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UFL - Unidentified Flying Lawnmower watch!

revver.com — Its a bird. Its a plane. No, its a ... lawnmower! Not sure how aerodynamic it is ... but it is airborne, and it can do tricks. Video also shows a flying race car, tank, and witch.

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  • jquipp, on 04/02/2008, -0/+22This is about as un-aerodynamic as it gets. Its really amazing they can still make it fly.
    • dougmc, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2With enough thrust, anything will fly.
    • roosterjm2k2, on 04/02/2008, -1/+8Actually, it's quite aerodynamic ... its nothing like a real lawn mower unless you see it from the side

      Its not a bad model (its twitchy as hell, and likes to span roll for no reason at high speed) ... but the people that make it are assholes, they are the patent/tm/(c) trolls ofthe rc world
      • Terr01, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2Yeah, this is pretty old. Look at 20 seconds in, you can see that it's really a sort of box-kite that happens to look like a mower from the sides.
      • cawpin, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1Buried for the ridiculous commercial cut at the end.
  • rogerdonaldson, on 04/02/2008, -0/+20Cute, I love the "oops, I fell down" angle, like something from Okie vaudville.
  • muscles68, on 04/02/2008, -5/+3I repair garden machinery si=o i loved this one
    • colto, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3You've got it all wrong. si never equals o!
  • wisam74us, on 04/02/2008, -4/+3This lawnmower could do some acrobatic moves in the air that the F16 might not be able to do
    • Happy_Phantom, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2Let's militarize it and bring more mayhem and death down upon our enemies.
  • KnifeOrSpoon, on 04/02/2008, -4/+1WOW!!! I wonder if they used a mock fly-by-wire system and a gyro to keep the lawnmower level during that flight... But wow. I wonder if they could do a flying saucer or UFO =P
    • MWeather, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3Nope, no fancy tech, this design has been around for decades.
  • brexians, on 04/02/2008, -6/+0LOL
  • theAlice, on 04/02/2008, -0/+12Now they just need to team up with the BBC to create some real flying penguins...
  • wisam74us, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2I am not sure if I will buy it for my backyard or for my children to have some fun flying it :)
    • dougmc, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Your children had better know how to fly R/C before trying this -- it's not going to be an easy plane to fly.
    • aximbigfan, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1No, sorry.

      It may look like a toy, but it has a 10CC engine on it. That can chop fingers off just like THAT.
  • wild, on 04/02/2008, -2/+48If you know its a lawnmower, it ain't exactly unidentified, is it?
    • MWeather, on 04/02/2008, -0/+4But what brand is it?
      • jcundall, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1I was just about to write that too. You beat me to it by 9 minutes. Darn
      • Cowboy1015, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Hmmm... I wonder which brands of lawnmowers makes the flying ones.... let me check Home Depot.
      • DEADB33F, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Obviously it's a Flymo.
  • mdzarate, on 04/02/2008, -1/+7Shouldn't the tittle be: IFL - Identified Flying Lawnmower
  • DeskFlyer, on 04/02/2008, -1/+3http://www.flyingthingz.com/products/skycutter_gre ...
    • Snowspot, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2the z in the name is pretty extreme
  • 711Security, on 04/02/2008, -1/+20I don't get it. Grass only grows on the ground.
  • orangetiki, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2Love how they hid the wings in the body of the lawnmower. You only see it for a second, but you can see that the wings are the red part of the body. it isn't as thick as a normal lawnmower.

    Ha looks like jesus is out mowing his lawn again.
    • EnnuiStudent, on 04/04/2008, -0/+0Buried for reference to mythology.
  • DrywallThief, on 04/02/2008, -1/+9How is it unidentified if it's labeled as a lawnmower?
    • dafragsta, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2No tail numbers, obviously. C'mon!
  • floridiot2, on 04/02/2008, -2/+13I like this video better:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT60SkXN1UY
  • SmellyFingers, on 04/02/2008, -4/+7I have a Mexican cut my grass.
    • greenlight2001, on 04/02/2008, -3/+4Me too. Then they ship it up in bundles, hidden in the doors of old buicks.
  • CrudeDarkness, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3clouds that look like bushes no more.
  • TJ11240, on 04/02/2008, -1/+1Looks mildly dangerous.
    • dougmc, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3As it probably should. Similar flying lawnmowers have already killed ...

      http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/lawnmower.a ...

      To be fair, the same thing could have happened with any R/C plane, and people are occasionally hurt and killed by them. The risks can be minimized, however -- and it sounds like they weren't at Shea stadium that day.
  • Ch0chi, on 04/02/2008, -1/+1This is so badass
  • Joab, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Good ad's for the win
  • elliott9, on 04/02/2008, -1/+5I'll Digg is because it is awesome but its way old
    • blahtastic, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1I've seen the flying lawnmower video, but never the explanation/interview. I always assumed it was fake until now.
      • dougmc, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Certainly not fake. You've been able to buy a kit version of this for many years now, and it's not really particularly hard to build or fly. (Though to be fair, this style of plane is more difficult to fly than most.)
  • greenlight2001, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3Dugg for the laugh at the end of the video.
  • Yodan1, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1how the ***** can i close the ad?
    • jcundall, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2Well I pressed the little X on it. I'm a genius.
  • Cowboy1015, on 04/02/2008, -2/+1Unidentified Flying Lawnmower??? Is it like, initially, it cannot be undentified? But after 2 words, it was actually a lawnmower???

    Ok... Well here's a cool video ... http://youtube.com/watch?popular=lawnmower&action= ...
  • OrangeTide, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3ooooold. http://www.netaxs.com/mhmyers/rc.tn.html
    a Flying Witch, A Flying Stopsign (I know the guy who was making kits for this about 15 years ago), and a Flying doghouse.
  • felidaeus, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Im in ur mower cuttin ur clowds
  • borkus69, on 04/02/2008, -1/+0Old news, boring. Hobby shops have had this for sale for over a decade. Stick a huge model airplane engine on anything you want and include some control surfaces and you're done..
  • Lasereth, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2Super old but dugg because I LOL everytime I see it
  • BenKenobi88, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1It's like Garry's Mod in real life...throw some more thrusters on that thing!
  • feebie, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1...Cool?
  • scy1192, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1I remember in 4th grade (5 years ago), the tech/computers teacher showed us a video with an RC lawnmower, only put to "Cotton-eyed Joe"
  • Cheeseman1208, on 04/02/2008, -0/+5Thats some cutting edge technology.
  • dressedindecay, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2I loved when the guy pretended to be mowing the grass, fell down, and act surprised when the lawnmower flew away. These guys have a great sense of humor.
  • T101, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2So thats how they cut the grass on those floating platforms in mario.....
  • davidwasman, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Title Should be 'Identified Dupe Post'
  • jcundall, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1The new airmower from some crappy shop. Is your air uneven? Are you clouds too big? Then get off your ass and buy an airmower. The invention you've always wanted. And now half price, so hurry on down to some crappy shop while stocks last.
  • Zlorp, on 04/02/2008, -1/+1a birds worst nightmare
  • digger96, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Correction: Sky cutter
  • selphishnerd, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1This is an old video, but it's also mysteriously hilarious.
  • Almightymole, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1This is certainly a cut above the rest.
  • DrummerAndrew, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1I like the flying witch. That could be funny on halloween.
  • masonry01, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Hell, if they can make the Space Shuttle fly, and the F117, both with all the aerodynamics of a brick, fly, why not fly a lawn mower too!
    :-)
  • RSS14, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1They should make the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
  • mrsatan, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo old
  • jounin9988, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1modifying UFO to make stupid joke makes jesus cry.
  • brettbum, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1That will be useful for floating marijuana gardens in the sky.
    Its raining grass . . .
  • artscientific, on 04/08/2008, -0/+0I'd like to see it land on someone and fly away leaving 'em with a flattop haircut >
  • gojavago, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1I liked the flying witch the best! Everytime I see this I LOL!
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