{"id":1574,"date":"2015-08-03T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T17:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2015-07-27T21:08:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T04:08:19","slug":"3d-printing-takes-on-uavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/?p=1574","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing Takes on UAVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creating an unmanned aerial vehicle or UAV is not a new concept, but when the UAV is printed and can be assembled without using any tools, that is new indeed. With a wingspan of one and a half meters, this UAV made in the UK can cruise at a speed of 93 kph.<\/p>\n<p>Called the SULSA, the UAV was successfully tested from a Royal Navy Warship, HMS Mersey and landed on Chesil beach in the Wyke Regis Training Facility in Weymouth after flying about 500 meters. It had on board a camera to record its flight and researchers monitored the UAV from a control van using the visual clues from the camera.<\/p>\n<p>The UAV was used As part of Project Triangle to demonstrate that it could be easily launched at sea and used successfully in a maritime environment. The UAV was printed at the University of Southampton after extensive designing and research.<\/p>\n<p>It is the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first completely printed aircraft and received a positive reaction when it landed on Dorset Beach after a short flight. Needless to say, that this <a href=\"http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?Edible-Home-School-Science-Experiment---Homemade-Ice-Cream&amp;id=2341816\">science project<\/a> has a lot of potential uses in both the commercial and military industries. It will be interesting to see how it is developed further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating an unmanned aerial vehicle or UAV is not a new concept, but when the UAV is printed and can be assembled without using any tools, that is new indeed. With a wingspan of one and a half meters, this UAV made in the UK can cruise at a speed of 93 kph. Called the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}