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Pentagon Clears Flying Car Project for Take-Off 
Wired News | by Noah Shachtman | Thu, Nov 13
Darpa hopes its "Personal Air Vehicle Technology" project, announced yesterday, will ultimately lead to a working prototype of a military-suitable flying car -- a two-to-four passenger vehicle that can "drive on roads" one minute, and take off like a helicopter the next. The hybrid ma...
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Video: Pentagon’s Robo-Hummingbird Flies Like the Real Thing
Military-backed researchers have built a tiny drone that looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. So far, the mock bird, built for Pentagon mad science division Darpa, has only stayed aloft for twenty seconds at a time. But that short flight w...
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