Now at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson.
Posted on 11/06/2011 5:28:18 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
It might look like as space hopper surrounded by model helicopters, but the 16-rotor E-Volo is an entirely new kind of helicopter - which can hover motionless in the air without input from the pilot...
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2057423/Multicopter-1-man-flying-space-hopper-air-car-future.html#ixzz1cvmNCoK4
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And very broke as soon as the things start falling out of the sky and killing hundreds every week. The problem, probably unsolvable, is that gravity is not very charitable to people dropping from great heights. It doesn't have to be thousands of feet up in the air either. When the flying machine fails, there's no coasting to the side of the road.
Now at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson.
It’s like a scaled-up Hexacopter!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyYujjP5J-k
Probably GPS-stabalized in the same way to counter cross-winds.
LOL ... It almost looks like a giant alien being fired upon by a dozen helicopters, from some sci-fi movie ;)
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Just thought I'd ask.
I think it’s Rube Goldberg hokiness, battery-powered for the Snobby Elite and only flies for twenty minutes.
How about over the Occupy rioters while lighting and dropping M-80s.
Preferably ones coated glue and with hex nuts.
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