The Cold War: Peculiar Inventions That Stretched Human Imagination

Flying Ant

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The Scaled Composites Model 281 Proteus actually has nothing to do with ants even though it looks like one. Its design was actually meant to get it to ultra-high altitudes to test high altitude telecommunication relays in the 90s. This model was able to fly at around 65,000 feet. That’s double the altitude of a passenger jetliner.

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