An AH-64 Apache helicopter crashes into the ground after performing a fiesler-like maneuver at low altitude over the troops in the mountains of Afghanistan. Luckily no one was killed.
Culture Buzz It looks like the dramatic last moments of a Transformer who has lost his will to live.
How to land a chopper on a near-vertical slope. Don't try this at home or you will probably break your helicopter.
Flyfire is a project by some MIT folks that aims to “transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive environment”. They use tons of tiny helicopters with small LEDs to create some pretty cool pictures and effects. I want, like, 200 of these. Read more about it here.
Butterfingers! Ha, of course not, this is serious science. NASA should open a theme park, because that just looks fun. [ via Boing Boing, who explain the sciency bits ]
Based on this Helicopter Theory, the new Terminator movie is going to suck. I'd refute this theory if I could, but: it's a chart, which is like math, which is always right. :(