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 ...

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 ...

It’s going to be hard finding a cooler use of AI than fully-electric flying multicopters that autonomously carry people around cities on demand. It’s Volocopter’s 2X, which is basically a giant drone ...

It had to happen, and it was almost certainly going to be in Germany. Congratulations have to goto the team at e-volo they have possibly created a new manned flight platform, the first for many years.

Sky-Hopper, a company that aims to provide an affordable, efficient manned multicopter to the public, is Peter Dobber’s passion project. Having graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science ...

We have to be impressed by [amazingdiyprojects] who completely totaled their manned multi-copter build, which has been spanning over eight videos. He explained the crash in video number eight and is ...

[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 ...