Thursday, August 2, 2012

US Military Shoots Down Dark Knight's Flying "Bat" Idea

The Dark Knight Rises
The Bat flying vehicle flies through Gotham's urban canyons in the Dark Knight Rises.
CREDIT: Warner Bros.

When the Dark Knight rises to defend Gotham once more, he literally takes to the skies in a flying vehicle known simply as the Bat. The new nonlethal weapon in Batman's arsenal can hover like a helicopter and pull off aerial maneuvers worthy of "Top Gun" fighter jets — a combination that may seem almost too good to be true.
That amazing spectacle should come as no surprise in a Hollywood film about a billionaire superhero with access to top-secret military technology. But making the Bat fly in today's reality would prove a lot trickier, said Mitchell Burnside Clapp, a program manager for the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).


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