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Default Indoor RC flight with peristaltic drive

Ladies and gentlemen...

[link=http://www.festo.com/cms/de_de/5890_6299.htm]The AirJelly[/link]

An indoor, RC flying jellyfish.

They claim (and, to be certain, I can't find any proof to the contrary) that this is the first airborne use of peristaltic motion as a drive mechanism.

Surprise, surprise...air really IS a fluid.