First flight of the 3-dimentional-transportation robot (3DTR) was successfully achieved on November 22, 2005. The 3DTR is consisting of flexible airfoil, twin micro turbo jet engine and a gravity center control unit. The 3DTR meets all the following requirement for safety ; touchable (without any propellers of rotors), low down rate as same as parachute (below 1m/sec), low stole speed less than 25km/h, multi way control system and so on. The most significant specification is a large payload up to 60kg. In this report, result of the first flight is reported.
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