14 DAY TRIAL // Usually, if someone asked me if I wanted to buy an actual, fire-breathing dragon, I would wonder when fairy tales had come to life, or dismiss them as mad depending on how persuasive they are. But robots change everything.
A man named Rick Hamel has created a green, robotic dragon that not only flies (being made of glass and plywood).
Well, technically he created it two years ago, but the dragon is now for sale at the brain-slaying price of $60,000 / €43,600. You'll find it on Hammacher Schlemmer website.
It has all the steering points of a standard airplane (elevators, ailerons, rudder) and should be able to fly for 10 minutes, with an exhaust gas speed of of 500 mph (804.7 km/h). A mini turbine engine in the chest provides the thrust (you have three guesses to figure out where the thrust comes out).
The wing span of the dragon is of 2.7 meters, or about nine feet.
Jet aircraft fuel or kerosine can be used as fuel, and the reason the thing can fly for more than 10 minutes is because the tank is of just half a gallon (1.9 liters or so).
As you might have guessed, a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi remote is used to control the wood and glass beast from afar (layers of epoxy glass for the exterior, internal structures of high-grade plywood for the insides).
