✈️🐟 Hybrid Hero: Denmark’s 3D‑Printed Drone That Flies and Swims

By Fly Guy 🧢🛠️

What happens when you give a bunch of bright students access to 3D printers, drone

parts, and a serious thirst for innovation? You get a flying fish with propellers—no joke. Over in Denmark, some clever students have pulled off what sounds like a sci-fi stunt: a 3D-printed drone that flies through the air and swims underwater. Yeah, you heard me—this thing does barrel rolls in the clouds and then dives headfirst into the deep blue like it’s late for a mermaid meeting.

Here at The Prop Stop, we love our FPV flips and our underwater treasure hunts with Claw-dia, but this kind of two-element tech is seriously next level.

✈️🚁🪸 One Frame, Two Elements

The drone is fully 3D-printed, which means not only is it sleek and sustainable, but you can replace parts without crying over cracked carbon fiber. With a waterproof frame, buoyancy calibration, and dual-mode thrusters, this baby transitions from bird to fish faster than Zoey chases a squirrel and a cat at the same time.

We’re talkin’ smooth landings, seamless transitions, and complete control whether it’s above the treetops or beneath the tidepools. It’s like if your Avata and Claw-dia had a brilliant little baby.

💡 Why It’s So Cool

• Dual-Environment Mastery: It’s built to adapt—which means future missions could

  include everything from coastal search-and-rescue to coral reef mapping without needing to swap rigs.

• Eco-Friendly Engineering: 3D printing cuts down on waste, which makes this drone not just amphibious—but ambitious.

• Educational Powerhouse: This wasn’t a corporate R&D lab. It was students. That means the next generation isn’t waiting around—they’re building the future with some filament and a fireproof idea.

🧠 Fly Guy’s Take

I gotta say, as someone who spends half his time above the waves and the other half chasing ghostly GoPros through springs and saltwater, I am here for this. This kind of hybrid drone could change the game for creators like us at Flying High in Florida—imagine the shots: a cinematic flyover of the Rainbow River that dives straight into an underwater tunnel without ever cutting the footage. Mic. Drop. (But don’t drop your controller, trust me.)

So keep your props sharp and your imagination sharper. The future of flight is wet, wild, and wonderfully weird—and we’re diving right in.

✌️ From the sky and sea,– Fly Guy