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The Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci in the late 1480s created a drawing of a single-seat helicopter, which, according to the author’s idea, should be propelled by a propeller. And already today, engineers from the University of Maryland have been able to build a similar design using modern materials, and it flies successfully. The novelty was called Crimson Spin.
Since 2019, engineers have been developing and testing the underlying technology through a design competition. Over the past year and a half, one of the team members, Austin Prete, has built his unmanned quadcopter drone. It is driven by a helical design based on da Vinci’s drawings. As part of the tests, the drone made several short flights, the w3bsit3-dns.com portal reports.
As the author of the project noted, da Vinci could not make his apparatus practically applicable. Renaissance building materials such as leather and wood are too dense and heavy to fly. The Italian genius had no access to aluminum, plastic, electric motors, batteries and compact energy sources that could power the device. Prete used new materials and modern computer control systems. They made possible the design of the propeller, developed by da Vinci.
Source: Rosbalt
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