Best videos of 2012: New aircraft flies inside out

Joanna Carver, reporter

An unusual flying contraption comes in at number 3 in our best videos of 2012 countdown.

Who says you need wings to fly? A new aircraft propels itself by flipping inside out. Created by engineering company Festo of Esslingen, Germany, the device is inspired by inventor Paul Schatz's inverted cube.

It floats thanks to six identical prisms filled with helium. A tiny onboard computer, controlled by a smartphone on the ground, guides its trajectory in a given space.

For more about the contraption, check out the original article, "Flying object propels itself by flipping inside out". If you enjoyed this post, you might want to see a self-propelled nanorocket.

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