Using Drones to Make a Flying X-Wing from Star Wars

We all want to be Luke Skywalker on the trench run in an X-wing starfighter. With each passing day, we're getting closer to making that dream a reality. Rodger Cleye made this 5-foot long model as a part of that ongoing effort.

It's made of PVC pipe which is why it looks hollow. That was necessary because anything more would have been too heavy for the 3 drone motors that make it airworthy. Check it out in action:


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well, jupiter probably has a hundred or so moons, the 4 they mentioned were just the ones discovered by gallileo. i imagine uranus probably has a larger number then 4 as well... and i'm also fairly sure it's more then 4 times larger then earth. Earth is also an "inner planet", making four, not three.

And pluto is not a black hole.
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None of the sentences end with periods.
#2. uses the quotation marks incorrectly.
#3. "Jupiters' moons" should be: Jupiter's moons.
#8. Uranus has 27 moons, 5 of them are considered 'large' moons.
#10. Pluto is not a black hole.
#11. There are four terrestrial planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
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Jupiter has 4 moons now, but it also has plenty of room around it for new moons to be installed.
Neptune may or may not be blue (we aren't really sure), but it's definitely not always cold. In the summer it's just really chilly.
"Terra" was the first new Latin word to be added to their vocabulary since ancient times.
If you're from Corpus Christi, then your anus is, on average, 4 times larger than the anuses of other people, and your waistline is 8 inches larger.
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No.1 - Jupiter has 67 moons not 4
No.2 - The Gas Giants are Jupiter and Saturn only
No.3 - They are the Galilean Moons, not all of Jupiter's Moons.
No.4 - Galileo discovered the largest of Jupiter's Moons not all of them.
No.5 - Correct!
No.6 - Correct!.
No.7 - Correct! It was also the first planet discovered with a telescope.
No.8 - Correct!
No.9 - Correct!
No.10 - Pluto was reclassified as a Dwarf Planet not Black Hole.
No.11 - Correct!
No.12 - There are four, Earth is missing.
No.13 - Correct!
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