Monday, February 11, 2008

Holy cow! A plane that looks like a chopper!

This is bloody interesting stuff - a aircraft that looks like a helicopter with wings, is designed to copy what a helicopter does most of the time - slow flight with great visibility. This here:

Is an aircraft with awesome visibility that will fly at 65 kt for over 7 hours!!!!

2 comments:

Evan said...

It looks like the Seabird has a British ancestor (Wikipedia Entry for the Edgley Optica)

Chris Nielsen said...

Thanks for that Evan - I have heard of the Optica, and when I looked at the wiki for it, it looks very familiar! I must have seen something about them before..