion parts in the form of propellers or jet engines.
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The team drove it slowly and carefully, but time after time, the bot's powerful propellers would stir up a blinding cloud of sediment, forcing them to wait until the water cleared again.
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Once you place your hand under the drone's the downward-facing camera, it sees your palm and gently lands on it, turning off the propellers as soon as it hits your hand.
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These are mounted, one on each wing tip (where they also serve to reduce drag) and one at the stern, with the propellers facing backwards to push the plane through the air.
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FLYING BATTERY The aircraft, with a flattened profile and propellers at its wing tips, was designed as an electric plane from the ground up, said Omer Bar-Yohay, Eviation's founder and CEO.
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It had the added benefit of making the engine housings appear to be covered in thick white down, which went a surprisingly long way toward relieving customer anxiety over sharp, whirling propellers.
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Vitagene Premium Health DNA kit, ancestry DNA test, and reports — $84.99 with code 'SEMIANNUAL' See Details Powerful propellers and a wide-angle camera make this the coolest paper airplane you've ever flown.
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You attach the propellers, remove the gimbal bracket for the camera and turn on both the remote control and drone (one short press and then a long one on each power button).
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Duru, the previous world record holder, created a hoverboard that's powered by propellers, and companies like Lexus and ArcaSpace have come out with more traditional hoverboards that fly closer to the ground.
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Several companies are already building prototypes of what's known as vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft that use a bunch of propellers to lift off vertically, eliminating the need for a runway.
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Electric motors replace jet engines, and vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, designed to avoid the need for long runways, have rotating wings and, in some cases, rotors in place of propellers.
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First was a welcoming ceremony of new employees (at peak a few dozen of them might attend), who were required to wear their "Noogler" beanies—colorful caps with plastic propellers on top.
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Delta Airlines will be testing the alpha version of the suit this month, where workers will use it to lift luggage, propellers, massive tires, or push heavy items out of the way.
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Heaviside uses its eight motors—six on the wings and two on a forward canard—to generate vertical lift, with the propellers angled downward, and horizontal thrust when they're facing the rear.
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PoolCandy's Splash Runner Motorized Inflatable Swimming Pool Lounger comes equipped with two 66-watt battery-powered propellers that will effortlessly transport you around the pool or lake, no kicking, splashing or flailing required.
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But for those who'd like to watch whole thing unfold live, fixed propellers and all, DJI will be streaming the event for all to see, starting at 11:30AM ET/8:30AM PT.
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There's also the standard DJI Fly More kit, which includes a bunch of extras, like two batteries, a multi-battery charging hub, extra propellers and a bag to carry all of that around.
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Because the diesel engine can thus operate at a constant speed, rather than having to track the needs of the propellers, this arrangement is a third more efficient than conventional oil-fired propulsion.
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The simulation, involving a 3D model of a DJI Phantom 3 quadcopter, revealed not only how air moves away from the propellers, but how it also interacts with the X-shaped craft's body.
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DJI lists a dozen in all, designed to help users avoid the spinning blades of doom, including one that shuts the propellers off when it detects that an object is getting too close.
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The design is premised on a mid-sized regional turboprop, using a typical existing airframe, control systems and propellers but adding in new battery technology and a 2-megawatt hybrid-electric propulsion system.
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When he fled, apparently taking the cross-Channel ferry from Newhaven, he had therefore jumped from the boat in mid-voyage, deliberately onto the propellers, so that his remains would never be found.
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Click here to view original GIFThere are endless documentaries that explain the clever technology that allowed World War I fighter planes to fire their machine guns through their propellers without hitting the blades.
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Click here to view original GIFBecause a thermite-blasting cannon isn't crazy enough, Colin Furze used a pair of motors and propellers designed for parasailing to build himself a fully functional flying hoverbike.
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"The propellers may be reconfigured at predetermined times during operation of an aerial vehicle, or upon sensing one or more operational characteristics or environmental conditions, as may be desired or required," Amazon said.
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Those who want the works can pic up the Mavic Pro Fly More Combo for $1,299, a bundle that includes the drone, two batteries, extra propellers, a shoulder bag, charging hub and more.
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What's most interesting about this particular drone are its wings: in addition to looking like a bird, the wings will flap, although it looks like it's actually powered by two sets of propellers.
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For the X-210, the NASA researchers are designing narrower wings that are efficient during cruise flight, powered by two 219-kilowatt electric motors at the wingtips that spin five-foot-wide propellers.
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Trilobites The ocean is loud: Ship propellers, sonar, oil and gas drilling and other industrial work make sounds, even if, like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, no one can hear it.
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Audio sensors can listen for the distinctive sound of a drone, but that method does not work well in urban areas, and a drone's sound signature can be altered by changing its propellers.
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But it said there were technical issues, such as with nuts on propellers, and extra time was needed for inspections which would have a negative impact on the readiness of the A400M fleet.
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This has multiple rotors mounted on the wings, which tilt up for a vertical take-off and landing, but tilt ahead to operate like a fixed-wing aeroplane with propellers for forward flight.
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Think, for example, of MoMA's Machine Art, organized by Philip Johnson and Alfred J. Barr in 1934, which fetishized anonymous products of industry, like airplane propellers and ball bearings, rather than their progenitors.
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About the size of an autorickshaw and equipped with four horizontal propellers, the drone-like prototype reached a height of 3 meters (10 feet) during the test in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on Monday.
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He makes the modern versions, 14 meter (46 foot) boats of eucalyptus and cypress, with a handful of colleagues, carefully constructing the engine and propellers, and using electric lathes to smooth the curved sides.
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In the shallow waters of the reefs, crews use the propellers of small boats launched from each mother-ship to smash the surrounding coral and thus free the clams anchored fast to the reef.
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Helicopter people were quick to criticize that if you shut off your engines, and the propellers are free to spin, you can execute a controlled descent, with the spinning blades providing some needed buoyancy.
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The drone arrives overhead with a roar, hovers for a moment, then lowers itself towards the green circle like a mantis, three sets of propellers churning the air into whorls of straw and dust.
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The propellers and arms on which they're mounted are generally pretty light and will break easily — compared with a battery weighing the better part of a kilogram, they won't add much to the damage.
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The propellers also attach with a new screwless locking mechanism that works a lot like the top of a medicine bottle: It screws on easy, and then to release it, push down and unscrew.
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The store's design was inspired by the seminal 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibition "Machine Age," which put industrially designed objects like springs, ball bearings and propellers in the context of an art museum.
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As the copter's propellers whirred overhead, in the shade cast by the old church's bell tower below, musicians of all ages hummed together, hunched over modular synthesizers, MIDI controllers, effects pedals, gongs, and more.
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At the same New Jersey laboratory where the first air-traffic control systems were developed, government researchers assessed the robustness of aircraft engines by catapulting freeze-dried bird corpses into their propellers or turbines.
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I can curb my enthusiasm for these rosacea propellers in some aspects, but I'm also not about to cease doing, drinking, and eating all the stuff I enjoy for fear of a flare-up.
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Maneuvering out of the muck could have been easy, but Mr. Caspers was concerned about doing any damage to the hull or propellers of a brand new boat that cost close to $4 million.
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The drone used in this month's test had backup propellers and motors, dual batteries and a parachute recovery system, to guard against catastrophe if one component encountered a problem 400 feet in the air.
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Like Blackfly, most of the new designs derive their motive power from arrays of electrically driven propellers, an arrangement pioneered by the small, "multicopter" drones that took to the air a decade or so ago.
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The trick is that the struts holding the front propellers are also aerofoils that provide lift during forward flight, meaning the drone combines the characteristics of a helicopter with those of a fixed-wing aircraft.
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Makers of submarine components such as reactor cores, big castings, and forgers of propellers and shafts would need five years to double production, said a congressional official with knowledge of the Navy's long-term planning.
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"I would say he got on the ferry and jumped off in the middle of the [English] channel in the way of the propellers so that his remains wouldn't be found," she told on ITV.
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With the sky still black, Commander Sanchez noticed that the sailor steering the ship was having difficulty managing the helm and the complex arrangement of throttles that controlled the power to the McCain's twin propellers.
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Yet when the sailor operating the throttles tried to slow the destroyer, he managed only to reduce power to one of the propellers, meaning only one reduced speed while the other continued at regular propulsion.
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The document dismissed "the belief in a presumed self-sufficiency of the markets, independent of any ethics," saying "it is clear that markets, as powerful propellers of the economy, are not capable of governing themselves".
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Plants like water hyacinth and water lettuce can clog navigation channels and tangle in propellers, but they are also natural filters that help clean all the pollution flowing out of farms, golf courses and neighborhoods.
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EDAT uses the four variable-speed propellers to function the same way a conventional tail rotor does, by adjusting airflow through the blades to both keep the fuselage steady and aim it in different directions.
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Technicians and engineers have been driving the truck down a dry lake-bed runway at this desert base at more than 70 miles per hour, the battery-powered propellers spinning as if a takeoff were imminent.
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Outside the confines of a controlled sensor-packed drone arena, this craft might not perform so well, but as a proof-of-concept, the craft proves that every drone doesn't necessarily require four propellers to fly.
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Then you simply attach the included propellers and wide-angle camera and send your plane into the sky, recording amazing footage as it cuts through the air at speeds of up to 3.03 miles per hour.
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The Hover Camera's spinning propellers are exceptionally loud — you won't be sneaking around with this little guy following you — for such a little flying machine, but like everything else about it, it's still being worked on.
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The plan calls for constructing a six-ton unmanned, remote controlled plane the size of a business jet with 24 spinning propellers embedded in its huge moveable wings that allow it to magically hover in midair.
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This forms the base for an avalanche of found objects — Szylak was seemingly obsessed with propellers and fans, American idols like Elvis, and particularly the type of blow-mold horses employed in bouncy toys for toddlers.
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The case snugly fits the drone, two batteries and some extra propeller blades, but it lacks room for the propeller guards, which are essentially bumpers that help prevent the spinning propellers from cutting people or objects.
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In order to make his own version work with the necessary motors â€" T-Motor F-40's with 4-inch propellers, according to the YouTube description â€" Woodworth needed to clear out some interior space.
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Examples: blackbirds that let vehicle tires crack their nutshells; mosquitoes that adapt life cycles for underground spaces such as subways; and survivor seeds that gained bigger propellers to land on tiny city dirt patches (National Geographic).
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They designed one of the smallest commercial-grade variable pitch propellers, which is common on turboprops and regulates aircraft speed by altering the angles of the propeller blades instead of revving the engine up or down.
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The replacement batteries have their own sets of propellers and motors and are designed to fly up and meet the larger drone and then touch down on the landing pad after the craft has stabilized itself.
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Looking at his Instagram account, however, reveals that he most likely built a duplicate of the shuttle out of paper so that it was light enough to take off with just three tiny propellers on the underside.
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Instead of warp engines and anti-gravity technology to keep it aloft, Spin Master's Air Hogs USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A uses the same propulsion technology that every other quadcopter uses: a set of four spinning propellers.
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Baxter drew inspiration for the monuments from two diametrically opposing sources: pre-colonial conch shell tools of the Tequesta people that previously lived at the mouth of the Miami River, and the propellers of post-Panamax ships.
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Robotics researchers at the Delft University of Technology wanted to create a flying platform that could imitate and test theories on how insects fly the way they do, but without tethers or non-animal propulsion like propellers.
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The money will be used to fund a range of trials on energy saving devices including on board waste heat recovery, "state of the art" propellers and rotor sails which use wind power to reduce fuel consumption.
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That's because while the $21 Skydio 2000 comes with a single battery, charger, USB-C cable, pair of spare propellers, and a quality custom-fit hardshell case, it does not come with a controller in the box.
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MIT says this robot will blend in with its surroundings and get closer to sea life than existing autonomous underwater vehicles, which often have to be tethered to a boat with a cable and have bulky propellers.
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"I would say he got on the ferry and jumped off in the middle of the channel in the way of the propellers so that his remains wouldn't be found," Lady Lucan said on ITV this year.
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The kids can design their robots to their hearts' content — adding wings, propellers and jetpacks to make them fly, and adding features like a camera (to take photos of interlopers) or voice recordings to make them more fun.
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Puertolas has three flightworthy drones in the basement workshop of his home: two QAV210 Charpu Editions (the number signifies the diagonal distance, in millimeters, between propellers) and the new QAV-X Charpu, which went on sale in July.
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With an arsenal that includes grenade-dropping drones, quadcopters (drones with four propellers), kamikaze and decoy bombers, and surveillance drones, ISIS now has "a new kind of reach," said Peter W. Singer of the New America think tank.
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Lego's official Apollo 11 anniversary set is pretty slick already, but aerospace engineer Adam Woodworth has made it even cooler by adding a set of propellers so that the lunar lander can actually fly, as spotted by Gizmodo.
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Back in May 2015, Lily's product debut video went viral after showing a drone with four propellers that could autonomously follow people as they snowboarded or kayaked, taking off straight from the water or landing in users' hands.
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Its prototypes, which also have a wingspan of 5.5 metres, are propelled into the air by catapult—though, like TwingTec's, they also have propellers to allow a controlled descent and landing once a tour of duty is over.
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That would have sped approvals for a slew of novel technologies necessary for the new class of aircraft, including tilting wings and propellers, electric propulsion, battery power, new aerodynamic configurations, and complex software to manage the tricky aircraft.
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As Roetter walks through the warehouse, he points to a cracked pontoon on the airframe that was sacrificed for crash testing and flicks a rotor as he explains that on the Flyer, five propellers spin clockwise, five counterclockwise.
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If you want more time, the batteries are swappable, and the company has made it possible to purchase its Fly More Combo (two batteries, a multi-battery charger and extra propellers, among others) at any time for $319.
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The EHang 216 "flying taxi" is still a prototype right now, but the hope is that the two-person vehicle becomes a commonplace cab in the sky, only with wings instead of tires and propellers instead of pistons.
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In a video that similar to those videos where humans push around ATLAS, researchers at Delft University of Technology have created a system that will let a quadrotor drone keep flying even if one of the propellers is broken.
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Drones already have terrible battery life since they have to power four electric motor-driven propellers that are trying to lift the drone itself, its aforementioned batteries, and a camera, as is the case with this DJI Phantom 4.
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The drone collection, which we first saw last year at Star Wars Celebration is finally shipping in quantity in the U.S. (and Canada), and it's not your run-of-the-mill Star Wars spaceship recreation with some propellers slapped on it.
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Even the propellers on the Nimbus 195 look like they can take a beating, since they're made from malleable plastic that bends on impact, instead of shattering, so they can simply be bent pack into place for the next flight.
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It's a good thing an expert like James was at the controls, because without any shrouding around the its propellers (to reduce weight and for maximum power) getting hit by an out-of-control 115 mph drone would be beyond painful.
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Using aluminum framing, eight propellers and sensors to fly — and cushioned by basketballs attached to the bottom of its frame — Cartivator's Sky Drive vehicle flew to eye level for several seconds before crashing back to the earth and suffering damage.
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He added that even if the steering had been compromised it would be possible for the McCain to outrun the tanker, and that some degree of directionality would be possible by changing the speed of the port and starboard propellers.
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The Aerigon UAV is a pretty heavy-duty drone that uses six propellers to lift up to 19 pounds, which means it has the strength to hold up a heavy-hitting camera like the Phantom Flex 13K without breaking a sweat.
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Sotheby's also notes that the car, which is nicknamed "Wet Nellie," features "a bank of four propellers" in the back of the vehicle that allow it to move underwater while being powered by electric motors within a water-tight compartment.
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But like an aircraft carrier after its propellers stop turning, much of the bureaucracy will stay in motion for a while, and some essential services, like the armed forces, the post office and entitlement programs, will not stop working at all.
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The Wingcopter costs seventy-five thousand dollars, but it can transport a payload of up to thirteen pounds across the water in about forty minutes, soaring along a preprogrammed flight path, before rotating the propellers and lowering itself to the ground.
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Voluntary efforts to turn down the volume are having an effect: The Port of Vancouver started the ECHO (Enhancing Cetacean Habitat and Observation) Program, asking mariners to reduce noise by having ships slow down and fix cavitation on the propellers.
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