3-D Printed Drones Could Fight Drug Trafficking at Sea

At first glance, it looks like someone forgot to put the cockpit on a plane. Twin engines give the 2Seas Project unmanned aerial vehicle speed and power, but between them, where a normal airplane would put a pilot, there is instead just a camera, attached beneath the wing and always facing forward. This drone, made mostly of 3-D printed parts, could as soon as 2015 use that camera to hunt drug traffickers in Europe’s North Sea.

By: Kelsey Atherton | July 01, 2013 | Popular Science

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