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Airicist
13th June 2013, 20:38
Developer and manufacturer - AeroVironment Inc. (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?2376)

Nano Hummingbird or Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Nano_Hummingbird) on Wikipedia

Airicist
13th June 2013, 20:38
https://youtu.be/96WePgcg37I

AeroVironment's Nano Hummingbird - Outdoor Indoor Flight

Uploaded on Feb 16, 2011


AeroVironment Develops World's First Fully Operational Life-Size Hummingbird-Like Unmanned Aircraft for DARPA

Airicist
13th June 2013, 20:39
https://youtu.be/xolH02Zba04

AeroVironment's Nano Hummingbird UAV - Without Landing Gear

Uploaded on Feb 18, 2011


AeroVironment Develops World's First Fully Operational Life-Size Hummingbird-Like Unmanned Aircraft for DARPA

Airicist
4th December 2014, 22:04
https://youtu.be/uLqy_ZZvsYk

Female Anna's Hummingbird at 240fps

Published on Dec 4, 2014


This video isn't perfect, but I thought it was too awesome not to share. When I was walking to lunch the other day in San Francisco, I encountered an absolutely fearless hummingbird. At one point, she hovered about 3 inches from my face. When I realized she was going to hang around for a moment, I grabbed my phone.