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Historic Mars helicopter test flight set for early April – Sight Magazine
NASA engineers plan to send a miniature helicopter whirring just above the surface of Mars next month in an interplanetary aviation experiment that, if successful,…
28 March 2021
STEVE GORMAN
Los Angeles, USReuters
NASA engineers plan to send a miniature helicopter whirring just above the surface of Mars next month in an interplanetary aviation experiment that, if successful, would mark the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another celestial body.
The US space agency is comparing the Martian debut of its 1.8-kilogram solar-powered whirlybird, dubbed Ingenuity, with the Wright Brothers’ first sustained flight of a motor-driven airplane near…
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