A Chinese research team has flown what it calls the world’s first fixed-wing drone built largely from bamboo. The tilt-rotor UAV took off from a field in Tianjin, climbed, transitioned to forward flight, and came back down on its own rotors, as reported by China Daily. More than a quarter of its airframe is made from a bamboo-based composite the team developed in-house. The aircraft is reportedly 20% lighter than a comparable carbon fiber build,…
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