Multirotor Super Drone

The high-tech equivalent of attaching helium balloons to a lawn chair. Except it doesn't work as well.

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Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 05, 2015
Category: Inventions | Air Travel and Airlines

Comments

Now that you've done that it's time to move onto something useful; like, maybe, unmeltable ice cream.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 09/05/15 at 10:47 AM

If you want to fly like that try an Ultralight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqT0GnDQbCs
Years ago my brother-in-law's uncle used to have one and bil flew it too. Don't know what happened to it but they quit doing it a long time ago too. Oh, and it actually got their asses off the ground, in the air and moving around significantly.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 09/05/15 at 12:57 PM

He seemed to do fine till he exceeded the ground effect, the height of one half of the rotor the blade (plane) length. But men will be boys when playing with big complicated toys. The swarm noise forced me to turn off the sound quickly.

Posted by Gator Guy on 09/05/15 at 08:59 PM

Complicated is right, it looks like a Tim Allen 'more power ' thing and it failed the same way too. :lol:

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 09/05/15 at 10:19 PM

On the plus side he now owns the world's worst leaf-blower.

Posted by tadchem on 09/07/15 at 02:57 PM

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