“World’s First Spherical Flying Machine”!!!

This is the world’s first spherical flying machine developed by research department Japanese Ministry of Defense and this machine hover like a helicopter and take off and vertically. It works like a propeller plane stand in vertically and it can fly forward at high speed with using wings which the helicopter can’t do. This machine has three gyro sensors which hit by an obstacles, it can maintain its habitude and keep flying through automatic control.

Because the exterior is round and this machine can land in all kinds of attitudes and move along the ground. It can also keep in contact with a wall while flying. Because its round, it can just roll along the ground but to move it in the desired direction, we’ve brought the control surfaces, which are at the rear in an ordinary airplane, to the front.

 In horizontal flight, the propeller provides the propulsive force, while the wings provide lift. The spherical shape flying drone weighs about 350g and has a diameter of 42cm nad is constructed from commercially available parts. And for the machine to take off or land in that state it faces upward and when it does so, the propeller provides buoyancy. At that time, too, the control surfaces provide attitude control.

After landing, the machine moves along the ground using the control surfaces and propeller. In their aircraft R&D, they have a plane that can stand up vertically after flying horizontally. But the problem with that plane was take-off and landing is very difficult. As one idea to solve that problem, they thought of making the exterior round or changing the method of attitude control.

 That’s how they came up with this making, to test the idea. All they’ve done is build this from commercially available parts, and test whether it can fly in its round form. So its performance as such has absolutely no significance. But they think it can hover for eight minutes continuously and its speed can go from zero. When it’s hovering, to 60 km/h.

This impressive machine is made of spare parts that cost just US$1,400 in total with that we can get airborne speeds topping out at nearly 40 miles per hour and stability backed up by three on-board gyros that keep the thing aloft even when it runs into objects.