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It ’s like Inception , but with UAVs : the guys at Flite Test recently sought to redefine ‘ overkill ’ byusing four remote control - controlled aircraft to return one stick of glue . Because skill .

The Flite Test crew were trying to further the drone - delivery - system musical theme that ’s become popular since Google ’s Project Wing and Amazon’sinfamous Prime Air concepts , but using more of a ‘ mothership ’ hypothesis : one aircraft does the long - distance escape , and then pass over to increasingly little lagger as there ’s a need for increase manoeuvrability .

In theory , it ’s far from a terrible idea : a cock-a-hoop , fixed - wing aircraft does the farsighted - aloofness traveling stuff , and then drops a nimble quadrotor to return the final software . Admittedly , using four drones to deliver a single marijuana cigarette of gum — like the cat in the video — probably is n’t quite economically workable , but at least it ’s a cool test copy of construct . As long as you ignore the drone - software system falling off the large plane . Twice . [ FliteTest ]