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Chinese Company Makes ‘UFO’
June 17, 2008 10:48 AM
According to the AFP, a Chinese company has spent more than $4 million to develop a remotely controlled flying saucer that can hover up to about 1,000 yards and travel as fast as 50 mph.
The company says that saucer, which took more than 12 years to develop, could be used for aerial photography and geological surveys. But with satellites and remotely controlled drone planes with similar capabilities available already, perhaps the saucer is just a manifestation of that very human fascination with flying.
California-based company Moller has been in the personal flying vehicle game for years. In 1989, the company created the Moller Skycar M200X, which resembles this new flying saucer, but can hover only about 10 feet in the air. The newest version of the Skycar is expected to be available in the next three years, according to the company’s Web site.
Earlier this year, the world witnessed a Japanese man blast off in Italy in a homemade, one-man “flying chair” in a tribute to another great visionary: Leonardo da Vinci.
Click here to see a slideshow of the other creative ways humans have tried to take to the skies, without using a plane.
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