Land Like a Bird

[Steve]

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-07/mit-glider-stalls-purpose-land-more-bird

Using computer algorithms, MIT researchers have designed a foam glider with a single motor on its tail that can perch like a bird. The work has implications for robotic planes, potentially allowing them to recharge their batteries by perching on power lines

 

[AdamZ]

It looks like it does that by pulling up and stalling?

 

[wabower]

I've been wondering for three weeks what you were practicing at the farm.

 

[EdFred]

Soooooooooo, we are going to start building runways with a 45 degree upwards slope to land these things?

 

[Barry Kessler]

You mean you're not supposed to land like that?

Uh oh.