Blackbird: The homemade drone that hit nearly 700km/h (newatlas.com) 5 points by asdefghyk 4mo ago ↗ HN
[–] asdefghyk 4mo ago ↗ Meet Blackbird: The homemade drone that hit nearly 700km/h https://newatlas.com/drones/biggs-blackbird-411mph/Melbourne engineer Benjamin Biggs designed, built and flew the world’s fastest drone. It flies at more than half the speed of sound.Mu original link, but paywalled link..... https://www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-australian-magazine...
[–] ggm 4mo ago ↗ If he was willing to make it single use and didn't care about thermal runaway he could do better.Missiles only have to fly once.
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 17.5 ms ] threadMelbourne engineer Benjamin Biggs designed, built and flew the world’s fastest drone. It flies at more than half the speed of sound.
Mu original link, but paywalled link..... https://www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-australian-magazine...
Missiles only have to fly once.