Lovely story about a poor kid in rural China who sells exquisite models of Chinese planes for almost no profit

These aren’t drones per se, but I can help but post this story by Owen Churchill in Sixthtone , which exemplifies the DIY spirit. CHONGQING, Southwest China — Dismembered remote-controlled airplanes lie strewn across an unmade mattress: a motor glued crudely into an improvised wooden housing, landing gear fashioned out of a metal ruler, and sheets of foam advertising board that will become wings, fuselages, and flaps. This is the […]

 

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