According to the foreign media business insider, a British engineer named Nigel Gifford is making disposable, edible drones called "Pouncer." Gifford is known as the creator of the Facebook drone Aquila.
Yes, you didn't get it wrong. He did say that the drone he designed was "ready to eat". In fact, this kind of drone was designed specifically for delivery of food in humanitarian relief.
Pouncer concept map
Composition of Edible PouncerIt is reported that the Pouncer wing will be made of food (it has not yet been decided what kind of food), and the fuselage and wings of the cabin will also be filled with different foods. The rest of the structure will be made of wood and can be disassembled for food heating and cooking. At this point, the plane has been consumed, and there is almost no leftovers.
Food came down from the sky, and Xiao Bian's brains filled it up, probably like the image below. . .
The general method of delivering food to the disaster area is for military aircraft to reach an altitude of about 5km and place food on a parachute to their destination. However, the accuracy of this method is not high. In March of this year, the UN World Food Project plans to put 21 packs of food into Syria’s Deir al-Zours, surrounded by ISIS, where there were 200,000 Syrian victims. However, the operation was unsuccessful. Four packs of food were destroyed and seven packs were landed away from the target group while another 10 packs were not found.
Gifford’s vision was to replace the parachute with a navigational Pouncer drone, and Pouncer itself was food and dropped directly to the affected area. This will not only solve the issue of accuracy but also increase the amount of food delivered each time.
Pouncer did not fly to its destination. Instead, it was dropped by another aircraft at an altitude of about 33km from the destination.
Next, a small navigation system and cardboard tail on the Pouncer will guide it to its destination within 10 meters of its diameter. This ensures Pouncer's accuracy at the destination.
Pouncer concept map
How did the idea come from?Initially, Gifford only wanted the drone to replace the parachute, so he ran to the UK's skydiving center and asked how high a winged pilot could glide.
Winged pilot
“She weighed 75kg and glided down at an altitude of 33km, so I suddenly realized that this principle is feasible and that this is the beginning of Pouncer,†said Gifford.
Then he thought of using food as drone material.
“I had a lot of trouble for my wife at home because when we went to the deli area of ​​the supermarket, I would bend Salami sausages to see if it was under tension. I think they should be good enough to be wing spars. ."
(Emm, with wings made of sausage, it's curious that it won't fall.)
Gifford knows very well that Pouncer still has a lot to go. If an aircraft is to obtain certification, it will need to go through a nine-phase system called the Technology Readiness Levels (TLR) system. Currently, Pouncer is in the fourth stage of the TLR. Gifford believes that in less than 24 months, Pouncer will reach TLR 9 and production will begin.
Background: Gifford is the creator of Facebook drones?Foreign media "Business Insider" first reported the news of Pouncer, the article opened with "He sold Ascenta to Facebook". In March 2014, Ascenta, a British drone and satellite company, was actually acquired by Facebook for $20 million and evolved into an amazing Aquila drone.
Aquila drone
It is unclear whether Nigel Gifford had held key positions in Ascenta. At the time of this merger and acquisition, an article in foreign media “Quartz†stated that according to LinkedIn data, Nigel Gifford served as “media liaison†for Ascenta, but when Lei Fengnet went to LinkedIn for verification, his resume There is no description of Ascenta's work experience.
It seems that regardless of whether or not he worked at Ascenta, Ascenta's work experience does not seem particularly significant to Gifford.
The most prominent of Gifford is his enthusiasm for skydiving. He is an avid adventurer of outdoor adventures. He has climbed Mount Everest five times and completed more than 1,000 parachuting. Most of the companies he works with are involved in skydiving tourism. He has been the general manager of Ozoneering since 2010. The description of Ozoneering's official website is a “virtual companyâ€. That is, the company does not have a fixed office. Employees communicate on a daily basis through a conference call and meet once every 3 months.
Ozoneering's current main business is to provide "information and display" for drones, artificial intelligence and other projects. The other is to develop drone components for the delivery of materials in the development of humanitarian aid.
Although the “ready to eat†drone sounds refreshing, this concept is a little too “bold.†Just thinking about making an airplane spatula with sausage and falling from a high altitude of 33km can not help but wonder about this technology. Feasibility. In addition, the technical details are not yet clear, the R&D team is unclear, and no reliable investor has been heard. This has to let Lei Fengwang (search for the "Lei Feng Net" public number concerned) save the drone of this "eating goods" property. There is some doubt.
Via Daily Mail
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