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André Franquin was ahead of his time (lemmy.ml)
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RC model of Zorglup' (europe Zyklotrop) aircraft of Spirou & Fantasio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IAbTzaiQBo

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder if there were already some early prototypes he could have drawn inspiration from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unlikely. They knew already from such devices about balancing issues. Nowadays no problem but back then they had neither the sensors nor the mobile computing power for auto-balancing.