Manned multicopter

Look closely at his control mechanism... yes, it's a R/C transmitter!

Damn clever bit of engineering though...

[Edited on 1/11/11 by David Jenkins]

That's amazing, hell of an achievement. When is the Haynes book out

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Wonder how much sixteen of those little motors cost........

I'll have mine with some longer legs on it so I can sit underneath away from the shredder blades please

Ha ha, you've all fallen for the oldest trick in the book. It's obvious to any half intellegent soul that all the people in that clip are only 8" tall, and they're using a toy multi-copter. Durrr!

Love the fact that it's perched on a space hopper!!!

But what a brilliant bit of kit - have to say i wouldn't fancy sharing space with all those whizzy blades tho' - one bird strike & you're sitting in a blender!!

What a waste of time.. why not stick with what we have that works OK??

You could use the same argument for climbing Everest... you do it because you can!

The main thing is that it is probably a hell of a lot easier than flying a 1-man helicopter - certainly my R/C multicopter is far easier than the equivalent heli (I'm still good at crashing it, though).


[Edited on 1/11/11 by David Jenkins]

Actually its quite an advancement on what we have at the moment...

There are only 16 moving parts.... do you have any idea how many moving parts there are in a conventional helicopter?!
No transmission losses.....
More efficient- No lift wasted in counter-torque (tail rotor)
As above, its more inherintly stable given that it is microprocessor controlled....

If we could just find a suitable powersource....



I recon (provided you are reasonable with software development) that you could build something like that for under £1000.... Pretty good considering...

[Edited on 1/11/11 by tegwin]