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Re: pic: Autonomous Aircraft

Actually this one does pretty much the same thing. Although currently it doesn't deliver the robot through a window, but onto the ground to take soil samples. I do not know when this aircraft was purchased but I think it was previous to 2008.

you can just see the gimbaled camera under the nose, and the pipe on the back landing gear holds cameras used for stereo vision mapping. This was during field trials where the heli flew with a 35lb weight that was lowered 15m and the dynamics of the system recorded as the heli flew around.
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