Mechanical "nano" hummingbird comes to DC

AeroVironment plans to fly it's "nano hummingbird" at the DC Convention Centre next week as part of this year's AUVSI show.

For a preview of what you might see when the bird's chief developer, Matt Keennon (flying the bird in the picture above, and in the video below), takes to the radio control box at the show on August 16, 17 and 18, check out the video AeroVironment put together for programme funder DARPA at the end of the second phase of the project earlier this year. 

Click here for a feature article I wrote on the nano hummingbird in Flight International's primer on the big ticket news items for the show. 

DARPA has not said whether it will fund a third phase, where the bird would shrink in size and expand in capability.