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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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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.