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OFF TOPIC => WORLD NEWS => Technology => Topic started by: AlanHo on April 12, 2016, 03:14:07

Title: First Flight of Volocopter
Post by: AlanHo on April 12, 2016, 03:14:07

I can't see this being more than a novelty.

Perhaps Jamie has an eye on one.

:link: Volocopter that ?could replace the car? flies with passenger in test | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3528834/Watch-manned-flight-personal-drone-18-rotors-Volocopter-replace-car-flies-passenger-groundbreaking-test.html)

http://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/volocopter-human-test-flight-2016-4 (http://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/volocopter-human-test-flight-2016-4)

Title: Re: First Flight of Volocopter
Post by: diablo on April 12, 2016, 03:54:10

Hasn't this sort of thing been touted as the big new thing since the fifties?  Nah, I don't thing these machines will take off. :)

Title: Re: First Flight of Volocopter
Post by: Dazzler on April 12, 2016, 05:28:28

The footprint looks too big for general use...

Title: Re: First Flight of Volocopter
Post by: eye30 on April 12, 2016, 07:12:27

Size of the rotas be a problem finding a suitable takeoff/landing area

Title: Re: First Flight of Volocopter
Post by: FatBoy on April 12, 2016, 07:53:37

It would be interesting to see how this this would autorotate. It doesn't look as though it would be able to do that. I'll keep turning dinosaurs into noise, thanks all the same.


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Title: Re: First Flight of Volocopter
Post by: Dazzler on April 12, 2016, 11:12:04

Quote from: eye30 on April 12, 2016, 07:12:27

Size of the rotas be a problem finding a suitable takeoff/landing area

That's what I said...  :whistler: