microflyer

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ flyer

Noun

microflyer (plural microflyers)

1. An extremely small aircraft that is typically used for surveillance.
   • 1997 February 23, Mark Prigg, “Microplanes take shape”, in Sunday Times:

     Spy planes that are small enough to fit in the hand could be taking to the skies within three years. Called microflyers, the planes will have a wingspan of about 15cms and weigh less than 100 grammes.

   • 2008, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Bio-inspired Flying Robots, →ISBN:

     The 10-gram microflyer demonstrated autonomous operation using only visual, gyroscopic and anemometric sensors.

   • 2013, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Raul Jose Martin-Palma, Engineered Biomimicry, →ISBN, page 119:

     The ability to hover as well as fly efficiently at low speeds is crucial for a microflyer designed for indoor surveillance. Accordingly, a loarge amount of research has been focused on rotary-wing and flapping-wing microflyer configurations.

   • 2014, Esmaiel Jabbari, Deok-Ho Kim, Luke P Lee, Handbook of Biomimetics and Bioinspiration, →ISBN, page 574:

     The interpolation image algorithm (I2A) combined with a 1D camera array have been used onboard an indoor microflyer.