Firstly, for those of you who care about these things:
> Eurocopter manages to pair down the blade-vortex interaction
> ......................^^^^
That should be "pare".
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Secondly, a link to an article about this in Wired was posted two days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1154340
That same Wired article is pointed to by this PopSci article.
Thirdly, this PopSci article also points at a GizModo article, which appears to be where it got all its information and its photo (link below)
Fourthly, it's not "silent." The articles it rips off get this right, stating that it's just much quieter. No, PopSci has to exaggerate as link-bait.
So in short, it's a complete rip-off of primary sources without adding extra information, it got its grammar wrong, and it exaggerated. Go to the original sources:
</grammar_nazi>
Secondly, a link to an article about this in Wired was posted two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1154340 That same Wired article is pointed to by this PopSci article.
Thirdly, this PopSci article also points at a GizModo article, which appears to be where it got all its information and its photo (link below)
Fourthly, it's not "silent." The articles it rips off get this right, stating that it's just much quieter. No, PopSci has to exaggerate as link-bait.
So in short, it's a complete rip-off of primary sources without adding extra information, it got its grammar wrong, and it exaggerated. Go to the original sources:
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/eurocopter-moves-one-st...
http://gizmodo.com/5481081/the-blade-that-would-make-helicop...