The article i read this week was about the 18 rotor E volo personal helicopter prototype.Instead of pint-sized four-rotor aircraft good enough to experiment with swarm dynamics or to carry small cameras, German startup E-volo is building an 18-rotor model that can carry a human passenger. It's the latest attempt to realize the dream of the flying car. The VC200 is an electric "multicopter" with enough power to fly 15 minutes on a fuel engine with that will recharge its batteries to extend flying time to an hour.The company also has built a larger lightweight prototype, the VC1, that successfully carried a human ito the air- but it lacked any sort of housing for the pilot, flew only for about 90 seconds, and had primitive landing equipment in the form of an inflatable gymnastics ball. a 14 kilogram model called the VC25 that can carry a payload of 25 kilograms.So far It will cost 5,000$ euros to build.
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