Jun 17 2008Chinese Firm Builds Identified Flying Object
Harbin Smart Special Aerocraft, a Chinese company, has built a prototype flying saucer. It took the company over 12 years and $4 million to make the thing, and that's not a picture of it. That's some art exhibit by Japanese artist Mariko Mori. It just happens to be the picture that came with the story since the flying saucer is still top secret or something. 4 feet in diameter, the propeller-powered flying dish can fly to over 1,000 meters, take off and land vertically, and go about 50MPH. The unmanned object can be programmed to fly a predetermined path or remotely controlled from allegedly great distances and was designed "for aerial photography, geological surveys, and emergency lighting." Alternatively, it could be used to play pranks on this poor dork.
Chinese company develops 'UFO': report [breitbart]
Thanks Mark and Melissa, you two want to go thirdies in on one?
Reader Comments
1. Chase - June 17, 2008 3:26 PM
FIRST BITCHES!!!!!!!!
2. Momboelitist - June 17, 2008 3:31 PM
Fake!!!!
3. mica - June 17, 2008 3:32 PM
Flight of the Navigator forever!!!!!!!!
4. Michael - June 17, 2008 3:33 PM
How exactly is it "Fake!!!"? Just because the story and picture don't go together does not make them "Fake!!!"
5. blp - June 17, 2008 4:23 PM
As soon as I saw the steps I thought "Flight Of The Navigator." Remember the first time watching that as a kid, the SFX were amazing and you had a crush on Sarah Jessica Parker then she grew up and Aghhhh damn, ugly stick!
6. JFreezy - June 17, 2008 4:43 PM
Give it a month before it is recalled because the cherry red paint on the exterior will contain enough lead to kill a drunk Geekologie writer. And that take's a lot of lead.
7. emily - June 17, 2008 5:14 PM
Looks like Matti Suuronen's Futuro House from 1968. Those Finns are always a step ahead! Assuming a step is 40 years.
http://www.kiasma.fi/site/img/kwpop/kuvat/futu_01.jpg
8. captainlaziness - June 17, 2008 6:50 PM
Hmmm... that picture looks like one of those horn things that you see around Thanksgiving time. You know, those things that are full of fruit and are used as a center piece. 'Cept this one must be from the future, 'cause it's silver.
9. Zippy - June 17, 2008 9:18 PM
Top secret, huh? No pictures? I bet Dennis Kucinich has seen it!
10. Dan - June 18, 2008 5:26 AM
that looks like the head of a giant golf club! LAME!
11. Earl Hunting - June 18, 2008 12:21 PM
That picture is an art exhibt..saw it in Venice Italy in 2005, my ex worked the exhibit when I was visiting, it takes 3 people at a time, put electrode thing-a-ma-bobs on their heads and takes their brain waves and creates 'art'...your mood makes different color and shape blobs and as you change thoughts the colors merge and they're projected on the wall in front of you, and they give you a piece of paper to understand what you are thinking/seeing...blah blah blah...its a Jeffrey Deitch funded project...blah blah blah
12. rammjet - June 19, 2008 8:52 AM
1. That is not the correct picture.
http://dvice.com/archives/2008/06/chinese_company.php
2. Sikorsky already did this better in the 1990's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Cypher
13. Sasha - June 19, 2008 6:13 PM
Bullshit. "Flying saucer" aircrafts have been around for a long time now. One of my professors used to work on them when she worked for NASA.
14. r - June 23, 2008 2:44 PM
Moriko Mori used this in her sculpture that was on dislay in NYC sony center