Pentagon Contractor AeroVironment Developed World’s First Hummingbird Spy Drone

Five years and $4 million later, AeroVironment has developed what it calls the world’s first hummingbird spy drone. Matt Keennon, program director at AeroVironment, demonstrates a tiny, drone aircraft known as the ‘nano-hummingbird,’ during a briefing at the company’s facility in Simi Valley, Calif., Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. With a 6.5-inch wing span, the remote-controlled [...] continue reading the breaking news