Aircraft with remote control has ceased to be an outlandish technological innovation. Hundreds of different copters of all sorts of colors and configurations long ago sold in any store, and a professional “flying detachment” and their owners and does participate in the steep competition. With the help of drones with remote control perform different stunts and make fashionable your aerial photography and video, but the aircraft themselves are becoming more clever and cool. But it seems that among them will soon be a kind of “downshifters”, minimalistic drone gadgets that do not require registration, serious bells and whistles and carbon fiber housing for hundreds of dollars. Yes, we are talking about simple paper airplanes… Well, almost.
Not so long ago appeared unusual Kickstarter project called POWERUP DART. Its author was a former pilot, and now decided to deal with the invention of cool and fashionable gadgets, and therefore came up with a miniature paper airplanes on wire frame, which can cut through the air running smartphone with a special app, but also able to give really cool tricks.
Therefore, to start doing “barrels”, “dead loop” and many other bells and whistles in the air does not have to be a professional, just get yourself a couple of sets for creating paper airplanes. They quickly charged, can fly at speeds up to forty miles an hour, and almost impossible to break and they don’t require registration because of its small size.
A starter kit, which consists of a mechanical module and two stencils, you can buy for only 29 dollars, and the most abrupt, consisting of a whole heap of stencils and various additional pieces will pull already for a couple hundred bucks. Every airplane is “locked” by performing certain stunts and has its own unique features, so buy a couple of different options will not be excess.
Until the end of the campaign only two weeks, but the authors of the project have already collected is necessary 25 thousand dollars to almost a million. Think it’s really going to fly.
DART POWERUP: a paper airplane-stunt
Vyacheslav Larionov