Cuban engineers’ dreams take flight with home-grown drones ...Middle East

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SAN NICOLAS DE BARI: Disguised as a sparrowhawk, and convincingly mimicking its predatory cry, a drone made of wood, scrap metal and plastic disperses birds at a Cuban airfield.From afar one could be fooled: soaring and swooping with its 1.3 m wingspan, the mechanical bird flies autonomously for an hour at a time, and boasts impressive, if somewhat stiff plumage.It is the creation of a group of engineers keen to develop cheap, local alternatives to foreign-made technology on the communist island under US sanctions since 1962.80% of the mechanical bird is fashioned by hand — mainly in makeshift workshops set up at the homes of individual engineers, who largely have to make do with the most ba

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