Toyota-backed SkyDrive's SD-05 multicopter has achieved stable flight at 100 km/h (62 mph), proving its wingless design ...

The first man in the world to achieve a manned flight of an electric multicopter recently unveiled a tandem wing aircraft prototype, describing it as an eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing ...

Thomas Senkel of the German company e-volo recently became the first to pilot an interesting craft – a so-called electric multicopter with 16 rotors. With a single seat placed in the center of those ...

The flight took place at an airstrip in southwest Germany, and lasted one and a half minutes. Thomas Senkel, a physicist and designer/builder of the multicopter, piloted the aircraft from a ...

ln recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) have become widespread in a wide range of fields, from industrial use such as agriculture, infrastructure inspection and disaster investigation, to ...

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 22 (UPI) --A Swedish engineer shared video of his successful test flight in a homemade "multicopter" powerful enough to lift him several feet off the ground. Inventor Axel Borg ...

[amazingdiyprojects] has been making lots of test flights in his crazy eight propeller gasoline powered danger bucket. We last covered the project when he had, unfortunately, wrecked the thing in a ...