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Flying fish spy plane
Flying fish UAV spy plane
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I suggest designing a submarining, video and audio equipped UAV that looks and acts like a flying fish. It could be used to investigate ports, war ships, topless beaches, etc.

Sunstone, May 26 2008

Flying fish 45 second flight http://news.bbc.co....ci/tech/7410421.stm
Flying fish 45 second flight [Sunstone, May 26 2008]

Flying Fish UAV, U Michigan, 2008 http://www.engin.um...ts/flying_fish.html
Here you go. [jutta, May 26 2008]

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       That'd work great, except for places where flying fish are attention-grabbing oddities, and places where people expect you to halfway invent something instead of just suggesting that someone else do all the work. Spy bots that mimic animals are certainly thought of, and chances are good that somebody else will think of mimicking a flying fish. They may decide that a splashing, sparkling, zipping thing that only gets a foot above the water isn't as good as a slow, stealthy sub with a periscope, or a birdlike thing that really flies.[-]

baconbrain, May 26 2008
  

       [baconbrain] so you want "I suggest designing" changed to "Build"

FlyingToaster, May 26 2008
  

       No, I want "I suggest designing" changed to "An UAV could be made to mimic a flying fish if it used a little water propeller on the end of a long flex shaft."

baconbrain, May 26 2008
  
      
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